Education: Lake Erie College (A.B., summa cum laude, 1959); Yale University (M.A., 1960); University of North Carolina School of Law (J.D., with high honors, 1966).

Honors and Professional Activities: Woodrow Wilson Fellow; Order of the Coif; Editor-in-Chief, North Carolina Law Review; Law Clerk to the Honorable J. Spencer Bell, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1966-67; North Carolina General Statutes Commission, 1982-2002 (past Chair and Vice Chair); Order of the Long Leaf Pine; North Carolina General Statutes Commission Drafting Committees for Business Corporation Act and Nonprofit Corporation Act; Board of Governors of the North Carolina Bar Association, 1977-1980; Business Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association (past Chair); President, Greensboro Bar Association, 1990-1991; Fellow, American Bar Foundation; Listed in Best Lawyers in America (Corporate Law); Named to Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite Hall of Fame (Business Law).

Practice Emphasis: Securities Regulation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Venture Capital; General Corporate.

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