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Stephanie Hutchins Autry has been a trial lawyer since 1987 and has focused her practice on eminent domain since 2000. Before joining Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog as a partner in 1995, Stephanie was a partner in the Raleigh office of an international law firm. Stephanie’s career has included dozens of successful jury and bench trials and reported appellate decisions. For the last 15 years, Stephanie has concentrated her practice exclusively in the area of eminent domain, representing p...

Rebecca M. Schaefer is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Health Care Law. Rebecca M. practices law in Raleigh, North Carolina Best Lawyers has recognized Rebecca M. Schaefer since 2025. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Rebecca M. Schaefer is held by other lawyers.

A noted attorney with more than three decades of experience in complex business transactions, Reich Welborn handles mergers and acquisitions for both sellers and buyers and works with closely-held businesses in family succession, business protection and exit strategies. He has extensive knowledge in representing lenders, developers and tenants in a broad variety of financing and real estate transactions. Reich also advises corporate clients on major relocations, including site selection, acqu...

For more than 30 years, Mickey Spivey’s practice with Young Moore and Henderson has been in insurance law and regulation, and in business and commercial matters. Through long-time representation of the North Carolina Rate Bureau and the North Carolina Reinsurance Facility, he has extensive experience in setting rates and loss costs and promulgating policy forms and rating manuals, as well as in the general operations of the voluntary and residual markets, for automobile, residential pro...

Rod Malone is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Construction Law. Rod practices law in Raleigh, North Carolina Best Lawyers has recognized Rod Malone since 2024. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Rod Malone is held by other lawyers.

Phillip Cowan is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Family Law. Phillip practices law in Raleigh, North Carolina Best Lawyers has recognized Phillip Cowan since 2027. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Phillip Cowan is held by other lawyers.

Drew Patty is a partner with Phelps Dunbar, LLP in the firm's Intellectual Property and Cybersecurity Groups. He also leads the firm's Artificial Intelligence Working Group. With 30 years of experience in a broad range of transactional intellectual property matters and related litigation, he also has a growing AI and data privacy practice. His chemical patent experience includes patent preparation and prosecution in the fields of oilfield proppants and other downhole chemicals, refinery catal...

Joseph Alexander “Alex” Marshall is a 2015 graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill and earned his undergraduate cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Alex is an AV Preeminent Peer Rated Lawyer at Martindale Hubbell. He joined the criminal defense section of DeMent Askew & Johnson in 2021. For nearly six years Alex served Wake County as an Assistant Public Defender. Over that time he gained an unparalleled level of exper...

David E. Vtipil is a partner at Younce & Vtipil, P.A. the firm is located just outside of downtown Raleigh and caters to those who have been injured due to negligence. David is a board certified workers' compensation specialist in North Carolina but also practices personal injury and social security disability law.

3 Things to Know About Stan Abrams: He is the lead attorney for the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin’s eminent domain practice in North Carolina. He is a former Assistant Attorney General for the North Carolina Department of Justice who represented the North Carolina Department of Transportation. He is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.* Stan Abrams is lead attorney at the NC Eminent Domain Law Firm , a division of the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin . He is known throug...