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Planning
Your Estate is a joint project of the
North Carolina Cooperative Extension
Service, NC State University, and the
Elder Law Section of the North Carolina
Bar Association. The following
attorneys contributed to the development
of this project.
Project Coordinator: Carol A. Schwab Lynne E. Berry |
Lynne E. Berry has been the Legal Services Developer with the North Carolina Division of Aging since June 1999. Prior to this, she worked with the North Carolina Division of Medical Assistance in the Recipient and Provider Services Section. Before coming to North Carolina in 1997, Ms. Berry was with Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) in Boston, Massachusetts for seven years. She worked in the Elder Law Office of GBLS, with the Medicare Advocacy Project. Ms. Berry is a member of the North Carolina and Massachusetts State Bars.
Div. of Aging Telephone: 919-733-8395 (Elder Rights Section)
E-mail: Lynne.Berry@ncmail.net
Div. of Aging Website: } www.dhhs.state.nc.us/aging/home.htm
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Steve Clark is formerly with the law firm of Booth Harrington Johns & Toman, LLP, Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Larry Graham practices law in a small firm located in Greenville, North Carolina. Larry served as the Chair of the Elder Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association during the 1998-1999 fiscal year.
P. O. Drawer 7384
Greenville, NC 27835-7384
Phone: (252) 757-3535
Fax: (252) 757-3563
e-mail: lgraham@skantech.com
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Charles N. Griffin, III is an attorney with Kirschbaum, Nanney, Brown & Keenan, P.A., 300 West Millbrook Road, Raleigh, NC 27609. Mr. Griffin concentrates his practice in estate planning and administration, and elder law. Mr. Griffin may be reached at (919) 848-0420 or by email at cngriffin@abanet.org.
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Gregory Herman-Giddens, J.D., LL.M., P.A.
Mr. Herman-Giddens is a Board Certified Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law. He holds a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a J.D. from Tulane Law School, and an LL.M. in Estate Planning from the University of Miami School of Law. He is a member of the North Carolina and Florida Bars, with offices in Chapel Hill and Wilmington, North Carolina.
205 Providence Road
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514
Telephone: (919) 493-6351 or toll-free (800) 201-0413
Fax: (919) 493-6355
E-mail: ghgiddens@trustcounselpa.com
Website: http://www.trustcounselpa.com
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Sharon Lowe, Law Offices of P.M. Sharpe, PLLC. Ms. Lowe has practiced law for 15 years, concentrating in estate
planning and administration, business, and elder law. She has law offices in both Mt. Airy and Blowing Rock, North Carolina.
P. O. Box 1304, Mt. Airy, North Carolina 27030
Phone (Mt. Airy office): (336) 789-5187
Phone (Blowing Rock office): (828) 295-9295
E-mail: pmsharpe@advi.net
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Kate Mewhinney directs the Clinic for the Elderly, at Wake Forest University School of Law, in Winston-Salem. The Clinic's Web site is: http://www.law.wfu.edu/eclinic/. The Clinic is a program that allows law students to work directly with clients. Professor Mewhinney supervises upper level law students in client counseling, litigating and negotiating civil cases, drafting wills and other planning documents, and in administrative appeals. The course includes a weekly classroom session on lawyering skills and elder law topics, including Medicaid law. ALL clients must be screened for eligibility for the Clinic; no legal advice is provided by phone or via e-mail.
Before starting the Clinic for the Elderly in 1991, Professor Mewhinney was in private practice and legal services. She also taught trial practice at Wake Forest Law School for several years, as an adjunct professor. She got her J.D. degree from Northeastern University School of Law in 1978, and her B.A. from Tufts University in 1973.
Professor Mewhinney is Certified as an Elder Law Attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation (NELF). She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA), and served on its Board from 1995-1999. She now serves on the Council of the Elder Law Section of the N.C. Bar Association.
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Carol Schwab is the original project coordinator and developer for the Web program, Planning Your Estate. She left the practice of law and joined the faculty at NC State in 1988, where she was an attorney educator with the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service from 1988 until 2003. Her responsibilities with NC State included educating the general public about their legal rights and responsibilities. Her most requested programs involved estate planning and elder law issues. Currently, she is the Assistant Dean for Legal/Medical Education and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta.
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Dennis J. Toman is a partner with the law firm of Booth Harrington Johns & Toman, LLP in Greensboro, North Carolina.
He is a Board Certified Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law by the North Carolina State Bar. He is also a
Certified Elder Law Attorney (CELA) by the National Elder Law Foundation. Dennis currently serves on the Section
Councils for the Estate Planning and the Elder Law Sections of the North Carolina Bar Association
Prepared by Carol A. Schwab, J.D., LL.M., Professor and Extension Specialist, NC State University.
This publication is provided as a public service and is designed to acquaint you with certain legal issues and concerns. It is not designed as a substitute for legal advice, nor does it tell you everything you may need to know about this subject. Future changes in the law cannot be predicted, and statements in this publication are based solely on the laws of North Carolina in force on the date of publication.
Date: May 2001
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