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Faculty

David Burns practices in the areas of estate and tax planning, estate administration and elder law. His experience includes the preparation of simple and complex estate planning documents, representing clients in estate administration matters and advising clients of the transfer tax consequences of various estate planning transactions. Prior to joining the firm in 2006, David practiced in New York at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. David received his J.D., summa cum laude, from Albany Law School of Union University, where he served as Note and Comment Editor of the Albany Law Review and a chair of the Moot Court Board.David received his M.B.A., with honors, from The College of Saint Rose and his B.A. in political science from Geneseo State University of New York. David is also a member of the Order of Barristers.

 

John Nieman is a lawyer practicing primarily in the area of Criminal Law since 1992. He has been an instructor for the NC Conference of District Attorneys in the areas of trial advocacy, evidence and procedure. He has taught criminal law, property law, real estate, torts, contracts and civil procedure to paralegal students for over 6 years. John earned his J.D. from NC Central University.

L. Taylor Arnold is an author, inventor, and 2005 graduate of Wake Forest University School of Law. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Arnold worked as a permissions editor at an academic press and as a manager of a technology transfer start-up venture. He also founded a design company specializing in toy design and intellectual property licensing. A frequent contributor to Inventors’ Digest, Mr. Arnold holds several patents on items as diverse as archival products and cycling equipment. Building on his experience teaching Art Law workshops at the NC School for the Arts, Mr. Arnold is developing his practice by focusing on Entertainment and Intellectual Property Law.

 

Carrie Meigs attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was accepted into the School of Journalism and Mass Communication as a freshman.  She graduated in 1995 after only three years with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication in the public relations sequence.  Carrie then attended law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received her Juris Doctor degree in 1998.  While in law school, Carrie was a member of the school’s Invitational Moot Court team which earned first place in a national moot court competition and was subsequently invited to appear on C-Span.   Carrie received the James William Morrow, III award given annually to the most valuable member of the moot court bench and was also inducted into the National Order of Barristers.
After law school, Carrie joined a small defense firm in Greenville, North Carolina where she had extensive trial experience primarily in the areas of automobile and premises liability.  In 2000, Carrie moved to Raleigh where she became a partner with the firm of Patterson, Dilthey, Clay & Bryson, LLP and continued to have an active civil trial practice, trying dozens of cases to verdict throughout North Carolina.  She began to devote a significant portion of her professional time to the defense of medical and other professional malpractice claims, to the representation of physicians, nurses and dentists before their licensing boards, as well as to the representation of hospitals in a variety of matters.  She joined the firm of Teague, Campbell, Dennis and Gorham as a partner at the end of 2007. 
Carrie is a member of the North Carolina Association of Hospital Risk Managers, the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, the Defense Research Institute, the North Carolina Bar Association and the Wake County Bar Association.  She provides in-house education to clients on a variety of topics and also presents continuing legal education to other attorneys on the topics of trial preparation and strategy. 

 

Margaret Pickard, J.D. is an attorney, educator, and author.  She is admitted to practice law in California, Montana, and before the U.S. District Court, Ninth Circuit.  She sat as a Special Master over domestic violence cases in the Juneau, Alaska Superior Courts and later served as a family court mediator and guardian ad litem.  She developed a successful civil practice in Missoula, Montana, before joining the faculty of the University of Montana, where she taught family law and business organizations.  She is currently a faculty member of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and serves as a consultant for the Institute of Career Development, facilitating its online paralegal programs.  She is a guest lecturer at universities and civic organizations across the country, offering courses on business organizations, job strategies as well as parenting seminars.  She is the author of Business Organizations for Paralegals (West Legal Studies, 2001), Divorce and the Unbroken Circle of Love (Cedar Fort, 2006),Job Strategies for Paralegals (West Legal Studies, 2007), as well as numerous privately published materials.

Meg Sohmer Wood is a 1992 graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law. She is a trial and transactional attorney, with a specialty in litigation, who is admitted in North Carolina and New York. She currently practices with Klein & Freeman PLLC in Charlotte North Carolina.
She has previously taught Art Law in the Masters of Arts Administration program at UNC-Charlotte. She does pro bono work reviewing and preparing contracts and copyright filings for artists and performers.