Paralegal Studies - Classroom
Faculty
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.
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.
Julee Tate Flood has devoted much of her legal career to clerking in federal and state appellate courts in Maine, New Hampshire, and Tennessee. She finds writing for state supreme courts particularly challenging, where the case diversity includes criminal, civil, family, administrative, workers' compensation, and professional responsibility issues.
Julee is especially passionate about teaching. While serving most recently as Senior Judicial Law Clerk to Justice Gary R. Wade in the Tennessee Supreme Court, she also taught Legal Process for the University of Tennessee College of Law. During law school, she served as a teaching assistant for Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, and Legal Research, and she has taught Science, Technology, and Society for the Community College of Vermont.
As co-owner of multiple family businesses, Julee focuses on legal, employee, regulatory, and real estate matters. In addition to graduating in the top five percent of her class at Franklin Pierce Law Center, she holds both Masters of Science and Masters of Public Administration degrees and is admitted to practice in North Carolina, Tennessee, and New Hampshire. Julee, her husband, and four sons live in Holly Springs.
In addition to teaching and family business management, Julee is working with a team of pro bono attorneys that is drafting appellate documents for several policy organizations.
Connelia Z. Houston has practiced law in the Charlotte region for the past 13 years. She currently practices primarily in the areas of real estate, bankruptcy, estate planning and federal criminal law in private practice. Previously, she was employed through the Mecklenburg County Attorneys Office working with abused and neglected juveniles in conjunction with the Department of Social Services. She received her Juris Doctor from Tulane Law School and is a proud graduate of Davidson College in North Carolina.
Matthew Skidmore graduated from North Carolina State University in 2001, magna cum laude, earning his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management, with a Finance concentration. Thereafter, he earned his Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina in 2004. While at North Carolina State University, Matt served as President of Sigma Nu Fraternity. He was also inducted into the Golden Key Society and Order of Omega.
In law school, he served as both a staff writer and articles editor of the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology.
Matt joined our firm in 2004. He currently divides his practice between general civil defense litigation and workers' compensation. During his time at the firm, Matt has successfully tried cases in the North Carolina state courts, before the North Carolina Industrial Commission, and in multiple arbitration forums. He is admitted to appear in all of our state courts and before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina and he is a member of the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, North Carolina Bar Association and Wake County Bar Association.
Marla Rizzo Wolfe is the principal in a small litigation firm providing general counsel and legal advice to corporate clients and other business entities. For some twenty years, her practice has included litigation, mediation, and evidentiary proceedings in civil and criminal pleadings in state, federal and administrative tribunals; in-house human resource matters; technology, corporate methodology, and privacy rights; risk management; public and private business contracts; and industrial health, safety and security standards.
Prior to moving to Charlotte, Marla taught in paralegal degrees programs at The George Washington University and Georgetown University where she received a Faculty Colloquium Award in 2003 for her work on the development of innovative teaching strategies utilizing technology-enhanced teaching approaches and the impact of innovative pedagogies on student learning.
Marla served as Assistant District Attorney under Harry Connick, Sr., in New Orleans, where she was appointed to the Narcotics Strike Force, a four-attorney team of Special Prosecutors assigned to high profile felony cases involving career criminal drug offenders. Marla received a Juris Doctor degree from Loyola University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and French from the University of New Orleans. Marla, her husband and two sons live in South Charlotte.
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.