Member Profile: Sydnor Thompson

Sydnor Thompson
Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein, LLP
Three Wachovia Center, Suite 3000
401 South Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28202

Tel: (704) 335-9004
Fax: (704) 334-4706
Website: www.parkerpoe.com

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ADR Services Include:

Mediation; Arbitration

 

Sydnor Thompson has substantive case experience in the following areas...

Anti-Trust
Appellate
Banking & Finance
Commercial/Business
Construction
Contract Disputes
EEOC
Employment
Insurance
Land Use/Planning
Landlord/Tenant
Local Government
Medical Malpractice
Personal Injury
Probate
Product Liability
Professional Negligence
Religious Institutions
Securities
Torts
Workers' Compensation
Wrongful Death

 

BIOGRAPHICAL:

A former North Carolina Court of Appeals judge, Judge Thompson is currently of counsel to the firm of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, in Charlotte. His practice with that firm over a period of forty years prior to his going on the Bench was primarily in the field of civil litigation.

Judge Thompson was a member of the original Dispute Resolution Committee of the North Carolina Bar Association. He has been certified as a Superior Court Mediator by the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission since 1995. He is also a member of the panel of mediators of the American Arbitration Association, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the North Carolina Industrial Commission. He has served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association for the past forty years and also as a member of its North Carolina Advisory Council.

Since leaving the Court of Appeals, Judge Thompson has devoted most of his time to mediation and arbitration of civil court cases as a principal in the state-wide firm of Mediation, Inc. Mediation, Inc. has trained hundreds of mediators, primarily by conducting 40-hour training sessions in various cities of North Carolina. Judge Thompson has served as a coach in many such training sessions, and has mediated 100's of cases.

EDUCATION:

  • Syracuse University: AB cum laude 1947;
  • Harvard Law School: JD cum laude 1950;
  • London School of Economics, Fulbright Scholar 1951,

Memberships & Affiliations

  • President, Mecklenburg County Bar Association 1990-91.
  • Mecklenburg County Bar Association
  • North Carolina Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Mediation, Inc.

Rates

$200/hour

 

Sydnor Thompson 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/sydnor-thompson

 

 
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