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President’s Message
Welcome. I am excited to serve as president this year and build upon the goals of the past leadership. We will look for new ways to serve the members of our Bar and to promote professionalism, civility, and collegiality among our members. … Read More
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New Mindfulness CLE – How To Rock Your World: Five Tools To Get Regulated When the World Feels Rocky
Join your Buncombe County Bar colleagues and local attorney Laura Mahr for a free cutting-edge mindfulness and neuroscience-based CLE series. This is a new series created by Laura exclusively for our members! How Rock Your World: Five Tools to Get Regulated When the World Feels Rocky will be delivered virtually, and includes six hours of [...]September Bar Luncheon Photos
At the September Bar luncheon, several awards were finally handed to honorees in person. Due to the pandemic, some award winners from 2020 and 2021 had not yet received their actual award. Photos of the occasion are included here.View From The Bench CLE
The Buncombe Bar is hosting a one-hour free CLE featuring both District Court and Superior Court judges discussing professionalism in the courtroom. The View From The Bench will take place on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 in the jury assembly room on the second floor of the courthouse. Topics include pretrial briefs, voir dire, approaching judges, [...]
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Missy Spainhour Joins Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete
National labor and employment law firm Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete is pleased to welcome a new partner to its Asheville office, continuing an aggressive expansion that has brought eight new attorneys to the firm over the past month. Missy Sumerell Spainhour has joined the Asheville office as a partner. She has more than 20 [...]James W. Kilbourne, Jr., to Chair Appellate Practice Section
James W. Kilbourne, Jr., a partner at Allen Stahl & Kilbourne, PLLC, was named as the Appellate Practice Section Chair by Clayton D. Morgan, President of the North Carolina Bar Association. Kilbourne is the eleventh chair of the Section and the first from Western North Carolina. The North Carolina Bar Association is the largest voluntary [...]NCAWA Luncheon Invitation
Please join your fellow women attorneys for lunch on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 from 12:00 to 2:00 at Pack’s Tavern, located at 20 Spruce Street, Asheville. Please RSVP to wnc.ncawa@gmail.comNCAWA and YLD Connect For Fun
The Buncombe Women Attorneys, NCAWA and the Young Lawyers Division are having a happy hour get together on Wednesday, September 28th for $10 burger and beer/seltzer night at BHRAMARI Brewing Company , 101 S. Lexington Ave. Asheville. The event will take place from 5:30-7pm. And, on Tuesday October 25, we’ll host Taco Tuesday. For just $13, you’ll get 2 [...]Upcoming CLE, View from the Bench: Practical Tips from Trial Judges
Join the Mediation Center on Friday, October 21, 2022 from 1:30pm-4:45pm for View from the Bench: Practical Tips from Trial Judges. This live, ZOOM webinar will be moderated by Asheville attorney Senta Rhodes and include a panel of Superior Court Judges made up of: Alyson Grine (District 15B) David Hall (District 21B), Lori I. Hamilton (District [...]
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