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RALEIGH, N.C.—Womble Carlyle attorneys Charles Holton and Kurt Weaver have been honored as 2011 Leaders in the Law, awarded by North Carolina Lawyers Weekly. Winners were selected based on professional accomplishments as well as service to community and the legal profession.
 

Charles Holton has a long and extensive track record of pro bono service. Just recently, he was elected Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of Legal Aid of North Carolina. He has served on Legal Aid of North Carolina’s Board of Directors for the past two years. In 2013, he will become Chair.

In addition, Charles spent 10 years serving on the Board of Directors for Legal Aid of North Central North Carolina, which provides legal services to needy citizens in the Triangle region. He also is the Chairman of the Board of the Caris Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides housing for the poor in Durham and Chapel Hill and also medical and nutritional assistance in Honduras.

In his legal practice, Charles has more than 30 years of experience in handling sophisticated healthcare litigation matters including products liability defense involving pharmaceutical products and medical devices, and medical malpractice defense for major medical centers. He is also experienced in handling complex construction litigation and arbitration matters, as well as construction contracting.

Service to the United Way has been as much a part of Kurt Weaver’s professional life as his excellence as a product liability litigation attorney.

In 2011, Weaver was elected Chair of the United Way of the Greater Triangle’s Board of Directors. Weaver previously served as the Governance Committee Chair for United Way of the Greater Triangle. During his seven-year board tenure, he has led Johnston County United Way’s merger with UWGT, the organization’s name change and the creation and adoption of new constitutional by-laws. Weaver’s earliest experience with United Way was as a ‘loaned executive’ for the United Way of Greater Cleveland upon his graduation from the University of Notre Dame’s law school. A United Way supporter from that time on, Weaver has been involved with United Way as a donor, advocator and volunteer both in his professional career and private life. 

Weaver is also an experienced and aggressive trial lawyer whose practice includes complex commercial, toxic and mass tort, and products liability litigation matters. Throughout his nearly twenty years of practice, Weaver has successfully handled trials, arbitrations, and mediations for businesses ranging in size from Fortune 100 companies to local nonprofit concerns.

The 2011 Leaders in the Law were honored at a September 22^nd ceremony in Raleigh.