Ragsdale Liggett PLLC Announces Addition To Lobbying And Government Relations Group

Ragsdale Liggett PLLC (www.rl-law.com), has announced that Lisa Piercy has joined the firm to direct its Lobbying and Government Relations Group. In this position, Piercy will lobby on behalf of the firm’s clients, as well as provide consulting services related to government agency matters.

The Ragsdale Liggett Lobbying and Government Relations Group maintains extensive knowledge in legislative and regulatory matters. Past and current clients include government agencies, public and private business entities and trade associations.

Piercy has more than twenty years of government relations experience. Prior to joining Ragsdale Liggett, she owned and operated a Triangle lobbying and consulting firm for 11 years. She has worked on the staff of United States Senator Terry Sanford and served as assistant secretary in the North Carolina Department of Administration and as an entrepreneurial development specialist for the North Carolina Department of Commerce for Governor James B. Hunt Jr. She was also appointed by Governor Hunt to a four-year term on the North Carolina Employment Security Commission.

Piercy received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and French from Meredith College. A native of Boiling Springs, N.C., she lives in Raleigh.

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News Facts:

• Ragsdale Liggett PLLC (www.rl-law.com), has announced that Lisa Piercy has joined the firm as director to direct its Lobbying and Government Relations Group.
• In this position, Piercy will lobby on behalf of the firm’s clients, as well as provide consulting services related to government agency matters.
• The Ragsdale Liggett Lobbying and Government Relations Group maintains extensive knowledge in legislative and regulatory matters.
• Past and current clients include government agencies, public and private business entities and trade associations.
• Piercy has more than twenty years of government relations experience.
• Prior to joining Ragsdale Liggett, she owned and operated a Triangle lobbying and consulting firm for 11 years.
• She has worked on the staff of United States Senator Terry Sanford and served as assistant secretary in the North Carolina Department of Administration and as an entrepreneurial development specialist for the North Carolina Department of Commerce for Governor James B. Hunt Jr.
• She was also appointed by Governor Hunt to a four-year term on the North Carolina Employment Security Commission
• Piercy received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and French from Meredith College. A native of Boiling Springs, N.C., she lives in Raleigh.

Quotes:
"We are honored to welcome Lisa to Ragsdale Liggett," said Frank Liggett, managing partner and a founding member at Ragsdale Liggett PLLC. "Her twenty years of industry experience will represent a key addition to our Legislative and Government Relations Group as it continues to grow."

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 www.rl-law.com.

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