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").

is a partner with Davis Hartman Wright LLP. He practices appeals, North Carolina Constitutional law, and civil litigation throughout North Carolina. Martindale-Hubbell has rated Mr. Gibson as AV, and he has been recognized as a Rising Star by Thomson Reuters and Business North Carolina lists him among their Legal Elite for Appellate Practice. He has written articles for the North Carolina State Bar's Journal, North Carolina Lawyers Weekly, and the North Carolina Bar Association on appellate practice and civil procedure. Mr. Gibson is the co-author of Cemetery Law: The Common Law of Burying Grounds. He has taught CLEs for the Wake County Bar Association and North Carolina Bar Association, including Appellate Practice for Trial Work. In addition to private practice, Mr. Gibson is an adjunct professor teaching legal writing for Judicial Chambers at Wake Forest University School of Law. He earned his B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from Campbell University and his J.D. degree from Wake Forest University School of Law.

is a partner and the VP of compliance and operations at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin. She has over 15 years of experience in the areas of personal injury law, Social Security disability, domestic violence law, family law, and employment law. Ms. Taylor earned her B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina in communications studies and her J.D. degree from Mercer University, Walter F. George School of Law. She currently serves as the intake administrator and co-counsel liaison for the firm. In her dual roles, Ms. Taylor is laser-focused on trying to ensure that all clients receive quality representation whether she is offering guidance on incoming calls, building relationships with other firms, or serving as the director of intake and co-counsel liaison on case referrals. She is licensed in the state of North Carolina.

is a solo practitioner as well as a director of recruitment and employer development at North Carolina Central University School of Law. She focuses her practice on criminal, wrongful death, appellate, victim's of crime, contracts, housing, and tax. Ms. Billingsley earned her bachelor's degree from The Ohio State University and her J.D. degree from Cleveland State University - Cleveland-Marshall School of Law. She is a member of the American Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Norman S. Minor Bar Association, National Bar Association, Wake County Bar Association, West Shore Bar Association, and North Carolina Bar Association. Ms. Billingsley is admitted to practice law in Ohio, U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio, and the U.S. Tax Court.

is a Resident Superior Court Judge in Judicial District 10 in Wake County.

presides in the Designated Family Court for Buncombe County, North Carolina. She has served as a District Court Judge since 2012. As a Family Court Judge, Judge Dodson-Smith presides over equitable distribution, custody, child support, alimony, marital contracts and cases where third party businesses have been brought in through marital action. In addition, she hears cases involving child welfare, termination of parental rights, involuntary commitments, juvenile delinquency, and adult truancy. Prior to being a judge, she practiced law for approximately twenty years in Asheville, North Carolina with a focus on bankruptcy, guardianship, mediation and estates. Judge Dotson-Smith has been a certified superior court mediator and a mediator in matters before the clerk. She earned her A.B. degree from Duke University and her J.D. degree from Wake Forest School of Law.  A Winston-Salem native, Judge Dotson-Smith moved to the mountains with her husband in 1991, and they have been happy Buncombe County residents ever since.

is the managing partner of Robertson & Associates, a boutique commercial, construction and real estate litigation law firm located in Charlotte, North Carolina. He manages the firm's robust litigation practice, successfully and aggressively representing businesses and individuals throughout the Charlotte metropolitan area and across North Carolina. Mr. Robertson has tried numerous jury and bench trials to verdict, and since 2012 has recovered more than $75,000,000 for his clients. He primarily represents contractors, subcontractors and owners in construction disputes over workmanship and payment. Mr. Robertson also represents and defends hundreds of businesses and nonprofit organizations in all manner of transactions and disputes related to formation and governance, employment, policy development, contracts, and real estate; as well as licensed professionals, including real estate agents, plumbers, electricians, physicians, attorneys and other licensed professionals before their respective licensing boards. His firm handles a variety of non-litigation matters for its clients, including commercial real estate transactions, entity formation, estate planning, and estate administration. Mr. Robertson earned his B.A. degree at North Carolina State University and his J.D. degree at the Charlotte School of Law. He was admitted to the North Carolina State Bar in 2012, and is licensed to practice before all North Carolina courts and the United States District Courts for the Western, Middle and Eastern districts of North Carolina, as well as the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Professionally, Mr. Robertson is very engaged with the Mecklenburg County Bar, Mecklenburg Bar Foundation and North Carolina Bar Association.

is an attorney at James, McElroy and Diehl, P.A. Her practice focuses exclusively on family law, including issues related to child custody, child support, spousal support, equitable distribution, and domestic violence, as well as the issues of alienation of affection and criminal conversation. Ms. Weyandt is a magna cum laude graduate of Auburn University. She earned her J.D. degree from Wake Forest University School of Law.

is a sole practitioner as The Law Office of Jack Nichols, where his main areas of practice are public policy, administrative, labor and employment, occupational and professional licensing, regulatory and compliance, government, and commercial litigation. A formerly elected Wake County Court commissioner (1990-1994), he is admitted to practice before the North Carolina State Bar; Fourth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals; U.S. District Court Eastern, Eastern, Middle and Western districts; and U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Nichols is a member of the North Carolina and Wake County bar associations. He earned his B.A. degree from Davidson College, his M.P.P.S degree from Duke University and his J.D. degree from Wake Forest Law School. He is an adjunct professor of Campbell Law School and teaches administrative law.