MOORE & VAN ALLEN - Key Persons
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Restructuring
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- Associate, Intellectual Property
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- Member of the Immigration
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- Co - Chair, Member, Financial Services
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- Director of Communications & Media Relations
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- Associate, Financial Services
Andrew Chamberlain represents financial institutions in the structuring, negotiation and documentation of syndicated, club and single lender credit facilities. His experience principally involves financial sponsor acquisitions in the franchise, TMT, and consumer space. Andrew's practice also extends to financings involving the acquisition and development of numerous real estate projects. A former member of the banking community, Andrew employs his understanding of financial institutions to guide clients from their initial pitch to closing.
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Patent Agent, Intellectual Property
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Associate, Financial Restructuring
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- Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property
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- Associate, Intellectual Property
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- Counsel, Intellectual Property
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- Director of Public Relations
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- of Counsel, Commercial Real Estate
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- Director of Public Affairs
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- Senior Counsel, Employee Benefits
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- Director of Public Affairs
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- Member of the Wealth & Estate Planning
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Associate, Intellectual Property
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Co - Head of Zoning, Entitlement, & Land Use
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- Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property
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- Co - Head of Financial Services
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- Member of the Wealth & Estate Planning
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Senior Counsel, Financial Services
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- Paralegal
- Paralegal, Wealth & Estate Planning
Carol Elliott is a paralegal in the Wealth and Estate Planning Group of Moore & Van Allen's Charlotte Office, with over 35 years of experience. Carol works primarily on Estate, Trust, and Guardianship administration matters, including Estate Tax and Fiduciary Income Tax filings, and also assists with estate planning/probate avoidance for surviving family members.
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- Paralegal, Wealth & Estate Planning
Cathy Coudriet brings over two decades of experience as a paralegal to assist clients with estate and trust administration and gift and estate tax matters.
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- Associate, Commercial Real Estate
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- Member of the Health Care
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Discovery Staff Attorney, Litigation
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Member of the Intellectual Property
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- Head of Wealth & Estate Planning
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- Member of the Commercial Real Estate
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Head of Charleston Litigation
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- Member of the Commercial Real Estate
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- Associate, Intellectual Property
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- IT Director - OPS & Compliance
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- Member of the Financial Restructuring
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- Senior Counsel, Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Restructuring
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- Head of Employee Benefits, and Co - Head of ESOP Transactions
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- Co - Head of Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Director of Economic Development
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- Associate in Moore & Van Allen 's Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring
- Associate, Financial Restructuring
Danielle is an associate in Moore & Van Allen's Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring group. She represents banks, financial institutions, and corporate clients in restructuring and corporate bankruptcy matters. Danielle also has experience in representing financial institution in connection with secured and unsecured lending transactions, including single-lender and syndicated credit facilities.
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- Member of the Financial Restructuring
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- of Counsel, Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Restructuring
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Counsel, Financial Services
Derek Marks represents financial institutions and investment firms in a variety of finance transactions including structured transactions with respect to rail and aviation assets. Derek also has extensive experience representing lenders and borrowers in structuring, negotiating, and executing complex syndicated and bilateral financing transactions.
Prior to joining the firm, Derek spent 7 years as Senior Counsel at a global vendor finance company with a managed portfolio of over $35 billion.
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- Counsel, Financial Services
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- Member of the Intellectual Property
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Co - Head of Financial Regulatory Advice & Response
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- Counsel, Financial Services
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- Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property
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- Associate, Financial Services
Emily practice focuses on guiding clients through mergers and acquisitions, helping structure the sale or purchase to the client's advantage, and advising clients on corporate finance transactions, corporate governance issues, and general corporate matters.
Emily received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law. Emily also completed a fellowship at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she earned an LL.M. in health law.
