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Ryan Coffield is a member of The Van Winkle Law Firm’s Business Practice, where he works with small and mid-size businesses on all phases of corporate life, including entity choice, formation, ongoing operations, reorganizations and owner transition strategies. Coffield’s expertise in the areas of corporate and non-profit taxation allows him to provide a valuable, unique perspective on his clients’ legal issues.. Prior to joining the firm in 2013, Coffield worked as a general practitioner in the Triangle.

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Martin Moore is an experienced trial lawyer and counselor. He began his career in public service, defending hundreds of clients in criminal, juvenile, and civil trials. In private practice, Martin joined one of Asheville's largest law firms, serving business and individual clients in business, employment, and land use matters. Martin has defended clients in both state and federal courts, and aided clients in matters before the North Carolina Court of Appeals and North Carolina Supreme Court. His experience counseling clients from business formation, through administrative investigations, and through trials allows him to offer quality, sound counsel to help you navigate your unique legal cocnerns.. Martin is a mediator certified by the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission and has been recognized by "The Best Lawyers in America ® Ones to Watch" recognition three years running.

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Kristen Rigsby Smith is a member of The Van Winkle Law Firm’s Business practice, where she focuses on creditors’ rights and commercial lending. She represents lenders, banks, other financial institutions, and investors in a broad range of transactions, including, without limitation, foreclosures, collections, reformations, title claims, loan workouts, modifications, landlord/tenant issues, fraudulent transfers, partitions, bankruptcy, lender-liability, and general civil litigation matters. In addition, she provides lender counsel for commercial and complex financing transactions. She also represents taxing authorities in a variety of matters, including collections.. Smith has a wide variety of statewide foreclosure experience, including appeals, defending suits for injunction, and trials. She typically represents the lender in foreclosure, but also has significant experience representing and serving as substitute trustee. Smith has extensive experience negotiating and preparing agreements for out-of-court restructuring and workouts prior to or during the collection process, including, without limitation, negotiating and drafting forbearance agreements, settlement agreements, and deeds in lieu of foreclosure.. She represents numerous types of creditors, both secured and unsecured, in consumer and business bankruptcy proceedings statewide. Smith is admitted in the Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts of North Carolina and represents clients in Chapter 7, 11, 12, and 13 bankruptcy cases.. While in law school, Smith was a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) and received the Dean’s “Pro Bono Service Award” for her extensive community service work.

Kight on Cannabis: The Definitive Word on Weed.. Rod Kight is an award winning lawyer, advocate, and author focusing his efforts on supporting providers, farmers, manufacturers, scientist, laboratories, and the retail industry surrounding the commerce of industrial hemp and legal recreational and medical cannabis. Visit the website: . [Note: Website goes live end of January 2018. Stay tuned!] I have a personal interest in cannabis. I experimented with it recreationally in college and, frankly, continued my “experimentation” off and on into adulthood.. In my mid-thirties I was diagnosed with testicular cancer and had to undergo chemotherapy treatments. I did not try cannabis as a medical aid at first. This was due to a misplaced belief that trying it as a medical aid would really be nothing more than using my illness as an excuse to get high. However, on a particularly difficult day when I was feeling miserable, I broke down and smoked marijuana with my brother. The experience was stunning and remarkable. Within fifteen minutes I felt significantly better and had an appetite for the first time in days. My flu- like aches subsided and my nausea disappeared. Certainly, I was not 100 percent better. However, I felt well enough to spend a pleasant evening talking with my brother. I ate two helpings of spicy Indian food and slept well enough to regain some lost energy. Had I not smoked marijuana that evening I would have remained in bed, not eaten, and spent most of the night tossing and turning, nauseated and in agony. My energy levels would have continued their steep decline and I would have been worse off for the next treatment.. Cannabis helped me through chemotherapy and I resolved at that time to become an advocate for its legalization. In addition to aiding with side effects of chemotherapy, new research suggests that it may also be important in treatment and even prevention of certain diseases.. I also have a long-time interest in business law. Law students do not typically have “majors” (or “minors”) in legal subjects in the same way that undergraduates do. However, a law student can choose to focus on a specific legal area by taking multiple courses in that area. In my case, I took every business law class that was offered in law school. As a philosophy major in college I was intrigued by the strange implications of being able to create a separate legal individual under the law and the tensions that such an arrangement could create between natural entities (i.e., people) and artificial entities (i.e., corporations). (That issue has been playing out in the Supreme Court recently, but in another context.) The metaphysics of the corporate veil and limited liability fascinated me.. Later, after starting my own law practice, the practical aspects of running a business— bookkeeping, marketing, taxes, employee management, financing, etc.— captivated me. Over the years, my law practice quickly migrated toward bankruptcy law. I eventually became a bankruptcy specialist and have represented numerous businesses through difficult reorganizations. I have also maintained a general business and commercial litigation of this is to say that being a cannabis business lawyer feels natural to me and was probably inevitable. Thank you for reading.

