Practice(s): Business Litigation, Securities Litigation Born: Asheville, NC, 1951. Admitted to bar: 1976, North Carolina. Education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (A.B., 1973), Morehead Scholar; Washington and Lee University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1976), Editor-in-Chief, Washington and Lee Law Review (1975-76), Order of the Coif. Member: Mecklenburg County and North Carolina (Litigation and Dispute Resolution Sections) Bar Associations; Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Wachovia Corporation (1983-2006). Author/Lecturer: Reining in Excessive Punitive Damages, U.S. Chamber, Washington, D.C. (2004); Punitive Damages, American Corporate Counsel Association, Washington, D.C. (2002). Civic Activities: McLeod Addictive Disease Center, Board Member and Past Chairman (1988- ); Davidson Housing Coalition, Board Member (2001-). Admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of North Carolina, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eleventh Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. |