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Head of Commercial Real Estate
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- Member of the Intellectual Property
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- Senior Counsel, Commercial Real Estate
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- Member of the Employee Benefits
- Member of the Employee Benefits & Compensation
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- Member of the White Collar, Regulatory Defense & Investigations
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- Member of the Financial Restructuring
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- Counsel, Commercial Real Estate
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- Member of the Corporate & Commercial Real Estate
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- Associate, Financial Restructuring
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Associate, Commercial Real Estate
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Human Resources Director - Office Administration
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- Member of the Financial Restructuring
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- Member of the Commercial Real Estate
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Member of the Commercial Real Estate
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- Member of the Intellectual Property
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Attorney at Law, Intellectual Property
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- Patent Engineer, Intellectual Property
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- Member of the Intellectual Property
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Counsel, Employment & Labor
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- Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property
Jim Manning has broad experience in commercial litigation, employment litigation, and government investigations and enforcement. Jim zealously advocates for clients in and out of the courtroom.
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- Member of the Financial Restructuring
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Member of the Intellectual Property
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- DEI & Community Service Initiatives Manager
Though Jim Moore was reared in Wellston, Ohio (his father was a railroad man), he was a direct descendent of James Moore, the first colonial governor of the Carolinas, and of General James Moore, the hero of the Revolutionary War Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in the southeastern tip of the State. Jim's wife, Jane Morrison Moore, was the great granddaughter of the Reverend Robert Hall Morrison, the first president of Davidson College. The "Morrison House" in Charlotte's Fourth Ward belonged to members of this family.
At the time of Jim Moore's graduation from high school in Ohio, his father suffered a severe stroke. After caring for his father for a time in Ohio, Moore brought him to Charlotte where they shared a house with Moore's aunt, Mrs. Frank Shannonhouse (grandmother of Charlotte lawyer Jim Shannonhouse). Moore went to work here for the Merchants & Farmers Bank until his father's death two years later. He enrolled at the University in Chapel Hill as an undergraduate in 1928. Five years later, he had worked his way through college and the University's law school. He had served as an Associate Editor of the Law Review and worked almost full-time in the law library.
Moore opened his own law office in Charlotte in the depths of the Depression. He roomed with attorney Ed Stukes, who later became Clerk of Mecklenburg County Superior Court and boarded with his cousin, Francis Clarkson, who later became a Superior Court Judge.
Moore and Jane Morrison married in 1936. They built their first house on Tranquil Avenue with an FHA loan and Moore took on any legal work that came his way.
In the late 1930s, Plummer Stewart, one of Charlotte's most prominent lawyers invited Moore to join his practice which became Stewart & Moore. Stewart had previously practiced with two of Charlotte's most illustrious judges, William Bobbitt and John J. Parker.
During World War II, Moore received a commission in the Navy as a Lieutenant (jg) and served in the Pacific as Signal Officer on the aircraft carrier Bennington in Admiral Bull Halsey's fast carrier task force. Moore was in combat on the Bennington from the earliest air strikes on Tokyo until his ship participated in the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay.
After the War, Moore became a partner in the firm of Whitlock, Dockery & Moore, where he concentrated in real estate law. Moore eagerly joined forces with Bob Lassiter with the objective of becoming a business lawyer.
In his spare time, Moore unselfishly served various children's causes. He was president of the Family and Children's Service Bureau and for years was Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Thompson Orphanage. The Orphanage owned the property on King's Drive where the Charlottetown Mall was later built as well as the property between Third and Fourth Streets where St. Mary's wedding chapel and the Vietnam War Memorial are currently located. Moore was a primary negotiator of the transaction with the Rouse organization which bought the property and developed the Mall. The financial terms were very favorable to the orphanage as it phased out its orphanage operations and moved into its Thompson Children's Center on the eastern edge of the City. In 1986, Thompson celebrated its Centennial year. Commemorating this special occasion, a history of Thompson entitled "A Century's Child," was dedicated to Jim Moore for his years of "faith, leadership and vision."
In 1978 the North Carolina Child Care Association chose Moore as the first recipient of its Trustee of the Year award. Those eligible for this honor were the more than 500 board members of 31 child care agencies throughout the state.
