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Poyner Spruill is a 115 attorney multidisciplinary law firm, with offices in Raleigh, Charlotte, Rocky Mount, and Southern Pines, North Carolina, giving it a statewide presence. The firm’s size enables it to foster individual attorney excellence in such diverse practice areas as bankruptcy, workouts, creditors’ rights, employment law, commercial real estate, employee benefits, banking law, venture capital, public utilities, health care law, governmental relations, environmental law, securities law, municipal law, construction law, white collar criminal defense, as well as trials and appeals in all state, federal and administrative courts and tribunals and alternative dispute resolution. The firm brings to bear the resources, talent and experience of all four offices to serve the needs of its clients. In addition, its reputation, size, and client base enable Poyner Spruill to effectively represent the national and regional interests of its clients.

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Paul A. Arena

Partner

Paul's practice focuses on acquisition, disposition, financing, development, capitalization and leasing of real property. He represents lenders and borrowers in real estate loan...

Christopher J. Ayers

Partner

Chris’ practice focuses on the representation of electric, telecommunications, gas, water, and wastewater public utilities. He also practices in the areas of environmental, land use...

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Haywood A. Barnes Partner Haywood’s practice focuses on the representation of banks, commercial finance companies and factors in a wide variety of commercial lending and factoring transactions, as well as in...	William T. Belcher Partner Bill practices in the areas of estate planning, estate administration, elder law, taxation and business transactions. He has substantial experience in a variety of trust and estate matters...
Christopher P. Brewer Partner Chris joined Poyner Spruill from the North Carolina Attorney General's Office where he served as Director of North Carolina's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit for 17 years. He is regarded...	H. Chalk Broughton, Jr. Partner Chalk assists clients and closely held companies with estate and succession planning issues. He advises individuals, families, and closely-held business owners on all aspects of their...
Nancy C. Brower Partner Nancy practices in the area of employee benefits and ERISA. She has significant experience designing and documenting retirement plans and executive compensation plans as well as providing...	Kenneth L. Burgess Partner Ken is a long term care attorney advising clients on a wide variety of legal planning issues arising in the skilled nursing facility setting, assisted living setting, and other spheres...

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Kevin M. Ceglowski

Associate

Kevin represents employers in many areas of labor and employment law, including race, age, gender, religion, national original, and disability employment discrimination claims, wrongful...

Michael S. Colo

Partner

Mike has more than 35 years of experience helping a broad spectrum of clients with complex mergers and acquisition transactions. He has extensive expertise in a wide variety of corporate...

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Craig G. Dalton Jr. Partner Craig practices in the areas of taxation and trusts and estates. He has substantial experience in estate planning for owners of closely held businesses and tax planning for closely held...	Thomas H. Davis Jr. Partner Tom is a partner in the firm’s litigation section and has more than 25 years of experience in the litigation and arbitration of complex cases. Tom regularly represents property...
Hugh W. Davis II Partner Hugh practices in the areas of ERISA and Employee Benefits. He is currently representing corporations and other entities in the design and operation of retirement and welfare benefit plans...	H. Glenn T. Dunn Partner Glenn has over thirty years of experience over the full range of environmental law practice. He has represented cities, counties, developers, industries and lenders regarding compliance...
Joshua B. Durham Partner Josh’s practice is devoted entirely to litigation and trial work arising from commercial transactions. As part of his practice, Josh regularly represents businesses that are...

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J. Nicholas Ellis Partner Nick has been trying cases in the state and federal courts of North Carolina since 1987. He has served as lead counsel in jury trials in federal court and in 13 different counties in...	Steven B. Epstein Partner Steve’s litigation practice concentrates on product liability defense, trucking and vehicular accident defense, mass tort defense, plaintiffs' personal injury and wrongful death,...
Andrew Erteschik Associate Drew's practice is primarily a litigation and appellate practice spanning a wide range of business and regulatory disputes. He is a member of both the Litigation Section and the Land Use,...	Chad W. Essick Associate Chad primarily represents land owners, developers and local governments in state and federal court on a myriad of land-use and zoning issues including vested rights, constitutional matters...

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Martin G. Flyke Partner Representative Experience Lead counsel for agent bank in various multi-bank, syndicated transactions ranging in size from $75 million to $280 million. Lead counsel in representing...	Paul M. Fogleman Associate Paul focuses his practice on financial services and real estate law. He represents financial institutions, lenders, and real estate developers in commercial loan and...
Diane P. Furr Partner Diane practices in the areas of creditor’s rights and bankruptcy, workouts, banking and commercial law. She represents secured and unsecured creditors in Chapter 11 cases involving...

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Susanna Knutson Gibbons

Partner

Susie practices in the areas of employment compliance law, employment defense in litigation and administrative proceedings, and ERISA litigation. She regularly advises and defends clients...

Eugene S. Griggs

Partner

Gene has practiced in the employee benefits and executive compensation area for over 20 years advising public and private employers with regional, national and international operations...

