BEAVER COURIE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Associate / Fayetteville, NC
- Family Law
- Member of the Cumberland County Bar Association
Cristina S. Quantock joined Beaver Courie, Attorneys at Law in 2012. Prior to joining the law firm, Cristina served as a prosecutor in Hoke County. While there, Cristina prosecuted both misdemeanors and felonies in Juvenile Court. Cristina was also responsible for prosecuting a variety of offenses at the District Court level including driving while impaired (DWI), domestic violence, and various traffic offenses. After working for the State, Cristina transitioned into criminal defense in private practice. Since joining the firm, Cristina has worked on hundreds of cases at both the District and Superior Courts. Cristina has handled a wide array of cases including traffic, DWI defense, and serious felonies such as attempted murder and rape. She has exemplified her trial experience and earned a reputation for zealously advocating on behalf of her clients.
With over 11 years of practice, Cristina has shown an attention to detail and a dedication to achieving the best possible results for her clients. Cristina has received various awards including the Greatest Around Fayetteville Award for Best Criminal Attorney in 2013, National Trial Lawyer's Top 100 Trial Lawyers (2014-2020), "Top One Percent 2016" award by the National League of Renowned Attorneys, and The Fayetteville Observer's "40 Under 40 Class of 2020" award.
After years of advocating for clients in the field of criminal defense, Cristina transitioned her practice to cover all areas of family law. Cristina has experience in handling difficult cases and knows how to help clients through challenging times. She also recognizes the importance of straightforward advice when trying to decide how to handle difficult situations. Her domestic practice covers all areas of family law including absolute divorce, child custody, alimony, separation agreements and equitable distribution. Cristina appreciates firsthand just how tough and emotionally draining it is when a marriage ends. As a mother of twins, Cristina also understands how important it is to protect the best interests of children despite the surrounding chaos. She has a proven track record of handling difficult cases and fighting for the best possible results.
Cristina earned her Bachelors of Arts from Campbell University in 2006, graduating Summa Cum Laude and with the distinction of Outstanding Senior in Criminal Justice. Following her undergraduate studies, Cristina earned her Juris Doctor from Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law in 2009. She graduated second in her class and with the honors. Cristina was admitted to the North Carolina State Bar the same year. While at Campbell Law School, Cristina served in the Student Body Association, Campbell Law Review, and Teaching Scholars Program.
Cristina is a member of the Cumberland County Bar Association, Hoke County Bar Association, and the North Carolina Bar Association. She also participates in various local civic activities including volunteering with the Child Advocacy Center, having served on the board of Fayetteville Justice For Our Neighbors (JFON) nonprofit, and having served as Secretary of the Campbell University Cumberland County Alumni Association. She is fluent in Spanish and English.
While she is not practicing law, Cristina spends as much time as possible with her two beautiful children. Cristina is a native of Fayetteville who has decided to raise her family is this wonderful community.
Cristina S. Quantock empezo con Beaver Courie, Attorneys at Law en 2012. Su práctica incluye todos los cargos penales, incluyendo tráfico, delito mayor, delito menor, y manejar en estado embriagado o afectado. Cristina tambien representa los clients con divorcio, custodia de los hijos y casos de violencia domestica.
Education
J.D., Campbell University, 2009
Job Titles:
- Senior Partner
- Senior Partner / Fayetteville, NC
David Courie is one of Cumberland, Hoke County and Moore County's best known and relied upon trial lawyers. David is a Fayetteville native with deep roots in the region. He is the son of a well-known small businessman and a highly regarded and loved, 40 year veteran school teacher. David joined the firm in 1997 as an associate to founding partner Jerry Beaver, following his work in Washington D.C., as a Special Assistant to North Carolina's Senior Senator and his completion of law school at Campbell University. He became a partner in just three years, a first for the firm.
