Carrie E. Meigs, Esq.

Partner

Areas of Practice
Insurance Law and Coverage
Medical and Dental Malpractice Defense
Motor Vehicle Negligence
Nursing Home Litigation
Premises Liability
Professional Liability
Trucking and Commercial Transportation

Biography

Carrie attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from which she graduated in three years with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Mass Communication in the public relations sequence. She 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 UNC Invitational Moot Court Team that earned first place in a National Moot Court competition and was subsequently invited to appear on C-Span. She also received the James William Morrow, III Award, which is given annually to the most valuable member of the Moot Court Bench, and was inducted into the National Order of Barristers.

After law school, Carrie joined a small defense firm in Greenville, North Carolina, where she obtained extensive trial experience, primarily in the areas of automobile and premises liability. In 2000, she moved to Raleigh, where she has continued to have an active civil trial practice, trying dozens of cases to verdict throughout North Carolina. She also 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 and to the representation of hospitals in a variety of matters.

Carrie joined our firm as a partner in January 2008. She is a member of the North Carolina Association of Hospital Risk Managers, North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, Defense Research Institute, North Carolina Bar Association and Wake County Bar Association. She provides in-house education to clients on a variety of topics, regularly provides continuing legal education to other attorneys on the topics of trial preparation and strategy, and has also been an instructor with the Duke University Paralegal Certificate Program, where she teaches a substantive course on torts. In 2010 Carrie was designated a “Rising Star” in the North Carolina edition of Super Lawyers.

Practicing: Medical and Mental Malpractice, Nursing Home Litigation, Premises Liability, Trucking and Commercial Transportation Law