Helms Mulliss & Wicker PLLC - Six Attorneys Promoted to Members at Charlotte's Helms Mulliss & Wicker

Helm Mulliss & WickerStore this angel in big sizeCHARLOTTE, N.C. (January 15, 2008)—Helms Mulliss & Wicker, PLLC (HMW), a law close practicing in accumulated law, accounts and litigation, appear today that six accessory attorneys: Jill Crawley Griset, J. Kate Harris Hatcher, Matthew John Hoefling, Brian Kahn, Ingrid Olson McClintock and Amy Reeder Worley accept been adopted to affiliate status. All anew adopted associates are based in the firm’s Charlotte office.

Equivalent to a accomplice status, acclamation to associates at HMW from accessory advocate is based on able excellence, leadership, charge to applicant account and the individuals's approved adeptness to advance in a ability of teamwork and collaboration. Including those appear today, the close has 67 affiliate attorneys.

“This is an outstanding accumulation of attorneys who accept acclaimed themselves in abounding means – accomplishing accomplished plan for our clients, accidental to the association and allowance in every way to body our firm,” said HMW Chairman and Managing Member Peter Covington.

Jill Griset abutting the action convenance accumulation in 1997. Griset has accurate ability in the across of cyberbanking discovery, with acquaintance apery accumulated audience responding to e-discovery requests, as able-bodied as accumulated audience propounding e-discovery. She is the editor-in-chief for E-Discovery, a account newsletter that highlights e-discovery issues, strategies in administration these issues and contempo notable cases accompanying to e-discovery. Griset accelerating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before accessory law academy at the University of Virginia, she formed for a law close in Washington D.C.

Kate Hatcher, a affiliate in the accumulated convenance group, commonly represents licensors, licensees and collective owners in a array of Internet and computer-related issues, including software, e-commerce, licensing, distribution, trademarks, account marks and copyrights. Hatcher frequently handles issues involving Web website development, aliment and hosting agreements from both the bell-ringer and chump perspectives, as able-bodied as allocation of rights in area names and added affairs apropos brand usage, absorb infringement, aspersion and aloofness rights on the Web and in e-mail. Prior to abutting the firm, Hatcher served as centralized admonition for two ample about traded North Carolina-based companies. Hatcher accustomed her J.D. from Wake Forest University, and her B.A. from the University of Virginia. IP licensing armchair for the North Carolina Bar Association, Hatcher is aswell the carnality armchair for the Alexander Youth Network Board of Directors, and a founding affiliate of TEN, a Charlotte women’s networking group.

Matt Hoefling, a affiliate in the action convenance group, specializes in the areas of balance litigation, authoritative and centralized investigations and white-collar bent defense. From 2002-2004, Hoefling served as an abettor U.S. Attorney in Charlotte, area he was amenable for investigating and prosecuting money-laundering, character theft, case artifice and wire artifice crimes, a allotment of others. Hoefling served as a law agent for the Honorable Richard L. Voorhees of the U.S. District Court for the western commune of N.C. from 2000-2001. He aswell ahead accomplished in Washington, D.C. with Jones Day. Hoefling accustomed both his J.D., cum laude, and his B.A., cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame.

Brian Kahn’s action convenance focuses on circuitous business action and articles liability. He aswell has acquaintance administration blameworthy death, allowance coverage, environmental, architecture and application cases. Kahn represents audience in a advanced arrangement of industries including manufacturing, retail, insurance, media, banking services, advice technology, and telecommunications. A 2001 chic affiliate of the Charlotte Chamber Leadership School, Kahn is aswell the co-founder and arch biographer of Charlotte SQUAWKS, an anniversary abusive agreeable analysis dabbling fun at the city-limits of Charlotte, that afresh won the Metrolina Theater Award for Best Special Event.

Ingrid McClintock is a affiliate in the accounts convenance group, accurately the amalgamated accounts team, which includes amalgamated lending accessories for leveraged, recapitalization and accretion transactions. McClintock accustomed both her undergraduate amount and law amount from the University of Virginia, area she served as online autograph editor for the Virginia Tax Review during law school. In addition, she accustomed her Masters in Planning from the University of Virginia School of Architecture. Prior to abutting HMW, McClintock accomplished in the across of banking casework with McGuireWoods in Charlotte.

Amy Worley, a affiliate in the action convenance group, focuses her convenance on bartering and banking casework litigation. She aswell has acquaintance in application discrimination, allowance and hour, ERISA, noncombatant rights, securities, and claimed abrasion litigation. Worley has approved cases in accompaniment and federal court. She has represented audience in arbitration, accompaniment accurate hearings and at the accompaniment and federal courts of appeals. Worley accustomed both her J.D. and B.A. from Mercer University, area she was the valedictorian of her law academy class. She is a above carnality armchair for the Regional HIV/Aids Consortium and accustomed the Governor's World Aids Day Award for Volunteer Service. Worley aswell represents calm bribery victims pro bono.

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About Helms Mulliss & Wicker:
HMW is accustomed as one of America’s Best Law Firms by Corporate Board Member magazine, ranked as a Top Ten Bond Counsel by The Bond Buyer, ranked "Highly Recommended" in Benchmark: Litigation, The Definitive Guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys and is called a "Go-To Law Firm" by Corporate Counsel magazine. The close is comprised of 145 lawyers, 20 who are appointed Super Lawyers in the 2007 North Carolina Super Lawyers magazine, 23 who are accustomed by Best Lawyers in America and 13 are appointed Legal Elite by Business North Carolina magazine. HMW focuses on three primary convenance areas: bartering litigation, circuitous accounts and accumulated law. Within these practices, specialty areas include: government relations, securities, bookish property, mergers & acquisitions, employer services, clandestine disinterestedness and others. The close represents Fortune 100 companies and the nation’s better banking institutions as able-bodied as abounding high-growth and start-up companies. Helms Mulliss & Wicker’s offices are in Charlotte, Raleigh and Wilmington, NC. For added information, appointment www.hmw.com. www.hmw.com.