Sharon G. Scudder

Associate
sscudder@tcdg.com
Telephone: (919) 873-0166
Facsimile: (919) 873-1814

Areas of Practice:
Civil Litigation
Construction Litigation
Government and Municipal Law
Medical Malpractice
Products Liability
Professional Liability
Real Estate Litigation

Sharon attended North Carolina State University as a National Merit Scholar and graduated cum laude in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry and a Bachelor of Science degree in Science Education. She was a National Sertoma Scholar and Graduate Teaching Scholar at Radford University, from which she earned a Master of Arts in Communication in 2001 and received the Graduate School's award for the Most Outstanding Research Thesis. She earned her Juris Doctor degree with magna cum laude distinction from Campbell University School of Law in 2007.

Prior to attending law school, Sharon was a clinical Audiologist, and she continues to be a licensed and certified Audiologist (CCC-A). Her clinical research article "Predictive Validity and Reliability of Adult Hearing Screening Techniques" was published in the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology in April 2003, she has given multiple state and national conference presentations on subjects in the field of audiology and, in March 2008, her article "Liability Issues in Clinical Practice" was published in Perspectives on Administration and Supervision.

While in law school, Sharon won the Campbell University Intramural Moot Court Competition and she also competed successfully as a member and swing leader of two national moot court teams. In addition, she served as Comments Editor of the Campbell Law Review, in which her article "With Friends Like You, Who Needs a Jury?" was published in the fall of 2006. Sharon also served as a Supreme Court case summary writer for the Campbell Law Observer, worked for Professor Patrick Hetrick as a Webster Scholar, served as a Legal Research and Writing Scholar, interned at the North Carolina Supreme Court, won the I. Beverly Lake Award for Outstanding Contribution to Constitutional Law, and earned Book Awards for the most outstanding academic achievement in Torts II, Advanced Trial Advocacy, Legal Research and Writing, Pre-trial Litigation, Property II, Professional Ethics, Constitutional Law II, Advanced Real Property III, Christian Legal Perspectives, and Constitutional History: The Roots of Civil Rights Legislation. At graduation, Sharon was inducted into the Order of Old Kivett for excellence in lawyering skills and ethical standards and received the Fred O. Dennis Award for outstanding representation of the Campbell University School of Law to the community, profession and public.

Sharon joined our firm in September 2007. She is a member of the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, North Carolina State Bar, North Carolina Bar Association, The Susie Sharp Inn of Court, Wake County Bar Association and the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA).