Patrick M. Allen

Forrest Campbell represents health care providers, including physicians, hospitals, surgery centers, assisted living facilities, health care trade associations, and others, and helps them navigate the myriad federal and state laws that govern the health care industry. The 2019 Chambers USA guide quotes a client stating that, "Forrest is a skilled communicator and a creative and innovative strategist.” Many arrangements between health care providers have the potential to trigger complian...

John Flynn supports a variety of commercial clients in the finance sector, including national and state banks, insurance companies and institutional lenders. His practice regularly handles matters involving debtor and creditor rights, loan workouts and other loan transactions. He is especially focused on bankruptcy preference actions and asset-based lending and factoring for secured commercial loans. In addition, John is our firm’s chief counsel on environmental matters – helping ...

Bill McNairy advises businesses on structuring private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, and going private transactions. Bill is a CPA who uses his accounting experience to counsel family-owned businesses on issues related to tax law, trusts and estates, and tax saving strategies. Bill has an active private equity practice. He regularly assists funds with their portfolio company investments, acquisitions and fund formation matters. Bill has worked with a wide va...

Seth Cohen has spent his legal career fighting against discrimination and advocating for people whose civil rights and civil liberties have been violated or infringed. The veteran labor and employment, civil rights and civil liberties attorney is Of Counsel at the Deuterman Law Group. In this senior role, he represents clients in their labor and employment claims. He works closely with the rest of the DLG team to ensure that our workers’ compensation, Social Security Disability, VA Disa...

Bryan Scott focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, construction law, and creditors’ rights.Bryan handles commercial litigation and creditors’ rights matters covering a range of areas, including contract disputes, collections and foreclosures, lender liability, title issues, insurance coverage, warranty claims, secured transactions, patent and trademark infringement, unfair trade practices and competition, shareholder disputes, fiduciary claims, and products liability.

Kearns Davis is an acclaimed courtroom advocate, a veteran of both high-profile cases and sensitive matters resolved confidentially. A former federal prosecutor and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, he has tried jury cases at all levels of federal and North Carolina trial courts, and he represents clients in U.S. trial and appellate courts across the country. His clients have included public companies, private businesses, elected officials of both major parties, Hall of Fame ...

Roberta King Latham is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Employment Law - Individuals, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs. Roberta, who practices law in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has been recognized since 2021. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Roberta is held by other top lawyers in ...

My practice is a mix of business litigation and insurance cases. I regularly represent clients in state and federal courts throughout NC in business disputes. Typical claims are: breach of contract, tortious interference with contract, unfair competition, fraud, defamation, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair and deceptive trade practices, and other statutory violations. I have represented both policyholders and insurers in insurance coverage disputes. I also represent dentists in ma...

Jeffrey T. Skinner is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law, Financial Services Regulation Law, Securities / Capital Markets Law and Securities Regulation. Jeffrey T., who practices law in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has been recognized since 2021. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Jeffrey T. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Sara advises businesses and their owners on tax, estate planning and business matters from formation through exit and all along the way. Sara enjoys working closely with our clients and their other advisors to resolve complex problems, paying careful attention to the considerations most important to the client. Sara has extensive experience advising clients on all aspects relating to taxes, including income, estate, gift and generation skipping transfer taxes. Sara’s experience at prepa...