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Kimberly C. Stevens
Kim Stevens has been a trial attorney in the trial and appellate courts of the State of North Carolina since 1992, and a law clerk to a United States District Court Judge for the year preceding. She has tried cases all across the State of North Carolina and in the federal courts for North Carolina as well. She has argued a death penalty case in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and filed briefs in the North Carolina Supreme Court, achieving one of the few victories in a capital case in recent years. She has filed briefs in the United States Supreme Court as well, and conducted a clemency hearing before the Governor of North Carolina.
Ms. Stevens has tried cases ranging from personal injury and wrongful death / truck accident litigation to the defense of indigent persons facing the death penalty. Ms. Stevens has specialized in high stakes litigation for nearly all of her fifteen years of practice, and has settled several civil cases for amounts exceeding $1 Million each.
Ms. Stevens has further enjoyed serving as an adjunct professor and teaching trial advocacy to students at Wake Forest University School of Law since 2002, and has coached the Wake Forest University School of Law's American Association for Justice Trial Team since 2005.
Credentials
Washington State University, B.A. Criminal Justice, summa cum laude, 1989; Valedictorian, Criminal Justice Department; Phi Beta Kappa; Washington State University Marching Band.
Wake Forest University School of Law, Juris Doctorate, 1992; Wake Forest Law Review, Moot Court Board and National Trial Team; National Quarterfinalist, National Trial Team Competition, 1991
Law Clerk, The Hon. Patrick J. Duggan, United States Federal District Court Judge, Eastern District of Michigan, Detroit Division, 1992-1993
Associate, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, Winston-Salem, NC, 1993-97
Associate, McElwee Firm, PLLC, North Wilkesboro, NC, 1997-2001
Partner, Stevens & Withrow, PLLC, 2001-2006
Assistant Capital Defender, State of North Carolina's Forsyth County Regional Office of the Capital Defender, 2006-2008
Licensed to Practice Law in the State of Washington, 1992 (presently inactive status)
Licensed to Practice Law in the State of North Carolina, 1993 (active member)
Licensed to Practice in the:
United States District Courts for the Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of North Carolina
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court
Member, North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers
Vice President, Board of Directors of the Center for Death Penalty Litigation
Adjunct Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law, Trial Advocacy, 2002 to Present; Coach, Wake Forest University School of Law's AAJ Trial Team, 2005 to Present
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