Ragsdale Liggett PLLC Partner Named To Meredith College Advisory Board

Ragsdale Liggett PLLC has announced that Dorothy Bass Burch, partner at the firm, has been named to the Advisory Board for the Meredith College Paralegal Program. As a board member, Burch will act as a sounding board for new ideas and tactics considered for the program, as well as provide industry knowledge to its director and instructors.

Burch is a Meredith College Alumna and Honors Scholar, receiving her bachelor’s degrees in American History and Political Science in 1988, graduating second in her class, summa cum laude. In May, she was presented with the 2007 Meredith College Career Achievement Award.

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News Facts:

· Dorothy Bass Burch, partner at Ragsdale Liggett PLLC, has been named to the Advisory Board for the Meredith College Paralegal Program.
· As a board member, Burch will act as a sounding board for new ideas and tactics considered for the program, as well as provide industry knowledge to its director and instructors.
· Burch is a Meredith College Alumnae and Honors Scholar, receiving her bachelor’s degrees in American History and Political Science in 1988, graduating second in her class, summa cum laude.
· In May, she was presented with the 2007 Meredith College Career Achievement Award.

Quotes:
"I am honored to be named to the Advisory Board for the Meredith College Paralegal Program," said Burch. "Those managing the program do an excellent job of helping the paralegal program stay current with the needs of the industries into which its graduates will hopefully be placed."

About Dorothy Bass Burch:
A Partner at Ragsdale Liggett PLLC, Dorothy Bass Burch practices in the firm’s corporate and real estate law departments. Dottie focuses her practice in business law, including day-to-day business counsel, business mergers and acquisitions, insurance regulatory law and commercial real estate transactions. She practices in a wide range of areas in these fields and manages younger lawyers in the firm. Dottie offers general strategic advice to the firm’s clients on a daily basis, including advice about contract negotiation, business strategies, corporate formation, management and dissolution, closing various types of financing and other transactions and assisting clients with insurance regulatory compliance and advocacy needs. She is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, a directory of top legal professionals designated by their colleagues as preeminent in their field. Dottie received her Bachelor’s Degrees in American History and Political Science from Meredith College in Raleigh, graduating second in her class, summa cum laude. Dottie went on to attend law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she received her Juris Doctor in 1991.

About The Meredith College Paralegal Program:
Created in 1979, Meredith College’s Paralegal Program is an ABA-Approved and North Carolina State Bar Qualified Paralegal Program. It is a post-baccalaureate certificate program for men and women who have previously earned a bachelor’s degree in any discipline, with the primary goal of introducing students to the study of law and the legal profession. The program’s focus is on the role of paralegals in assisting attorneys. The three concentrations—Civil Litigation, Business Organizations and Real Estate – and various electives – offer instruction in specific skills used by paralegals in each area of law. In addition, the program seeks to serve the local legal community with continuing education courses and to promote public awareness of the role of paralegals in the efficient delivery of quality legal services. The Paralegal Program has an Advisory Committee of attorneys, paralegals and laypersons from across the legal community providing input and making recommendations for changes to the program. For more information, visit http://www.meredith.edu/legal.

About Ragsdale Liggett PLLC:
The law firm of Ragsdale Liggett PLLC is comprised of lawyers with extensive legal expertise across a broad range of practice areas. Known for their innovations in the arena of corporate law, Ragsdale Liggett lawyers are equipped to handle all of a business' legal needs, including formation, day-to-day business counseling, acquisition, disposition, merger and dissolution of companies ranging in size from small local businesses to national financial institutions and large international insurance conglomerates. The diverse real estate practice group at Ragsdale Liggett handles a wide variety of real estate transactions, from residential purchases and sales to all aspects of commercial real estate development, including entity formation, final project completion, complex public and private bond financing transactions, and the privatization of university student housing. Since its formation in 1972, the firm has developed an extraordinary reputation in the area of civil litigation and has enjoyed significant courtroom successes ranging from local state courts to the United States Supreme Court in areas with far-reaching implications, such as insurance/reinsurance coverage disputes, shareholder derivative actions, ERISA disputes, professional negligence defense, catastrophic personal injury defense and complex construction disputes. For more information please call (919) 787-5200 or view the firm's Web site at http://www.rl-law.com.

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Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
919-233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com

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