Estate planning is my passion. I love to listen to people's stories, goals, and ambitions. Solving problems--complex or simple--gives me great satisfaction. Clients tell me that I am a good listener, educator, and communicator. Estate planning should not be overwhelming or difficult---my role is to present options and solutions.

Edward L. Bleynat, Jr. began his legal career by clerking for James G. Exum, Jr., then the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. He later went to work with a major Greensboro law firm in a general litigation practice, focusing on business litigation and tort law.. In 1995, Ed, his wife and children relocated to Asheville, North Carolina to continue his law practice and to raise their family in Western North Carolina, where Ed grew up. After Ed started his own firm in 1997, he and Joe Ferikes merged their practices into Ferikes & Bleynat, PLLC.. Ed engages in the general practice of law, focusing on business litigation, civil litigation, major personal injury, real estate litigation, and construction and contract law.. Ed is actively involved in a variety of church, civic and community activities as a director, a trustee or a volunteer.. Ferikes & Bleynat, PLLC, is a North Carolina law firm regulated by the Rules of Professional Conduct as promulgated by the North Carolina State Bar.  As such, our lawyers do not and cannot ethically participate in many of Avvo's programs, including its Legal Topics, Legal Forms, or its fixed-price legal services. We advise extreme caution when relying on Q&A's or use of legal forms without the guidance of a qualified lawyer.

Do you care what happens to your loved ones when you die? Protect your legacy through foundational estate planning with the help of an experienced attorney. Asheville attorney Christopher M. Craig built Craig Associates, PC with the needs of families in mind. Coupling knowledge and experience with a unique ability to cultivate personal relationships with every client who walks through his door, Chris Craig can help you prepare for the future so you can sleep easier today.. As a father, Chris knows first-hand the importance of ensuring your family lives on comfortably and happily when you are no longer around—and as a lawyer, he knows the best way to do that is through proper planning long before the need arises.. With a focus on the logistical, financial, and emotional aspects of giving your loved ones a better future through trust-based foundational estate planning, Chris Craig collaborates with every client to build a solid estate plan that fits your needs and evolves with you throughout your life, including: revocable & irrevocable trusts, wills and living wills, nomination of guardianship, and more.. Chris seeks to guide you in creating the most appropriate estate plan for you and your family, one that protects your loved ones but that isn’t overly complicated or difficult to maintain. He helps protect your kids and your assets when bad stuff happens to you.. Chris is known for utilizing his teaching, collaborative law, and mediation experience to approach clients in a way that empowers them to be proactive in their lives, no matter whether they’ve sought help starting the family, maintaining the work they’ve created, or protecting the legacy they’ve worked to build.. Craig Associates PC can also help you grow your family through adoption and gestational surrogacy. Chris Craig is the only Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys Fellow in Western North Carolina.. Let us help you make informed decisions for you and your family. Call us today.

David practices in the area of business litigation, principally involving patent  infringement and antitrust matters.  Prior to joining Van Winkle, David practiced for eight years with a firm in South Carolina, also in the field of business litigation.  He has experience litigating in federal and state courts, and is licensed in both North Carolina and South Carolina.  David is admitted to practice in the Western and Middle Districts of North Carolina, as well as the District of South Carolina.. David’s educational background includes graduate work in statistics and in formal modeling of economic and political behavior, including collusive behavior by cartels.. In North Carolina, David practices primarily in the areas of intellectual property infringement and antitrust litigation.. David’s experience in South Carolina included representation of lenders in mortgage repurchase litigation and experience defending clients in bankruptcy adversary litigation brought by bankruptcy trustees.

Carleton is an experienced trial and appellate litigator who represents businesses ranging from local enterprises to large national or multi-national companies. He appears regularly as lead or local counsel in federal court, North Carolina Business Court, and state court in cases involving commercial disputes, employment claims, and intellectual property.. Carleton also has significant experience in civil rights matters, having handled constitutional claims affecting freedom of speech, public employment, and due process.. As outside counsel for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, he has represented the Tribe on novel civil rights issues under federal and tribal law.. Carleton is admitted to practice before all Cherokee Tribal Courts and all state and federal courts in North Carolina. He is also admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the Federal Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States.. Since 2007, Carleton has chaired the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group

Brad focuses his practice on personaly injury and eminent domain, practicing in both State and Federal Court.  Brad enjoys success in catastrophic injury cases, including traumatic brain injury.  In 2015-2016 Brad served as President of the 28th Judicial District Bar.  Brad is also a member of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice (NCAJ) and is a barrister in the Harry C. Martin Chapter of the American Inns of Court.

At Burt Langley, our goal is to provide excellent and responsive legal services in collaboration with our clients. We work as a team to help our clients meet their goals -- as the clients define them. We listen, work with you to develop a plan, and we communicate every step of the way. That means that we return phone calls, usually the same day, and you will receive copies of everything that happens on our case -- every email, every letter, every court filing. We don't ever want our clients to have to wonder what the status of their matter is.The firm's practice areas include business and contract-related litigation, estate litigation, and family law matters, as well as estate planning and estate administration.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in Sevierville and surrounding areas.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in Sevierville and surrounding areas.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in Sevierville and surrounding areas.