Ragsdale Liggett PLLC Partner Receives Career Achievement Award

Ragsdale Liggett PLLC has announced that Dorothy Bass Burch, partner at the firm, has received the 2007 Meredith College Career Achievement Award. Established in 2002, this annual award is presented to an alumna who has dedicated herself to excellence in her profession as well as distinguished herself by notable achievement credited to her over a continual period of time. Past winners of this award include Martha Browning Dicus, Boyd
King Dimmock, Hunter Darden, Nancy Hall, Pat Nathan, Gwen Picklesimer Davis and Gail Brinn Wilkins. Burch was presented the award at the Meredith College Alumnae Awards ceremony held on Friday, May 18 at the Meredith College Chapel in Raleigh.

Burch was an Honors Scholar and received her bachelor’s degrees in American History and Political Science from Meredith College in the spring of 1988, graduating second in her class, summa cum laude. She later went on to attend law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she received her Juris Doctor in 1991. In 2006, she was honored with the "Women In Business Award" by the Triangle Business Journal, honoring her as one of 25 Triangle area female executives who have displayed exemplary leadership in business. Burch is a lifetime resident of Raleigh.

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News Facts:

· Dorothy Bass Burch, partner at Ragsdale Liggett PLLC, has received the 2007 Meredith College Career Achievement Award.
· Established in 2002, this annual award is presented to an alumna who has dedicated herself to excellence in her profession as well as distinguished herself by notable achievement credited to her over a continual period of time.
· Burch was presented the award at the Meredith College Alumnae Awards ceremony held on Friday, May 18 at the Meredith College Chapel in Raleigh.
· Burch was an honors scholar and received her bachelor’s degrees in American History and Political Science from Meredith College in the spring of 1988, graduating second in her class, summa cum laude. She later went on to attend law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she received her Juris Doctor in 1991.

Quotes:
"Receiving an honor such as this one is humbling, and made all the more special because it is from Meredith College, an institution already near and dear to my heart."

About Dorothy Burch:
A partner at Ragsdale Liggett PLLC, Dottie 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 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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