Over the years, Moore held a number of Diocesan offices in the Episcopal Church and served many times as a vestryman at St. Peters and at Christ Church here in Charlotte. In 1969, he was presented with the Bishop's Award by the Diocese of North Carolina.
Moore was a member of the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati and a permanent member of the Judicial Conference of the Fourth Judicial Circuit.
Jim Moore died on September 1, 1988 and was survived by Jane, his wife of 52 years, and by three daughters, a son, and twelve grandchildren.
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- Counsel, Employee Benefits
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- Co - Head of Zoning, Entitlement, & Land Use
Jeff White advises clients facing complex litigation, enforcement, and regulatory compliance issues.
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- Member of the Intellectual Property
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- Senior Counsel, Litigation
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- Member of the Health Care
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- Counsel, Intellectual Property
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- Co - Head of Litigation and White Collar, Regulatory Defense & Investigations
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- Associate, Financial Regulatory Advice & Response
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- Senior Counsel, Financial Regulatory Advice & Response
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- Member of the Employment & Labor
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- Member of the Public Affairs
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- Director of Public Affairs
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- Member of the Intellectual Property
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Senior Counsel, Financial Services
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Associate
- Associate, Financial Services
Joe Silva is an associate in Moore & Van Allen's Financial Services group.
Prior to joining the firm, Joe practiced in the legal department of a global financial institution where he primarily advised its asset management division's credit investments group.
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- Member of the Corporate and Transportation
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Co - Head of Civil Rights and Litigation Member
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- Counsel, Financial Services
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- Paralegal, Wealth & Estate Planning
Julie Barrows has over twenty years of experience as a paralegal in a variety of areas and specializing in the last decade in estate planning and estate and trust administration.
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- Paralegal
- Paralegal, Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring
With over 40 years in legal services, Julie Chanson is a paralegal on the Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring Team in the Charleston Office. She works primarily in the areas of bankruptcy, collection, and foreclosure in state and federal courts.
Education
Paralegal Certificate, Trident Technical College, 1988, summa cum laude
AA., Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College, 1977
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Associate, Intellectual Property
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- Co - Head of Privacy & Data Security, Employment & Labor, and Litigation
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- Associate in Moore & Van
- Associate, Litigation
Katie McDiarmid is an associate in Moore & Van Allen's Litigation group. Katie focuses on white collar criminal defense, internal and government investigations, and complex civil litigation.
Katie regularly practices in state and federal court. Katie's experience ranges from pre-litigation stages through trial. Katie's skills have been leveraged in fact-discovery, forensic analysis, motions practice, and assistance with oral argument.
While attending law school, Katie enjoyed the advantage of summer clerkships with the Honorable Paul M. Newby, now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina and the Honorable Richard L. Voorhees, U.S. Senior District Court Judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. These opportunities gave Katie invaluable insights into the importance of thorough preparation and ethical advocacy that is persuasive.
Prior to law school, Katie was a corps member with Teach for America in the Piedmont Triad Region. It is through teaching high school math that Katie refined her attention to detail and developed her skill at breaking down complex topics into simpler and relatable explanations.
Katie's Teach for America experience let her see first-hand the value of giving back to the community. Katie is active and engaged in pro bono activities ranging from petitioning for conviction expunctions to give people a fresh start to representing domestic violence survivors.
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- Member of the Intellectual Property
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- Counsel, Wealth & Estate Planning
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Lateral Attorney Recruiting Manager
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- Land Use & Zoning Consultant
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Member of the Wealth & Estate Planning
Kevin's practice focuses on health care-related transactions and health care regulation. Kevin helps clients navigate and understand the complexities of health law and brings a pragmatic approach to his transactional work-advising clients of the relevant regulatory and commercial risks so they can make informed business decisions.
