Our Attorneys
Biographies of Our Attorneys Available to Assist You:
William W. Bland, former ADA for the Eighth Prosecutorial District serving Wayne, Lenoir, and Greene Counties; Past President of the Eight Judicial District Bar; Graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law, North Carolina Law Review Staff Member, Inducted upon graduation into the Davis Society, an honorary organization, Honor Court Justice, Mere Dictum (law school newspaper) editor-in-chief; Graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flager Buisness School, Master of Accounting, Received the Outstanding Achievement Award, Awarded the Carl Clinton Scott Scholarship; Graduate of Duke University, AB, cum laude.
Sarah L. Heekin, Past President of the Eighth Judicial District Bar; Past President of the Wayne County Bar Association; Graduate of Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, Campbell University, cum laude; Former Research Assistant to Professor Richard Lord’s treatsie Williston on Contracts; Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, an honorary organization; Member and Managing Editor Campbell Law Review; Graduate of UNC-Greensboro, B.A. Political Science, minor in English, cum laude; Inducted into Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society; Member North Carolina Advocates for Justice.
Gay Parker Stanley, Former Judicial Law Clerk to Justice John Webb, North Carolina Supreme Court; Graduate of Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama, J.D., Cum Laude, 1995; Graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, BA, 1992; Graduate of St. Mary’s College, Raleigh, North Carolina, AA, 1990; Former Insurance Defense Counsel; Research and Writing Editor and Member of American Journal of Trial Advocacy; Former Research Assistant, Professor Stephen Ware, Cumberland School of Law; Former Judicial Extern, Judge Marvin Cherner, Civil Circuit Court of Alabama, Jefferson County; Former Cordell Hull Teaching Fellow, Cumberland School of Law; Former Member Eastern North Carolina Inns of Court; Practice Focus in Civil Litigation, Family Law and Personal Injury.
Donald B. Strickland, United States Air Force Veteran, Retired as Colonel, JAG; Former Chief Trial Judge, United States Air Force; Retired ADA for the Eight Prosecutorial District serving Wayne, Lenoir and Greene Counties; Graduate of Duke University with a degree in Business; Graduate of University of Maryland with a degree in Internatinal Studies; Graduate of Duke Univeristy Law School; Graduate of National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada. (Retired.)
R. Michael Woodard, A member of both the North Carolina and Alabama Bar; Graduate of Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia, J.D., 2006; Member of the Moot Court Board; Former Research Assistant, Professor Joe Tucker; Graduate of Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia, B.S., Business Finance, cume laude, 2003.
