Volunteer Spotlights

Highlighting Pro Bono Attorney Angie Zimmern

Tell me about your regular practice area: Where do you practice and what do you do? What do you love most about your job? I am the firm’s first pro bono director.  I am responsible for supporting and guiding pro bono leaders in all of our offices, sustaining and growing our pro bono partnerships with...

Highlighting Pro Bono Attorney James Cronin

Tell me about your regular practice area: Where do you practice and what do you do? What do you love most about your job? I practice in workers’ compensation defense in Wilmington, NC with Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo LLP.  Specifically, my work allows me the opportunity to help many small businesses navigate claims and...

Highlighting Pro Bono Attorney Leora Moreno

Tell me about your regular practice area: Where do you practice and what do you do? What do you love most about your job? I’m an Assistant Public Defender with the Mecklenburg County Public Defender’s Office. Currently, I represent people charged with misdemeanors and property related felonies who can’t afford to hire an attorney. What...

Highlighting Pro Bono Attorney Carson Smith

Tell me about your regular practice area: Where do you practice and what do you do? What do you love most about your job? I am an Assistant Public Defender in Mecklenburg County. I have worked here since graduating from Wake Forest School of Law in 2016. I represent indigent clients who have been charged...

Highlighting Pro Bono Volunteer Kayla Frederickson

Tell me about your regular practice area: Where do you practice and what do you do? What do you love most about your job? I practice at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton in our Raleigh office. I’m part of the Labor and Employment team. I work on a variety of litigation matters and defend employers in...

Highlighting Pro Bono Volunteer Jonathan Bogues

A graduate of NC State and the North Carolina Central University School of Law, Jonathan Bogues has a long history of service to communities in the state of North Carolina both within and beyond the legal profession. He has dedicated himself to mentoring youth, particularly young African American men, empowering them to achieve their academic...

Highlighting Pro Bono Volunteer Starling B. Underwood III

–Tell me about your regular practice area: Where do you practice and what do you do? What do you love most about your job?  I am a Senior E-Discovery Attorney with Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton’s LitSmart® E-Discovery Team working in the Firm’s Winston-Salem office. The LitSmart team handles all operational e-discovery (collection through production) and...

Highlighting Pro Bono Volunteer Rachel Royal

NC Paralegals Leading the Charge for Pro Bono Tell me about your regular practice area: Where do you practice and what do you do? What do you love most about your job? I have experience in family law and insurance defense, but I currently am employed at the City Attorney’s office in Wilmington. I support...

Highlighting Attorney Volunteer Jarrad Smith

Jarrad Smith is an attorney with Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP in their Winston-Salem Office. Jarrad works as part of the LitSmart® E-Discovery Team, providing a wide array of e-discovery related services including legal guidance, end-to-end operational discovery and document review, in addition to serving as discovery counsel for many of their clients. After Hurricane...

Highlighting Attorney Volunteer Catherine Piwowarski

  Catherine Piwowarski is a former employment litigator who now works from home in New Bern while raising her children.  Catherine was called to action to help her community in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence: “So many people were left so badly off that I felt like anyone here whose home and possessions were not...