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Julie W. Hampton Partner Julie represents general contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers in construction disputes involving collections, bonds, and liens. She also assists in the representation of individuals,...	Wilson Hayman Partner Wilson's practice focuses on Health Care Law, Appellate Law, Civil Law, and Administrative Law. Wilson has represented public and private hospital systems as lead counsel in the acquisition...
Shannon E. Hoff Partner Shannon focuses her pracrice in the area of Creditors' Rights a& Bankruptcy Law. She primarily represents creditors in bankruptcy cases as well as out-of-court workouts,...

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Elizabeth H. Johnson Partner Elizabeth’s practice focuses on privacy, information security, and records management. Her comprehensive, practical approach to privacy law is reflected by the diversity of her...	Keith H. Johnson Partner Keith’s practice centers on development or redevelopment of property, and the environmental, utility and land use issues that arise from development projects. He assists developers...
Samuel W. Johnson Partner Sam practices in the areas of Business and Commercial Real Estate Law. He has represented business entities in corporate and other entity structure, organization and capitalization issues,...

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David R. Krosner

Partner

Dave has extensive expericence in all aspects of business transactional work, including mergers and acquisitions and securities compliance under both the 1933 and 1934 Act. Dave has...

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Richard Q. Lafferty

Partner

Richard has almost 25 years of experience helping financial institution clients of all sizes (some spanning multiple states and countries) with a broad range of complex legal...

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James T. Martin Of Counsel Jim has more than 30 years of experience in the public and private sector representing clients in legislative and administrative matters before state and local governmental agencies and...	Kelsey H. Mayo Associate Kelsey's practice is focused in the areas of Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation. She works with public and private employers on all aspects of qualified and non-qualified...
Robert B. Meyer Partner Robert’s practice focuses on the representation of management in multiple areas of labor and employment law, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with...

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James M. O'Brien, III

Partner

Jim's practice spanstwo distinct but related practice areas: Corporate law and entertainment law. He is a corporate deal lawyer who represents many established and emerging...

Robert F. Orr

Of Counsel

Bob Orr, a former state Supreme Court justice and one-time Republican gubernatorial candidate, is a member of the Litigation practice group. Orr focuses his practice on general litigation...

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Kate Paradise Associate Kate's practice is focused in the areas of Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation. She assists public and private employers with the full range of qualified and non-qualified plans,...	Jennifer G. Parser Of Counsel Jennifer’s practice includes a broad range of immigration and labor and employment matters. She is a multi-lingual attorney able to handle all immigration matters, including H-1B...
Lynn C. Percival IV Associate Lynn's practice focuses on privacy, information security, and records management including compliance and risk associated with these areas. He assists in responding to security...

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Christopher H. Roede Associate Chris works primarily in the commercial real estate and collections area. He frequently works with secured lenders providing advice and analysis regarding troubled asset loans,...	Steven A. Rowe Partner Steve represents employers in a wide variety of employment matters in state and federal court and before the North Carolina Industrial Commission, United States Equal Employment Opportunity...
Laura Broughton Russell Of Counsel Laura has more than 13 years of experience as an advocate for employers. She concentrates her practice on providing effective counseling and compliance assistance to her employer...

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Stephanie L. Sanders Associate Stephanie has experience representing clients in a broad range of transactional matters. She is a member of the firm’s Corporate Law and Banking, Credit & Financial Services...	Pamela A. Scott Partner Pam represents businesses and professionals in administrative and civil litigation and appeals pertaining to a wide variety of regulatory compliance issues and professional licensure, as...
Steven Mansfield Shaber Partner Steve has spent his entire career in health law -- first with the North Carolina Attorney General's Office and, since 1985, in private practice. His clients range from large hospitals to...	John L. Shaw Partner John represents lenders, owners, general contractors, and engineers, subcontractors, suppliers and manufacturers involving public and private projects (commercial, institutional,...
William R. Shenton Partner Bill's areas of expertise include health and hospial law, civil litigation, and administrative law. His practice has involved advising and representing health care facilities and individual...	Deborah E. Sperati Partner Deborah practices in the areas of Creditors' Rights, Civil and Commercial Litigation, and Bankruptcy. She frequently represents creditors in workouts, foreclosures, collections,...
Eric P. Stevens Partner Eric focuses his practice on intellectual property law and commercial litigation. Eric has substantial experience representing clients in intellectual property litigation, including...	Lisa P. Sumner Partner Lisa is the Chair of our Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights practice group. Representative Experience: Represents secured and unsecured creditors, including creditors’ committees, in...

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Jill C. Walters Associate Jill joined the firm in September of 2008 and is a member of the Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy Section. She regularly represents creditors in United States Bankruptcy...	Thomas R. West Partner Tom has been actively involved in Administrative Law issues since 1986 when he was among the first five people appointed to serve as a North Carolina Administrative Law Judge....
Danielle Barbour Wilson Associate Danielle’s practice is focused in the areas of Litigation and Employment Law. She represents employers in a wide range of employment and labor issues. She also assists with commercial...	David L. Woodard Partner David practices in the area of employment litigation. He regularly advises and defends clients in race, age, disability and sex discrimination and harassment cases; reviews...

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