About
Melissa Hill is a native of Asheville, North Carolina. She received her B.A. degree, magna cum laude, as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1984. She additionally attended law school at UNC, in which she turned into admitted to the Order of the Coif, was at the North Carolina Law Review and received her J.D. with honors in 1987. Ms. Hill is the writer of Tennessee v. Garner - The Use of Deadly Force to Arrest as an Unreasonable Search and Seizure, sixty five N.C.L. Rev. 155 (1986); and Branch Banking & Trust Company v. Wright - Creditors Rights to Entireties Property Awarded to Nondebtor Spouse Upon Divorce, sixty four N.C.L. Rev. 1471 (1986). Ms. Hill joined Tharrington Smith in 1987 and practices crook and civil litigation in kingdom and federal courts in North Carolina in addition to in other states. She has earned the pinnacle rating (AV®) in Martindale Hubbell. She is a member of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Wake County Academy of Criminal Trial Lawyers, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the American, North Carolina, and Wake County bar associations, and formerly served as an officer at the North Carolina Bar Association s Criminal Justice Council. › ›
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- Litigation
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- English
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Tharrington Smith
1987
Educations
Graduation year: 1987
Graduation year: 1984
