Bruce received a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Tulane University in 1983 and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1986.
Bruce joined the firm in 1991 and has been a partner since 1995. He devotes the vast majority of his practice to defending employers, third party administrators, self-insured groups and insurance carriers in workers' compensation cases before the North Carolina Industrial Commission, North Carolina Court of Appeals and North Carolina Supreme Court.
Bruce is a frequent lecturer on North Carolina workers' compensation law, including papers and lectures he has presented at the annual meetings of the North Carolina Bar Association Workers' Compensation Section each year from 1997 through 2001 and 2003 through the present, and at the 2007 North Carolina Bar Association Seminar regarding Ethics in Workers' Compensation cases. At the request of the North Carolina Industrial Commission, he has also presented papers and lectured at its annual workers' compensation education programs each year since 2001. In addition, Bruce has lectured about workers' compensation law at continuing legal education programs produced by the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, Wake Forest University, North Carolina Institute of Government and Lorman Institute and the North Carolina Workers' Comp Form.
Bruce served on the North Carolina Bar Association Workers'
Compensation Council from 2001 to 2004, has been selected by his peers for listing in the 2001 through 2008 editions of The Best Lawyers in America, and was chosen to appear in the 2006 through 2008 editions of North Carolina Super Lawyers in the field of Workers' Compensation.
EDUCATION
University of Virginia School of Law, J.D. 1986
Tulane University, B.S. 1983
BAR ADMISSIONS
North Carolina
Massachusetts
California
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys
North Carolina Bar Association
Wake County Bar Association
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