Charles R. Holton elected to Board of Directors of Legal Aid of NC

July 6, 2009 Media Release

(Raleigh, NC) – Charles R. Holton of Durham was elected for to the board of directors of Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC) during the 2009 LANC Annual Meeting in Winston-Salem, NC.

Holton will serve on the LANC Board as a representative from the 14th Judicial District (Durham County).

Holton is an attorney and partner in the law firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, in Research Triangle Park, NC, and concentrates his practice in handling health care litigation matters. He is also experienced in handling construction litigation and contracting matters. Holton has been in litigation practice for more than thirty years, practicing in all area state and federal courts.

Holton is a 1973 graduate of the Duke University School of Law. Among his professional associations, Holton is a member of the NC State Bar; NC Bar Association; Braxton Craven Inn of Court; and the American Arbitration Association National Panel of Arbitrators. He also serves as an adjunct professor of law, teaching The Law and Practice of Arbitration at the Duke Law School.

Holton also has served on the Local Advisory Committee for the Legal Aid of NC-Durham Office and has demonstrated a long-term commitment to serving the low-income community through his work on his firm's pro bono committee. He has taken numerous pro bono cases referred by Legal Aid of NC and has also helped recruit new pro bono attorneys, train them and match them with different legal projects being handled by Legal Aid of NC.

Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC) is a statewide, nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services in civil matters to eligible, low-income people in all 100 counties in North Carolina through 24, geographically located offices in North Carolina. LANC’s clients typically have an annual income of 125% or less of the federally established poverty levels.
 

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CONTACTS:
Dock Kornegay (Director, Public Relations & Development, LANC),
Raleigh, NC, 919-856-2564

George R. Hausen, Jr. (Executive Director, LANC),
Raleigh, NC, 919-856-2564
 
Charles R. Holton (Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC), Durham, NC,
919-484-2309


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Legal Aid of North Carolina is a statewide, nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services in civil matters to low-income people in order to ensure equal access to justice and to remove legal barriers to economic opportunity.

 

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