Wilson Ratledge

Wilson Ratledge provides a broad range of legal services, including:

Litigation

Litigation is a complex legal process that incorporates several stages.Wilson Ratledge effectively represents individual and business clients in a wide variety of civil disputes including business and complex commercial matters, partnership, construction, employment, insurance, lien prosecution and defense, local government defense, real estate, land use, securities, bankruptcy, and trusts and estates.

Workers’ compensation defense

Changes in workers’ compensation, both in law and economics, have made it imperative for Wilson Ratledge to aggressively defend claims while priding themselves in attaining the most cost-effective outcomes for their clients.With a focus on self-insured employers and third party administrators, defense plans are carefully tailored to each case.

Estate planning, trusts, and tax planning

Wilson Ratledge is committed to providing highly personalized estate, trust and tax planning services.You will be encouraged to express each concern, objective, and question, so that Wilson Ratledge business professionals can create a customized plan with practical and workable solutions, and also minimize tax burdens and other risks, where possible.

Corporate and business law

Wilson Ratledge has over sixty years combined experience assisting public, private, family-owned, non-profit, limited partnership, and limited liability corporation businesses in North Carolina with contracts, mergers, acquisitions, equity financing, and other related corporate law matters.

Real estate development and land use

Wilson Ratledge represents purchasers, sellers, owners, developers, tenants and lenders in projects involving the development, construction, financing, leasing, sale and purchase of commercial, residential, and multi-family residential real property.These legal services range from simple commercial transactions and land sales to complex tax-free or tax-deferred exchanges and syndications for the acquisition and finance of commercial property and development.

The team comprises eleven attorneys, licensed in North Carolina, Florida, Colorado, and Massachusetts, with professional affiliations with the North Carolina Bar Association Litigation Section, the North Carolina Bar Association Workers’ Compensation Section, the College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers, the Durham and Wake County Bar Associations, the American Bar Association, the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, the Defense Research Institute, and the Craven-Everett Inn of American Inns of Court.

Wilson Ratledge, PLLC

4600 Marriott Drive, Suite 400

Raleigh, North Carolina 27612

Phone: 919-787-7711

Fax: 919-787-7710