Ragsdale Liggett lawyer named to "Legal Elite"

Robert J. Ramseur, Jr. Named To “Legal Elite”

RALEIGH, N.C. – Ragsdale Liggett. PLLC has announced that Robert J. Ramseur, Jr., a partner in the firm, has been recognized as one of the top lawyers in North Carolina by Business North Carolina, a magazine that covers business trends and issues in the state.

Each year, Business North Carolina mails ballots to every lawyer living in North Carolina licensed by the State Bar. The ballots ask: “Of the North Carolina lawyers whose work you have observed firsthand, whom would you rate among the current best?” Voters in 2006 selected Ramseur, and he was subsequently inducted into the Legal Elite in the area of real estate. Less than 3 percent of the state’s lawyers made the list.

“I am honored to be named to Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite,” said Ramseur. “To be recognized by my peers in this way is humbling and gratifying.”

About Robert Ramseur, Jr.:
Robert J. Ramseur, Jr. is a partner at Ragsdale Liggett PLLC, where he heads the Residential Real Estate Department. Licensed to practice law in North Carolina in 1996, Ramseur practiced solo in Raleigh for five years before joining Ragsdale Liggett. He is a licensed Real Estate Salesman in North Carolina. Ramseur serves on the Wake County Bar Association Facilities Committee and is a member of the American, Wake County, 10th Judicial District and North Carolina Bar Associations, and is active in the Wake County Real Property Lawyers Association. In 2005, Ramseur was elected to the board of directors for Theater in the Park (TIP), a local nonprofit organization and the largest community theatre in North Carolina. In this position, Ramseur serves as a liaison between TIP and the community to sustain and further develop community relations. Ramseur has provided pro bono legal advice on housing issues and landlord-tenant disputes to low-income citizens in North Carolina. He serves on the board of the Rotary Club of the Capital City, a nonprofit civic club, as the chair of club service. He volunteers and does fund-raising for Camp Sea Gull and Seafarer, which are camps owned by the YMCA.

About Ragsdale Liggett PLLC:
The law firm of Ragsdale Liggett PLLC is comprised of lawyers with extensive legal expertise across a broad range of practice areas. Known for their innovations in the arena of corporate law, Ragsdale Liggett lawyers are equipped to handle all of a business’ legal needs, including formation, day-to-day business counseling, acquisition, disposition, merger and dissolution of companies ranging in size from small local businesses to national financial institutions and large international insurance conglomerates. The diverse real estate practice group at Ragsdale Liggett handles a wide variety of real estate transactions, from residential purchases and sales to all aspects of commercial real estate development, including entity formation, final project completion, complex public and private bond financing transactions, and the privatization of university student housing. Since its formation in 1972, the firm has developed an extraordinary reputation in the area of civil litigation and has enjoyed significant courtroom successes ranging from local state courts to the United States Supreme Court in areas with far-reaching implication, such as insurance/reinsurance coverage disputes, shareholder derivative actions, ERISA disputes, professional negligence defense, catastrophic personal injury defense and complex construction disputes. For more information please call (919) 787-5200 or view the firm’s Web site at http://www.rl-law.com

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Raleigh Law Firm Attorneys Sworn in by U.S. Supreme Court

Ragsdale Liggett PLLC has announced that on Tuesday, Oct. 3, attorneys from the firm were sworn in and officially admitted as members of the Supreme Court of the United States. The group traveled to Washington D.C. on Oct. 2 and were received by the court at 10 a.m. the next morning.

Founding partner George Ragsdale, having successfully argued a case in the Supreme Court in 1992 and already a member of the Court since 1973, introduced his colleagues and moved their admission to the Court. Chief Justice John Roberts ordered their admission upon Mr. Ragsdale’s motion and addressed Ragsdale Liggett lawyers personally, welcoming each as newly admitted members of the Court.
The attorneys included:

Melissa Dewey Brumback, partner, Litigation Dorothy Bass Burch, partner, Business Mary Hulett, partner, Litigation David K. Liggett, partner, Business William A. Mann, partner, Real Estate John M. Nunnally, partner, Litigation Walter L. Tippett, Jr., partner, Litigation Richard O. Bolton, associate, Real Estate Ashley Huffstetler Campbell, associate, Litigation John R. Hemphill, associate, Litigation Sandra W. Mitterling, associate, Litigation.
Firm members of counsel, Joseph E. Johnson and Sarah E. Winslow, were each admitted upon a written motion on Oct. 2. Ragsdale Liggett attorneys previously admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court include Frank R. Liggett III in 1991 and Robert J. Ramseur in 2002.

“It was an incredible moment in my legal career,” said Dottie Burch, partner in the firm. “Just being there, 10 feet from all nine Justices, took our breath away. The pilgrimage to be admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States is a trip every lawyer dreams of making and it was nothing short of fantastic.”

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