Lawyer Bio : William C. Raper

Mecklenburg County Bar Association, Member, Fee Disputes Arbitration Committee, Managing Partners Forum; North Carolina Bar Association, Litigation Section; American Bar Association, Litigation Section; CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution; Member, Securities Dispute Committee (1988-1991), Member, Law Firm Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee (1990-91); Charter Member, North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys; Listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Business Litigation), 1993 to present; Listed as top-ranked business litigator in North Carolina in Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers, 2003 to present; Top 100 Lawyers in North Carolina Super Lawyers; Listed in Legal Elite (Litigation); Regional Loss Prevention Partner for all North Carolina and South Carolina member law firms of Attorneys Liability Assurance Society; Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers.

Admitted to the bar 1972, North Carolina. Admitted to practice before all North Carolina State Courts; the United States Eastern, Middle and Western District Courts of North Carolina; the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; and the United States Supreme Court.

Articles in Vanderbilt Law Review and professional journals; Lecturer and author, Professional Malpractice Seminars, Wake Forest University School of Law; Lecturer, various CLE seminars involving trial practice, ethics and malpractice avoidance.

Contributor, Model ADR Procedures, ADR in Securities Disputes, Center for Public Resources, Inc., 1991;

Advisor, Law Firm Policy Statement on Alternatives to Litigation, Center for Public Resources, Inc., 1991.

Lecturer, "Ensuring Effective Law Firm Risk Management," ALAS, Puerto Rico, 1996;

Lecturer, "The New North Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct, Ethics and Lawyers Liability Issues," Charlotte, Winston-Salem and Raleigh, NC, 1998;

Lecturer, "Conflicts Handling in Complex Business Transactions," ALAS, Toronto, Canada, 1999.

Presenter, Jury Focus Group: Presentation of a Legal Malpractice Case, ALAS, Whistler, Canada, 2002;

Panelist, "The Impaired Lawyer: Challenges to Law Firm's," video produced by ALAS, Chicago, 2002.

Government Experience
Legal assistant to Senator Sam Ervin, Jr., United States Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, Washington, DC, 1970.

Firm Responsibilities
General Counsel to the Firm.