Sharon attended North Carolina State University as a National Merit Scholar, graduating 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 and earned a Master of Arts in Communication Disorders in 2001. She received her Juris Doctor degree magna cum laude 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). While in law school at Campbell University, she won the Intramural Moot Court Competition, competed successfully as a member and swing leader of two national moot court teams, served as Comments Editor of the Campbell Law Review, 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 was also presented with the Fred O. Dennis Award for her outstanding representation of the Campbell University School of Law to the community, profession and public.
Sharon's publications include "Predictive Validity and Reliability of Adult Hearing Screening Techniques", published in the April 2003 Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, and "With Friends Like You, Who Needs a Jury? A Response to the Legitimization of Conceding a Client's Guilt", which was included in 29 Campbell Law Review 137 (Fall 2006). She joined our firm in 2007 and focuses her practice on general civil litigation, including construction law, real estate litigation and medical malpractice.
EDUCATION
Campbell University School of Law, 2007, J.D.
Radford University, 2001, M.A.
North Carolina State University, 1989, B.A.B.S.
BAR ADMISSIONS
North Carolina, 2007
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina, 2007
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys
North Carolina State Bar
North Carolina Bar Association
Wake County Bar Association
American Speech-Language Hearing Association
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