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- Senior Counsel, Litigation
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Senior Counsel, Health Care
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- Associate, Employment & Labor
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- Associate, Commercial Real Estate
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Associate, Intellectual Property
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- of Counsel, Financial Services
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- IT Director - Infrastructure and Security
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- Member of the Environmental
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- Staff Attorney, Commercial Real Estate
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- Member of the Financial Restructuring
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- Associate, Intellectual Property
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Associate, Bankruptcy ＆ Financial Restructuring
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- Director of Public Affairs & Special Projects
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- Senior Counsel, Corporate
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- Associate in Moore & Van Allen 's Financial Services
- Associate, Financial Services
Marion Brown is an associate in Moore & Van Allen's Financial Services group. She represents banks and financial institutions in secured and unsecured lending transactions, including single-lender and syndicated credit facilities.
Prior to joining the firm, Marion practiced in the legal department of a global financial institution where she gained experience advising the asset management division's credit investments and private funds groups. While in law school, Marion served as an Editorial Board member and a staff member of the North Carolina Banking Institute journal. She also spent a semester in practice with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as a part of the Student Honors Legal Program.
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- Member of the Wealth & Estate Planning
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- Senior Counsel, Litigation
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Associate, Financial Restructuring
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- Public Affairs Communications Director
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Member of the Wealth & Estate Planning
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Associate, Wealth & Estate Planning
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Head of Global Services, Co - Head of ESOP Transactions
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- Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property
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- Member of the Commercial Real Estate
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- Associate, Wealth & Estate Planning
Michaela Cronin's practice is focused on estate planning, trust and estate administration, and charitable planning for high net-worth individuals and families, senior executives of public companies, and closely-held businesses.
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- Associate, Intellectual Property
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- Member of the Commercial Real Estate
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- MEDIA CONTACTS
- Member of the Public Affairs and Director of Marketing
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Co - Head of Financial Regulatory Advice & Response
- Member of the Co - Head, Financial Regulatory Advice & Response
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- Member of the Intellectual Property
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Manager of New Associate Recruiting
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- HR Administrative Coordinator / HRIS Specialist
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- Counsel, Commercial Real Estate
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- of Counsel, Employment & Labor
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- Member of the Wealth & Estate Planning
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- Member of the Environmental
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- Member of the Intellectual Property
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- Staff Attorney, Financial Services
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Member of the Commercial Real Estate
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- Member of the Intellectual Property
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- Associate, Corporate & Commercial Real Estate
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- Counsel, Intellectual Property
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Counsel, Financial Restructuring
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- Professional Development Manager
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- Member of the Commercial Real Estate
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- Head of Equipment Finance
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- of Counsel, Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Services
Following a prep career at Woodberry Forest, where he was Senior Prefect and football captain, Bob enrolled at Yale. There, while performing academically at the Phi Beta Kappa level, he also captained the football team - this at a time when Yale, Harvard and Princeton were college football's "Big Three."
Lassiter graduated from Yale in 1934 and after a year of postgraduate study at Cambridge, enrolled at the Harvard Law School. He received his law degree in 1938 and after working for a brief time in Washington with the Treasury Department, he came home and practiced law with two highly regarded Charlotte lawyers - Claude Cochran and Frank McClenaghan. This engagement was interrupted by World War II.
Lassiter, already a licensed pilot, joined the Navy and was assigned to the Naval Air Station in Pensacola as a multi-engine flight instructor. As part of his own Navy training, he went through the American Airlines School for captains in Texas and flew commercial airliners between Fort Worth and Chicago.
In 1949 and again in 1951, Lassiter was elected from Mecklenburg to the State House of Representatives. He led the ticket in both elections. In 1954, U.S. Senator Clyde R. Hoey died. Bob Hanes, CEO of Wachovia, former president of the American Banking Association and one of the founders of the Research Triangle, asked his nephew, Bob Lassiter, if he would like to be among those considered by Governor Umstead for appointment to Hoey's seat. Lassiter declined. The appointment went to Judge Sam Ervin.
