About
Mr. Watts is a native of Raleigh, North Carolina and attended Elon University, wherein he played varsity basketball and received numerous academic honors. After graduating from Elon in 2011, Mr. Watts worked as a seasoned bono intern on the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Raleigh, North Carolina.
In August 2012, Mr. Watts back to Elon University School of Law to start his criminal research as a Presidential Scholar. While in law college, Mr. Watts served as the Symposium Editor of the Elon Law Review, competed on behalf of the Elon Law Moot Court Board, mentored college students as a Dean’s Fellow, and worked within the community as a Leadership Fellow. Mr. Watts received the ebook award for Lawyering, Leadership, and Professionalism and turned into named to the Dean’s List all six semesters of law college.
During law faculty, Mr. Watts labored as a summer season clerk for the Honorable W. Earl Britt of the USA District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and as a fall clerk for Chief Judge James L. Gale of the North Carolina Business Court. He finished internships with SAS Institute, the United States Lawyer’s Office Appellate Division, and the Wake County District Lawyer’s Office. Under the North Carolina State Bar’s 0.33-12 months exercise rule, Mr. Watts became trying—and prevailing—jury trials before he graduated regulation faculty. In doing so, he have become the primary intern to win a felony jury trial as lead suggest in the Wake County District Lawyer’s Office.
In May 2015, Mr. Watts graduated from Elon Law cum laude, obtained the North Carolina Advocates for Justice Award, and become inducted into The Order of Barristers. Upon commencement, Mr. Watts clerked for the Honorable Robert N. Hunter, Jr. of the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
Mr. Watts joined Whiteman Law corporation in 2016. He welcomes all capacity clients without regard to sexual orientation, pores and skin colour, gender, nationality, physical or intellectual boundaries, faith or lack thereof.
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Graduation year: 2012
Graduation year: 2007
Graduation year: 2007
