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RALEIGH, N.C.—Womble Carlyle attorney Elizabeth Arias has been sworn in as the new Chair of the Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association. Arias will serve a one-year term leading one of the largest and most active sections of the N.C. Bar Association. She was sworn in on July 21^st at the Section’s Annual Meeting in Kiawah Island, S.C.
 

The Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law Section, with more than 1,300 current members, sponsors CLE programs and services; publishes The Will and the Way newsletter on substantive legal topics; and helps mold the association's legislative agenda for presentation to the N.C. General Assembly.

Earlier this year, Arias was inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).

Elizabeth Arias provides estate planning and tax advice to clients across the state of North Carolina on a wide variety of issues, including creation and administration of irrevocable trusts, estate and gift tax issues, formation of limited liability companies (LLCs) or family limited partnerships, succession planning for family businesses, and formation of charitable trusts and foundations. Arias also maintains an active fiduciary litigation practice. She practices in Womble Carlyle’s Raleigh office.

Womble Carlyle is a full-service business law firm with a focus on innovative solutions to client needs. The firm supports the Association of Corporate Counsel in the ACC Value Challenge, which seeks to better align legal services with the needs of corporate clients.

The firm is located in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, and serves clients nationally and globally, with more than 550 attorneys in twelve offices: Atlanta; Charleston and Greenville, S.C.; Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem, N.C.; Washington, D.C.; Tysons Corner, Va.; Baltimore; and Wilmington, Del.

In the community, the firm is the first law firm to receive the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Corporate Leadership Award as well as the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Freedom Award.