Background
Watts, Junior, Charles D. was born on August 20, 1955 in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
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Charles D. Watts, Junior.
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Bachelor of Arts, 1977). Howard University (Juris Doctor, 1985).
Career
Worked at Ferguson, Stein, Wallas, Adkins, Gresham & Sumter, P.A. (Charlotte, North Carolina) specializing in Civil Rights, General Civil, Criminal, Plaintiff"s Medical Malpractice, Trial and Appellate Practice. Probate and Real Estate Law. Admitted to the bar, 1986, Pennsylvania.
1987, District of Columbia.
1996, North Carolina. Author: Note, "Title VII--An Interpretation of the Bottom Lincolnshire Defense--Statutory Interpretation Versus Theoretical Purity--Connecticut v.
Teal," 27 How.L.J. 681, 1984. Author: "Corporate Legal Theory Under the First Amendment: Bellotti and Austin," 46 U.Miami.L.Rev.
317, 1991. Author: "In Critique of a Reductivist Conception and Examination of "The Just Organization,"" 50 Wash & Lee L.Rev.
1515, 1993. Author: "Private Ordering Versus Public Regulation in Corporate Law: Race in the Corporate Bastion--A Case in Point," 1992 Critical Legal Studies Conference, Boston, Massachusetts. Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University, 1988-1995.
Member: Napier-Looby (Member, Board of Directors, 1994-1995.
Chair, Committee on Judicial and Legislative Affairs, 1993-1994), American and National Bar Associations. American Civil Liberties Union (Member: National Board, 1994-1995. Board of Tennessee Affiliate, 1988-1995).
North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers, 1995.
Ferguson, Stein, Wallas, Adkins, Gresham & Sumter, P.A. is a multi-specialty law firm based in Charlotte, North Carolina, which has been in business since 1964. The firm was founded by Julius L. Chambers, who left the firm in 1984 to become Director-Counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Incorporated. in New New York
Currently there are a total of 15 attorneys from diverse backgrounds working in the Charlotte and Chapel Hill offices. The firm has a national and international reputation in school desegregation, employment discrimination, voting rights, general civil rights litigation, and criminal defense.
lieutenant is also nationally and regionally known for its representation of plaintiffs in personal injury and medical negligence cases, its work in teacher rights and education law, administrative law, workers compensation, and estates, business, corporate and real estate matters.
The firm encourages professional development and activities: many of its members hold leadership positions in a wide variety of professional organizations and regularly teach academic courses and at trial advocacy and continuing legal education programs.
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Membership
Member: Napier-Looby (Member, Board of Directors, 1994-1995. Chair, Committee on Judicial and Legislative Affairs, 1993-1994), American and National Bar Associations. American Civil Liberties Union (Member: National Board, 1994-1995.
Board of Tennessee Affiliate, 1988-1995).
North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers, 1995.
