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CHRISTOPHER B. GODWIN is a sole practitioner in Fayetteville. His principal areas of practice are criminal defense and real estate. Mr. Godwin is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association and the Lawyers Assistance Program of the North Carolina State Bar. He earned his B.S. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his J.D. degree from Wake Forest University School of Law. MARK A. MICHAEL is of counsel in the Charlotte office of Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo LLP. His practice is limited to insurance coverage. Before joining the firm, he was managing attorney of the Charlotte Legal Services Office for CIGNA/ACE, specifically responsible for coverage analysis and legal opinion letters in North and South Carolina. Mr. Michael is also an the adjunct professor of insurance at Charlotte School of Law. Active in the local Bar, he has served as a member of the Board of Directors and as chair of the Grievance and Fee Dispute Committees of the Mecklenburg Bar Association. Mr. Michael received his B.S. degree from Providence College and his J.D. degree from Duke University. STEPHEN M. RUSSELL is a member of Bell, Davis & Pitt, P.A., where he practices in the areas of business torts, contracts litigation, condemnation/eminent domain, appellate practice, civil litigation, legal malpractice, personal injury, personal liability, professional malpractice, unfair competition, property tax litigation, and insurance litigation. Mr. Russell is a member of the Forsyth County Bar Association, the North Carolina Bar Association and the 21st Judicial District Bar. He earned his B.S. degree, with honors, and his M.A. Ed. Degree from East Carolina University, and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Wake Forest University. Mr. Russell is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western districts of North Carolina and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. He is president of the Fee Dispute Resolution Committee for Forsyth County. JEREMY A. STEPHENSON is an attorney with McNair Law Firm, P.A., where he provides counseling and litigation services to management clients in employment matters. He has successfully defended employers before administrative agencies around the country, and the state and federal courts in North Carolina, against claims of employment discrimination, wrongful termination, breach of contract, and wage and hour violations, and represents businesses in the enforcement of non-compete and similar agreements. Mr. Stephenson advises management on wide ranging topics of employment law compliance, including the avoidance of employee claims, the review and drafting of employment contracts and policies, and development and presentation of employee training programs. He regularly publishes articles and is invited to speak on employment law topics. Mr. Stephenson is currently serving as the chair of the Employment Law Committee for the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Charlotte Area Society of Human Resource Managers. He also has extensive experience providing insurance coverage counseling and litigation services on Employment Practices Liability Insurance (EPLI), Directors and Officers (D&O), General Liability (GL), Errors & Omissions (E&O), and other lines of coverage including declaratory judgment and bad faith litigation and appeals. Mr. Stephenson also litigates in the state and federal courts of North Carolina in cases pertaining to professional liability, products liability and other areas of civil liability. He is a member of the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys (chair, Employment Law Committee), Judgment Area Society of Human Resource Managers (board member), North Carolina Bar Association (member, Employment Law Section), Mecklenburg County Bar Association, Defense Research Institute (member, Employment and Insurance Committees), Risk and Insurance Management Society and Council for Children's Rights (pro bono attorney). Mr. Stephenson earned his B.A. degree from the University of Virginia and his J.D. degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
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