North Carolina Auto Injury Litigation From Start to Finish

is a personal injury lawyer with Riddle & Riddle. Her areas of practice are personal injury and workers' compensation law. In 2022, Ms. Stone was named a member of The National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 in recognition of her results. In 2023, she was named a "Rising Star" by Super Lawyers. Ms. Stone attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned her B.A. degree in media and journalism, with a concentration in public relations. Her second major was political science. Ms. Stone graduated with Distinction. During her undergraduate studies, she served as president of the Gamma Sigma Alpha National Greek Honor Society and participated in the Buckley Public Service Scholars Program, completing over 300 hours of public service. While attending law school, Ms. Stone served as a staff member of the North Carolina Law Review, and as a member of the UNC Women in Law, Carolina Health Law Organization.

is an attorney and a workers' compensation specialist with Riddle & Riddle. He has dedicated his career to litigating complicated legal matters, with particular emphasis on fighting for victims of serious personal injuries. Mr. Smith is a member of the North Carolina State Bar; U.S. District Court, Eastern and Middle districts of North Carolina; Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals; North Carolina Advocates of Justice; Tenth District Judicial Bar; and Wake County Bar Association. He is also board-certified by North Carolina State Bar's Board of Legal Specialization in the area of workers' compensation. Mr. Smith earned his B.A. degree, cum laude, in political science from Duke University and his J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law.

has helped individuals and small businesses with legal problems for nearly 40 years. His client-focused approach began with a general practice in Roxboro, North Carolina with former North Carolina House Speaker Jim Ramsey. Mr. Cioffi became focused on personal injury work over the next ten years, moving to larger and more complex injury cases and concentrating on insurance and catastrophic injury cases. He joined Sanford Thompson and Ted Smyth, working with them on significant Injury cases for five years until he and Mr. Smyth continued practice on their own for another ten years, working on a variety of catastrophic injury and insurance cases. Mr. Cioffi continued that work on his own over the last ten years, until joining Maginnis Howard, of counsel, a firm with whom he worked on scores of cases over the years. He is a first-generation American who grew up in New Hampshire going to one-room schoolhouses for his primary education. In high school, legal and government opportunities were opened (Boys State and Model UN awards) and furthered when Mr. Cioffi went to college at the University of New Hampshire (internships in U.S. Senate, New Hampshire Association of Counties, and National Association of Counties) and culminated when he went to work as a speech writer for the New Hampshire State Senate. He went to law school at American University in Washington, D.C., where he took on a joint degree program in law and international relations. Mr. Cioffi completed the course work for his master's degree, and left D.C. for North Carolina to marry his now-wife of 38-years, before he finished his dissertation in International Relations. He has been president of the Tenth Judicial District Memorials Committee, president of the North Carolina Bar Association Medico-Legal Guidelines Committee, and president of the Susie Sharp Inn of Court, and several local and community organizations.

is a partner at Howard Stallings Law Firm, where he represents plaintiffs in first-party property insurance, serious injury, and wrongful death cases. He has been recognized by The Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Best Lawyers in America, and Super Lawyers.  Mr. Jessup was born and raised in North Carolina. He earned both his undergraduate degree, in Religious Studies and Journalism, and his law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is proud to represent people across his home state and is committed to helping clients through some of the most difficult moments in their lives.  Mr. Jessup lives in Raleigh with his wife, who is also an attorney, and their two young children.

is a partner at Owens & Miller, PLLC, where his practice is limited exclusively to the representation of individuals (plaintiffs) in the litigation of injury claims. He has a proven track record with appearances in the Superior Court Divisions of 37 of North Carolina's 100 counties, with numerous jury cases tried to verdict in eight of these counties. Mr. Owens has successfully negotiated, prosecuted, and litigated claims with all major insurance carriers and most defense firms throughout central North Carolina. He is frequently selected by fellow attorneys to serve as an arbitrator in the binding arbitration of uninsured/underinsured motorist claims. Mr. Owens is admitted to practice in North Carolina and before the United States District Court for the Eastern, Western, and Middle Districts of North Carolina. He is an active member of the Wake County Bar Association, North Carolina Bar Association, National Trial Lawyers, North Carolina Advocates for Justice, and the Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America (APITLA), which is a national organization of committed attorneys who have joined together to help eliminate unsafe and illegal interstate trucking practices. Mr. Owens earned his B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and J.D. degree from Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law.

is a senior partner at CR Legal Team, LLP. He litigated plaintiff personal injury cases for four years before joining CR Legal Team. Mr. Fleury earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington and Lee University and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. He has also completed the Charlotte’s Queens University McColl School of Business Harvard Management Development Program. Mr. Fleury has gained admission to the U.S. Federal District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of North Carolina, the Southern District of Illinois, and the Middle District of Tennessee.