In 1949, Lassiter opened his own office in the Johnston Building in uptown Charlotte - a radical move at the time. Shortly thereafter, he teamed up with James O. Moore. They were in agreement on two principles: (a) they would practice business law in close proximity to the businessmen and banks, and (b) they would not bring clients with them from their former firms. The following year, they persuaded Lassiter's friend from Harvard Law, Bill Van Allen, to join them and, after Van Allen was licensed in 1951, the firm became Lassiter, Moore & Van Allen.
In 1963, Winston-Salem's P. H. Hanes Knitting Company and Hanes Hosiery Mills were planning to merge. The CEOs of those companies, P. Huber Hanes and Gordon Hanes, were first cousins of Lassiter and of each other and they believed that the new entity would run more smoothly with Lassiter on their team. Lassiter accepted their invitation and left the law firm. Starting out as Chairman of the Board of P. H. Hanes and Vice-President and General Counsel of Hanes Hosiery, he later chaired the Executive Committee of the merged entity, Hanes Corporation.
In 1968, Lassiter left Hanes and returned to Charlotte to open an office in the first NCNB Building at Tryon and Fourth. He soon became heavily involved in activities which supported UNCC and its Foundation, which he served as Trustee and as a member of its Executive Committee for ten years. He also served for a time as Chairman of the Foundation.
In collaboration with David Taylor - who chaired the UNCC Foundation for a lengthy period - Lassiter helped formulate a plan to convert a large tract owned by the University between I-85 and U.S. 29 into an asset that would produce income for the school and help to create more of a college town feel for UNCC's fairly isolated location in north Charlotte. Lassiter chaired the Planning Committee and was named president of the corporation formed to implement the plan. The corporation borrowed money from six banks and bought additional strategically important nearby land. UNCC and its administrators and its geographers - principally E. K. Fretwell, Jim Clay, and Doug Orr - were studying successful "new town" developments from all over the world. An experienced developer - Carley Capital, from Madison, Wisconsin, was selected and the result was University City and University Place as we know them today.
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- Counsel, Commercial Real Estate
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- of Counsel, Employment & Labor
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- Member of the Commercial Real Estate
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- Discovery Staff Attorney, Litigation
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Paralegal in the Global Services Group of Moore & Van Allen 's Charlotte Office
- Senior Corporate Paralegal
Sally Hentz is a paralegal in the Global Services group of Moore & Van Allen's Charlotte Office. She assists foreign and domestic clients with their general corporate needs.
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- Counsel, Intellectual Property
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Associate, Intellectual Property
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- Member of the Wealth & Estate Planning
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- Member of the Employment & Labor
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- Associate, Intellectual Property
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- Land Use & Zoning Consultant
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- Member of the Commercial Real Estate
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- Human Resources Director - Professionals
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Co - Head of Financial Restructuring
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- Director of Public Affairs
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- Co - Head of Privacy & Data Security
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- Associate, Intellectual Property
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- of Counsel, Commercial Real Estate
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Manager of Research & Knowledge Management
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- Senior Counsel, Litigation
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Associate, Employment & Labor
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Senior Counsel, Corporate
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Chairman
- Chairman of the Management Committee
- Managing Partner
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Co - Head of Commercial & Technology Transactions
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- Director of Public Affairs
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- Senior Counsel, Commercial Real Estate
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- Paralegal, Financial Services
Tracie Solarte assists with title and survey review for transactions involving various institutional lenders in a wide range of commercial real estate finance transactions, including conduit financing, other permanent lending transactions, construction lending, loan purchase and sale transactions, and multistate syndicated loan facilities.
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- Member of the Health Care & Litigation
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- Associate, Intellectual Property
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- Associate, Intellectual Property
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- Co - Chair, Member, Co - Head
- Co - Head of White Collar, Regulatory Defense & Investigations Co - Head of Civil Rights & Racial Equity Assessments
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Head of Intellectual Property
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Managing Director & Head of Public Affairs
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- Associate in Moore & Van Allen 's Litigation
- Associate, Litigation
Will Baxley is an associate in Moore & Van Allen's Litigation group. He focuses his legal practice around representing clients in the areas of white-collar crime, government investigation, and regulatory enforcement.
