Checking In: October 27, 2020

Connors Morgan is Now Revolution Law Group

Connors Morgan announced that the firm’s name is now Revolution Law Group. The new name derives from the firm’s current home, the Revolution Mill, located on the east side of Greensboro. The mill is a testament to the city’s history as it has stood for more than 120 years in its present location. Founded in 2005, Revolution Law Group serves Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem, and the surrounding Piedmont Triad region. Karen McKeithen Schaede and Scott Meyers are partners in the firm, and Jason Senges is counsel. Schaede, Meyers, and Senges offer a variety of legal services to businesses and individuals. In particular, they focus on health law, employment law, estate planning and administration, business law, civil litigation, and bankruptcy.

New Firm, Cordes Law, Opens in Charlotte

Cordes Law, PLLC opened Oct. 1 in Charlotte. Stacy C. Cordes founded the firm, which includes attorneys Ashley C. Foley and Meghan L. Abernathy. All three attorneys have worked together since 2016. The firm will provide legal services in family law litigation, bankruptcy, and debtor creditor litigation. Cordes is a graduate of Wake Forest University and Wake Forest University School of Law, and previously served on the NCBA Board of Governors and NCBF Board of Directors. Foley and Abernathy are both graduates of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and have both served on the Board for Women Lawyers of Charlotte and committees for the Mecklenburg County Bar and North Carolina Bar Association. Foley and Abernathy also volunteer for Council for Children’s Rights and Safe Alliance. All three attorneys are consistently selected as Super Lawyers, while Cordes and Foley have both been selected to Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite. Cordes, Foley, and Abernathy enjoy working together and collaborating in order to provide superior legal service to each client.

Mitchiner & Small, PLLC, Opens in Raleigh

James D. Small and Joseph H. Mitchiner have partnered as Mitchiner & Small, PLLC, with their new office at 805 Spring Forest Rd, Ste 100, Raleigh, NC 27609-9196, focused on estate planning and administration.

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Announces Attorneys from Shanahan Law Group Will Join the Firm

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough announced that the attorneys from Shanahan Law Group in Raleigh will join the firm beginning on December 1, 2020. Nelson Mullins was founded in 1897 and has offices in 11 states and Washington, D.C. Shanahan Law Group is a boutique law firm offering litigation and corporate law services. Kieran J. Shanahan, a former federal prosecutor, founded the firm. Shanahan is an experienced litigator who handles complex, high-stakes cases. His practice includes banking matters, business disputes, employment, and construction matters, as well as class action, administrative, and federal white-collar defense matters.

Attorneys from Shanahan Law Group who will join Nelson Mullins are partners Brandon S. Neuman and John E. Branch III; of counsel Andrew D. Brown, Christopher S. Battles, and Jeffrey J. Goebel; associates Jeffrey M. Kelly, Nathaniel J. Pencook, and Cassie A. Holt; and paralegals Christine Dillard, Sarah Strickland, and Christine McCaffrey. These attorneys focus their practice in matters ranging from strategic and risk management advice, regulatory and internal investigations, litigation, employment, business disputes, fraud, unfair competition, defamation, and federal and state constitutional questions.

Robinson Bradshaw Announces New Office in Raleigh

Robinson Bradshaw has opened an office in Raleigh. The office is located downtown in Two Hanover Square. Robinson Bradshaw is a corporate law firm and has been providing legal services to clients for 60 years. The firm has three other locations: Charlotte and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Rock Hill, South Carolina. Matt Sawchak, a former North Carolina Solicitor, Stephen Feldman, a litigator, and Sean Sullivan, an environmental attorney, have joined the firm’s new office. Other attorneys from the Charlotte and Research Triangle locations will also practice there.