During his almost seventeen years of practice, David has been humbled with some of the practice's most noteworthy honors. David was named the 2018 Raleigh DUI/DWI Lawyer of the year by Best Lawyers and has been included in the The Best Lawyers in America© listing for DUI/DWI for 2017-2018. David is an "AV Preeminent" rated attorney by Martindale Hubbell Legal Directory, the nation's oldest and most established lawyer rating service. His AV rating, which is the "highest possible rating in both legal ability and ethical standards", results from a thorough screening and anonymous voting process of judges and other rated attorneys. In one of the anonymous reviews, an unnamed judge said of David: "[He] is an excellent criminal defense attorney. He has skill, ability and knowledge. He also knows how and when to push an issue and when to let it go. He represents his clients in an aggressive and zealous manner without being overbearing. He is always very professional and is a true gentleman." His firm has also received the prestigious U.S. News and World Report Magazine "Best Law Firm, Tier 1" designation since 2010. David has a perfect "10.0" rating with Avvo.com and has been designated by Avvo as a "Client's Choice" and a "Superb, Top Attorney" in criminal defense. David was also been listed by The National Trial Lawyers as one of North Carolina's "Top 100 Trial Lawyers" 2014-2016. He has also been honored with local awards such as The Fayetteville Observer Reader's Choice Award for Best Lawyer, Best Around Fayetteville by Up and Coming Magazine's Best DWI lawyer, Best Criminal Defense Lawyer, and Greatest Around's Best Criminal Lawyer award.
David's trial practice is diverse, with its core being criminal defense, traffic and dwi defense. It is not uncommon for David to handle some of the area's most notorious and widely reported serious criminal cases, such as his work with partner Jerry Beaver on the notorious "Little Rascals" case, which resulted in the dismissal of Robert Kelly's more than 100 separate child sexual abuse charges. Many involve noteworthy local business people and politicians as well as regional and national personalities with matters pending in Cumberland, Hoke County or Moore County, such as David's representation of national recording star "Jadakiss" on drug and gun charges in Cumberland County which were completely dismissed. David is known for getting results in all manner of serious drug, theft, property, financial and sex-related cases, he normally is fighting for the hardworking residents of Fayetteville, Raeford, Pinehurst, Fort Bragg, Hope Mills and Spring Lake. Although his felony criminal practice is what is more widely reported in the news, it developed out of his highly respected traffic and misdemeanor practice. David and his team have one of the region's largest and most respected district court practices where they help hundreds of clients every month in all manner of traffic, DWI and misdemeanor criminal charges as well as domestic violence and related bond reductions and probation violations.
David has also developed a local and statewide reputation for his work in Alcohol Law Enforcement (ALE) and Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) law. David regularly is hired to represent soon-to-open restaurants, convenience stores, both locally owned, franchised and corporate sites, to obtain their alcohol permits. David also represents businesses and their employees every month in the criminal charges arising out of violations of the ABC laws as well as in the resulting civil permit violations issued by the North Carolina ABC Commission in Raleigh.
As a Fayetteville native and respected trial attorney, David has also developed a substantial practice in civil litigation, working along with his partner Hal Broadfoot in all manner of personal injury, medical malpractice, premises liability, federal tort claims and complex civil and business litigation. This area of practice has grown out of David's reputation as a trial lawyer, known to take a case to trial if not satisfied with the proposed settlement.
David is admitted to practice and has appears regularly before the United States District Court of the Eastern District of North Carolina and all levels of North Carolina's trial courts.
David lives in Fayetteville with his wife Michelle and their two children. When not in the courtroom or the office, David enjoys spending time with his family, fishing, hunting, travelling, playing golf, volunteering locally and working in political campaigns.
Education
J.D., Campbell Law School
B.A., Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina
Job Titles:
- Founding Partner
- Founding Partner / Fayetteville, NC
- Member of the American Bar Association
Jerry Beaver is one of North Carolinas best known and well-respected trial attorneys. He came to Fayetteville in 1973 from UNC law school and began work as an Assistant Public Defender.
During his years of practice, Jerry has achieved many honors and distinctions. He has been listed in "Best Lawyers in America" for more than twenty years and as one of North Carolinas Legal Elite by North Carolina Business Magazine since the inception of the directory. Since 2003, he has been selected for recognition in the publication North Carolina Super Lawyers, a listing of lawyers made up of 5% of North Carolina lawyers chosen through a rigorous process of polling, peer review and12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement and, in 2008, was listed in the Top 100 North Carolina Lawyers who received the highest point totals in the magazines nomination, research and blue ribbon review process. In October 2008, Jerry was inducted as a fellow of Litigation Counsel of American, an honorary association of lawyers selected from among only 3% of the national lawyers. He is listed in the National Directory of Criminal Defense Lawyers and has been listed as an AV lawyer by Martindale Hubble Legal Directory for over twenty years.
