Date Founded: June 1907

Founders: Kingsland Van Winkle and Thomas J. Harkins

Offices: Asheville: 11 North Market Street
Hendersonville (since 1988): 422 South Main Street

Attorneys:

• Marla Adams*
• Jones Byrd
• Carolyn Coward
• Dale Curriden
• Roy Davis
• Tracy Diefenbach
• Scott Dillin
• Cynthia Eller
• Stephen Grabenstein
• Robert Haggard
• Larry Harris
• James Johnson		 • Diana Armatage Johnston*
• Craig Justus
• John Kelso
• Barry Kempson
• Matthew Kitchens
• Caroline Knox
• Brian Lavelle
• Armistead Long
• Esther Manheimer
• Larry McDevitt
• Carleton Metcalf
• Anna Mills
• Mark Pinkston
 • Suzannah Plemmons
• Michelle Rippon
• Adam Shealy
• Kristen Smith
• Philip Smith
• Albert Sneed
• O.E. Starnes
• Allan Tarleton
• Mike Thompson
• Claire Vujanovic
• David Wilkerson
• Jeffrey Zentner
* of counsel

Practice Areas:

• Administrative & Regulatory Law
• Antitrust & Trade Regulation
• Bankruptcy
• Business & Succession Planning
• Business Disputes
• Business Entity Formation
• Charitable & Conservation Planning
• Commercial & Residential Real Estate
• Construction
• Corporate Representation
• Creditors’ Rights & Collections
• Elder Law & Disability Planning
• Environmental Law		 • Estate Planning & Administration
• Healthcare
• Insurance Claims & Disputes
• Intellectual Property
• Labor & Employment
• Land Use
• Litigation
• Mergers, Acquisitions & Business Dissolutions
• Real Property, Financing, Leases & 1031 Exchanges
• Securities
• Taxation
• Trust & Estates Disputes

Industries Served:

• Agriculture
• Banking & Lending
• Condominiums & HOAs
• Construction & Professional Design
• Entertainment
• Food Services, Grocers & Suppliers		 • Healthcare
• Manufacturing
• Nonprofits & Foundations
• Public Utilities & Telecomm
• Real Estate Development
• Travel & Tourism

Recognitions:

Van Winkle’s attorneys are regularly honored by their peers in national and state publications. 2007
recognitions include:

• Best Lawyers in America

- Jones Byrd
- Cynthia Eller
- Barry Kempson
- Brian Lavelle 		- Larry McDevitt
- Philip Smith
- Albert Sneed

• Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite

- Robert Haggard
- Larry McDevitt 		- Philip Smith
- Albert Sneed

• North Carolina Super Lawyers

- Robert Haggard
- Barry Kempson
- Brian Lavelle		 - Larry McDevitt
- Adam Shealy
- Allan Tarleton

Community Service:
• The Give 100 Campaign

- Van Winkle has partnered with the Asheville Art Museum to match dollar-for-dollar up to $50,000 in donations to the museum’s Literacy Through Art (LTA) program in 2007.
- LTA sends artists into classrooms throughout Western North Carolina to work with youth on projects that combine the visual and performing arts with reading and writing.
- Without LTA, many schools would be left with as little as 25 cents per child per semester for arts education.
- Part of the money raised through Give 100 will help start an LTA program in Henderson County Schools.

• Firm attorneys helped found Pisgah Legal Services, which provides high-quality, effective legal services to help low-income people meet basic needs.
• The firm’s involvement with Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministries includes sponsoring the furnishing and decorating of a room at a women’s shelter. Attorneys regularly volunteer with the organization, and
Stephen Williamson currently serves on the board of directors.
• Since 2003, the firm has sponsored Asheville’s Light Up Your Holidays fireworks display.
• Attorney involvement includes:

- Asheville Art Museum
- Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministries
- Big Brothers, Big Sisters
- Habitat for Humanity
- Literacy Council of Buncombe County
- Pisgah Legal Services
- The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina
- United Way
- Multiple hospital foundations

Media Contacts

Jeremy Carter or Stephanie Smith
The Van Winkle Law Firm Media Representatives
The Brite Agency, 828.350.9500
jcarter@briteagency.com, ssmith@briteagency.com