Career
Addison Hewlett practiced law in Wilmington, North Carolina, as a partner of the firm known in his profile as Hewlett and Collins. The firm began in 1982 as Hewlett & Collins, when Addison Hewlett Jr., a Wilmington attorney who had been elected speaker of the North Carolina House in 1959, asked John Collins to become his partner. Collins had served as an assistant district attorney for the Fifth Prosecutorial District from 1979 to 1982, and the original partnership continued until Hewlett's death, according to the firm's own history.
The firm now operates under the name Hewlett, Collins & Allard, and its work centers on criminal defense and traffic law, including DWI defense, drug offenses, and federal criminal matters in state and federal courts. Hewlett's profile identifies his specialization as criminal defense trials, a field in which attorneys represent accused persons before juries and judges in a city that serves as the seat of New Hanover County.