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- Member of the Health Care
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- Head of Tax and Co - Head of Corporate
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- Member of the Financial Services
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Associate, Financial Services
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- Associate, Intellectual Property
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- Member of the Financial Services
Albion, a very small town in western New York eight miles south of Lake Ontario, is probably not a place you would expect to find a founding partner of a Charlotte law firm. Nevertheless, that's where Bill Van Allen was born in 1914. His father, Everett, started out as a school-teacher, was promoted to principal and eventually became the superintendent of the school system in Seneca, New York. The elder Van Allen then decided he wanted to be a lawyer and obtained his license by "reading the law" and being tutored in the office of a judge. He practiced solo in Rochester until age 92.
The younger Van Allen, after graduating (and earning a Phi Beta Kappa key) at Hamilton College in 1935, decided that he too would be a lawyer. He enrolled at Harvard Law School where he and classmate Robert Lassiter soon became friends. When the two of them completed law school in 1938, they, with several other classmates, went to Washington - Van Allen to take a job with a law firm and Lassiter to work in the Treasury Department. The two, along with two other classmates and two friends who had just finished their studies as Rhodes Scholars, moved into a rented house at 1913 S Street. When the number of Harvard Law friends looking for a place to live continued to increase, it was time to look for a larger house.
In early 1941, as the drumbeat for U.S. involvement in World War II grew louder, Van Allen went on active duty as a Naval officer. After a rudimentary education in seamanship, navigation, shiphandling, naval warfare, etc., he was assigned first to several small vessels - including a converted yacht - and in May 1943 was made executive officer of the USS Eldridge which was still under construction in Newark. He was ordered to Norfolk for several months to train the ship's crew. The Eldridge was a 1,240 ton, 306 foot long, destroyer escort. Its crew would be comprised of around 20 officers and 190 men. The ship was launched in July 1943 and commissioned in August under the command of Lt. Charles R. Hamilton. After more training, sea trials and a shakedown cruise, the ship sailed out of Norfolk with the first of nine convoys it would shepherd across the Atlantic to ports like Casablanca, Oran and Bizerte in support of the Allied invasion of North Africa. His last two years on the Eldridge, Van Allen served as captain of the ship. As the War wound down, the ship was ordered to the Pacific where it served until hostilities ended several months later.
After the war, Van Allen returned to Washington and resumed practice there - primarily in labor law. He reconnected with Bob Lassiter in Washington during the time when Lassiter was travelling there on a fairly regular basis lobbying for more commercial air service for Charlotte. On one of these visits in 1948, Lassiter suggested that Van Allen come to Charlotte and start a practice. In the summer of 1950, Van Allen agreed to come to Charlotte, but not before consulting Chief Fourth Circuit Judge John J. Parker, who assured him that the move was a good idea. After Van Allen took the bar exam and got his North Carolina license in 1951, the firm of Lassiter, Moore & Van Allen was created. Some principles that were agreed to were that the firm would concentrate on business law and would not do personal injury work, insurance defense or collections work. By 1962, the total revenue of the firm had soared to $210,000. Expenses, including salaries, totaled $108,000. Reaching this milestone had taken over ten years. On two occasions, the law firm has been the largest in Charlotte; now ‑ with nearly 400 lawyers ‑ and in 1955 when there were five.
Bill Van Allen died on February 3, 2011, at the age of 96. He is survived by Sally, his wife of 66 years, three sons, and eight grandchildren. A ceremony was held in Mr. Van Allen's honor on November 10, 2011 at the Mecklenburg County Courthouse. Sally Van Allen and other family members were in attendance, as well as his close friends and colleagues. The Resolution and Memorial in honor of Mr. Van Allen was filed with Mecklenburg County and can be viewed in its entirety here. An audio recording of the ceremony can be found here.
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- Chief Information Officer
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- Attorney, Commercial Real Estate
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- Head of Employment & Labor
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- Co - Head of Financial Restructuring