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is an attorney with Walker Allen. Her practice is primarily in general civil litigation, including automobile accident, premises liability and medical malpractice defense. Prior to joining Walker Allen, Ms. Johnson served as an assistant district attorney, where she quickly gained the nickname "Bull Dog" for her tenacious trial practice. She earned her B.A. degree, cum laude, from Virginia Commonwealth University and her J.D. degree from North Carolina Central University School of Law.

is a deputy county attorney with Guilford County, North Carolina. He is licensed in both Tennessee and North Carolina. Mr. Hicks is admitted to practice in the federal district courts of the Middle District of North Carolina and Tennessee, and the federal appellate courts of the fourth and sixth circuits. Over the course of his career, he has practiced family/divorce law, probate, and civil litigation, as well as elder law, juvenile law, and local government law. Mr. Hicks is a member of the Greensboro, District 24 (NC), Putnam County (TN), Tennessee, North Carolina, and American bar associations. He serves as a member of the board of directors, chair of the community involvement committee, and the fellows committee chairman for the Greensboro Bar Association. Mr. Hicks is currently the immediate past president of the North Carolina DSS Attorney's Association. He is past president of the Putnam County Bar Association and the Upper Cumberland Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Hicks is also the past vice president of the Tennessee Bar Association-Young Lawyers Division. With the North Carolina State Bar Association, he serves on the BarCARES Board of Directors, Council for the Local Government and Public Sector Section, and Council for the Juvenile Justice and Children's Rights Council. Mr. Hicks is a frequent speaker at legal education seminars having presented over eighty continuing legal education presentations. He is a member of the Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity and chief legal advisor for the fraternity. Mr. Hicks is a master member and vice president of the Guilford Chapter, American Inn of Courts and chair for the Program Review Committee, American Inn of Courts. He earned his B.A. degree from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville and his J.D. degree from Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law. Outside of the profession, Mr. Hicks is involved in the Masonic fraternity, United Methodist Church, and Scouting America (Boy Scouts). He is married to Dr. Megan Henley Hicks and they have two children, John Howard Hicks, II ("Jack") and Elizabeth Jane Hicks ("Libby").

started King Law in 2002, in a two-room office above a bar. He had the vision to create a firm that was built around business principles and taking care of clients. It is under his leadership the firm has grown from a small community firm to one of the largest and fastest-growing firms in the Carolinas. Mr. King has served as the attorney for the Rutherford County Department of Social Services, and the McDowell County Department of Social Services, been a member of the North Carolina Child Support Council. He co-authored the book "Navigating Adoption and Surrogacy Laws", published by Astapore, a Thomas Reuters business, in 2014. Mr. King is a member of the North Carolina and South Carolina Bars, and in 2009 became a Family Law Specialist. He has been elected as president of the Judicial District Bar and has served in various legal leadership positions. Mr. King has been involved in several Court of Appeals cases, with important and often referenced opinions. Community involvement within surrounding counties is also important to him as he actively serves and supports several local organizations including Adjunct Faculty at Isothermal Community College, Board of Directors/past-president Rutherford Life Services, The Robert & Janice McNair Educational Foundation Mentor, McDowell County Chamber of Commerce Guest Speaker, secretary of Rutherford County Bar Association, board member at Kidsenses and The American Society of Legal Advocates Top 100 Family Law Attorneys for 2016. Mr. King earned a bachelor's degree in political science from UNC Charlotte and went on to obtain his J.D. degree from Campbell Law.

is principal with Grant & Eisenhofer P.A., where he advocates for families and children in birth injury and birth trauma litigation. He has successfully litigated hundreds of cases and has served as first and second chair trial attorney in states including Illinois, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, Mississippi, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arkansas, Nevada, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, among others. Adept in every aspect of medical negligence cases, from pleadings and discovery to experts and trial, Mr. Aucoin is particularly effective during depositions — where, in his view, these types of cases are won or lost. With his sound footing in both law and medicine, he is regularly able to extract what really happened, in between the lines of what has (or, more likely, has not) been expressly written in a chart or ‘op notes.’ In addition to his 25+ years of experience, Mr. Aucoin also brings a valuable strategic perspective gleaned from previous defense-side roles. Prior to joining G&E, he worked at several medical negligence defense firms in the Chicago area, focusing on medical malpractice and professional liability as well as commercial litigation. Mr. Aucoin also was a senior trial attorney at a national insurance company. He earned his B.A. degree from Loyola University of New Orleans and his J.D. degree from Loyola University New Orleans School of Law.  He is admitted in Illinois, Louisiana and North Carolina.