Jerry is a member of the American Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the American Association for Justice, the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, as well as other state and local bar groups. From 1992-2000 he served as a Councilor to the North Carolina State Bar, the governing body of all North Carolina lawyers. He is a frequent lecturer and author for seminars and periodicals produced by the American Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, and the North Carolina Bar Association
He is admitted to practice and has appeared before the United States Supreme Court, the Fourth Circuit United States Court of Appeals, the United States District Courts of the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina, and all divisions of the General Court of Justice for the State of North Carolina, including the North Carolina Supreme Court.
During his years of practice, Jerry has been involved in many of the regions most interesting and eventful criminal cases including representation of Robert Fulton Kelly in the notorious "Little Rascals" prosecution which resulted in the dismissal of more than 100 separate charges of child sexual abuse. Today, his criminal practice is largely concentrated in representation of clients charged with serious felony offenses in both State and Federal Court, including white-collar prosecutions, wire fraud, bank fraud, Medicaid and Medicare fraud, sexual offenses, drug charges, and crimes of violence. Over thirty-five years, Jerry has participated in hundreds of personal injury, premises liability and professional liability trials and settlements including his successful representation of Jackson "Rock" Pinckney, a Fort Bragg NC soldier against international film star Jean Claude Van Damme for personal injuries sustained during the filming of the motion picture "Cyborg," a case featured on Court TV In the field of civil rights, he received the unanimous opinion of the United States Supreme Court in Graham v. Connor (1989), which established a nationwide standard for establishing 4 th Amendment violations in police misconduct cases and also served as lead counsel in the precedent-setting Spell v. McDaniel (4 th Cir., 1989), winning a $900,000 jury verdict in a police brutality action which, to this day, serves as a national standard for establishing municipal liability for police misconduct.
In the year 2012 Jerry teamed with daughter Laura E. Beaver in the defense of the plant manager of the House of Raeford Farms, Inc. in a criminal prosecution by the Environmental Protection Division of the United States Department of Justice in a jury trial before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina where the plant manager was acquitted of all 14 counts of violation of the Clean Water Act for which he was charged.
Education
J.D., University of North Carolina, 1973
B.A., East Carolina University
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner / Fayetteville, NC
Hal W. Broadfoot Jr. has worked with the firm since the summer of 2000, after his first year at Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law. During his second and third years at law school, he did occasional research projects for us during the school year; he also clerked here in the summer after his second year. In 2002, after graduating from Campbell, Hal joined the firm as an associate and was admitted to the North Carolina Bar.
Hal has a varied practice, concentrating in civil cases. He has represented clients with problems as diverse as international child abduction, copyright infringement, and ephedra poisoning. He drafts wills and undertakes estate administration. He takes on business cases for plaintiffs and defendants. He has appeared in State and federal appellate courts, including oral argument before the Fourth Circuit United States Court of Appeals. Mostly, however, Hal's interest is in and his practice is devoted to helping injured people recover damages from those who hurt them. He dedicates much of his time to automobile liability cases and other cases involving serious injury.
Prior to becoming a lawyer, Hal worked in the printing industry and as a fine and graphic artist. You've probably seen his work around Fayetteville-paintings or prints of his pen & ink drawings or business logos. He still draws and paints when he can, but photography is taking up more and more of his time outside of work. He is active in his church, both in his local parish, St. John's Episcopal Church, where he has served in many leadership roles, and in the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina. He is a long-time Kiwanian and has served as a board member of several civic and cultural organizations, like Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, The Arts Council, and SALT (Sandhills Area Land Trust). He regularly speaks to local organizations about topics including birds, nature, and history. Hal also writes a long-running column in the Fayetteville Observer, "About Birds," which combines his interests in writing, teaching, and of course, birding.
Hal is a native of Fayetteville. His father, grandfathers, and great-grandfather practiced law in Cumberland County before him. He matriculated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the fall of 1980 and graduated in the spring of 1984 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. After college, he owned and operated a retail art and office supply store.
In addition to the North Carolina state courts and the Fourth Circuit, Hal is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts of the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of North Carolina. He is a member of the Cumberland County Bar Association, the North Carolina Bar Association, and the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers.
Education
J.D., Campbell University, 2002
B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1984