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Frank Goldsmith
Goldsmith, Goldsmith & Dews, P.A.
57 South Main Street
P.O. Box 1107
Marion,
NC 28752
Tel: (828) 652-3000
Fax: (828) 652-9196
Website: www.goldsmithdews.com
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ADR Services Include:Mediation
Frank Goldsmith has substantive case experience in the following areas...
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Banking & Finance |
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Civil Rights |
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Commercial/Business |
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Construction |
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Consumer Fraud |
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Contract Disputes |
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EEOC |
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Eminent Domain |
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Employment |
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Environmental |
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Health Care |
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Insurance |
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Libel & Slander |
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Local Government |
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Medical Malpractice |
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Nursing Homes |
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Partnerships |
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Personal Injury |
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Police |
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Probate |
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Product Liability |
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Professional Negligence |
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Real Estate |
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Religious Institutions |
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Taxation |
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Torts |
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Trusts / Estates |
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Wrongful Death |
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BIOGRAPHICAL:My practice is almost exclusively civil litigation and mediation. The civil practice emphasizes employment and civil rights cases but also includes much commercial litigation, general tort litigation, and other civil cases, representing both plaintiffs and defendants. Roughly half of the civil practice is in the federal courts. I have been certified since 1996 as a mediator by the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission and currently spend half or more of my time mediating various kinds of legal disputes pending in the state and federal courts. I also often serve as an arbitrator, either individually or on a panel of arbitrators. I have litigated successfully at all levels of the state and federal judicial systems, including the United States Supreme Court (Blackledge v. Allison, 431 U.S. 63 (1977)).
EDUCATION:- Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina (B.A., 1967);
- University de Montpellier, France, 1965-66 (Certificat, 1966);
- University of North Carolina School of Law, J.D. with honors, 1970; Educational Honors: Order of the Coif; Associate Editor, North Carolina Law Review; Van Hecke-Wettach Citizenship Award; Student Bar Association Certificate of Service.
Memberships & AffiliationsFellow, American College of Trial Lawyers (inducted in 1994 in Ottawa, Canada).
North Carolina Bar Association: member of Board of Governors, 1990-1993 (Executive Committee, 1991-92); Member (and former member of Council, 2005-2007), Dispute Resolution Section; member, International ADR Committee of Dispute Resolution Section; Chair, Labor and Employment Law Section, 1986-87; former member, Commission on Race Relations in the Legal Profession (chair, Research and Survey Committee); various other committees.
North Carolina Advocates for Justice: Board of Governors, 1988-1994, 2006-present; currently Vice-President for Legal Affairs; former chair, Ethics Committee; former chair and current member, Amicus Curiae Committee; former chair, Constitution and Bylaws Committee; member, Death Penalty Task Force.
Twenty-Ninth Judicial District (North Carolina) Bar Association: President, 1982.
McDowell County (North Carolina) Bar Association: President, 1984-86; former chair, Committee on Indigent Representation; Served as volunteer librarian of county law library for 12 years.
Rates$275 per hour, $275 one-time administrative fee, travel billed at half the regular hourly rate (no travel fee charged for mediations within a thirty-minute radius of Asheville or Marion).
Frank Goldsmith is a member of the NC Academy of Superior Court Mediators, the state's premier roster of certified attorney-mediators. The NCASCM profile includes more specific local information, such as counties and regions served, and can be visited directly at www.ncmediators.org/frank-goldsmith
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