Learning Academy receives supplies
The Lenoir County Unit of North Carolina Social Services Association recently made a donation to Sampson Alternative School -- Lenoir County Learning Academy. The donation is going toward helping the students with school supplies. From left are Sakethia Baker, school social worker; Diane Heath, principal; Rose Davis, NCSSA president; and Mrs. Robert King, NCSSA member.
Attorneys earn accolades
C. Gray Johnsey and Matthew S. Sullivan, both longtime members in the firm of White & Allen, P.A., have been selected for inclusion in the latest edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
Johnsey was selected in the Trusts and Estates specialty. This is Gray's 20th year of recognition. Sullivan was selected in the Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs specialty and has received this recognition for the last four years.
Selection is based on a peer-review survey comprising more than 2,000,000 confidential evaluations made by top attorneys from all over the United States. Because no fee or purchase is associated with Best Lawyers or its selections, inclusion is considered to be a unique honor.
Johnsey has handled tax, probate and estate and business planning matters in Eastern North Carolina for more than 30 years. He is a board certified specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law and a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. He is a member of the Southeastern Trust School Faculty at Campbell University.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from UNC; his master’s in business administration from ECU; his law degree from the Cumberland School of Law, Samford University; and his Master of Laws in Taxation from the University of Florida.
Sullivan’s practice is concentrated in the areas of catastrophic personal injury, industrial accidents, wrongful death, workers’ compensation, commercial and general civil litigation. He is a member of the North Carolina and American Bar Associations, the Eighth Judicial District Bar Association, the Lenoir County Bar Association, the North Carolina Advocates for Justice and the Eastern North Carolina Inn of Court.
He received his Bachelor of Science degree magna cum laude in administration of justice and public affairs in 1990 at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va.
He attended Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University where he was the Wiggins Scholar, editor-in-chief of the Campbell Law Review, Paul Dennis Award recipient, and inducted into the International Order of Barristers. He received his Juris Doctor magna cum laude in 1995.
White & Allen is a full-service law firm with offices in Kinston, New Bern and Snow Hill.
FSU chapter to hold alumni meeting
The Kinston-Lenoir Chapter of the Fayetteville State University Alumni Association will hold its alumni meeting at 6 p.m. Sept. 16 at the Georgia K. Battle Center, 401 Lincoln St.
All alumni, family members and friends of the FSU family are encouraged to attend. Graduates who live either in Lenoir, Greene or Jones counties are asked to participate.
FSU is the second-oldest public institution in North Carolina. A member of the University of North Carolina System, FSU has nearly 6,000 students and offers degrees in more than 60 undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
For more information, call President Burney at 252-527-1396.