Michael Joseph Barnett

Michael J. Barnett is a partner with the Firm. He represents corporations and individuals, plaintiffs and defendants, in a wide variety of litigation matters in the areas of Business/Commercial Litigation, Estate and Trust Proceedings, Will Caveats, Incompetency and Guardianship Proceedings, Family Law, Real Estate and Construction Litigation, Collections, Plaintiff’s Personal Injury, and Bankruptcy-Creditors’ Rights. Mike has represented clients throughout the state in more than 20 trials, at arbitration proceedings and at the North Carolina Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and Business Court. He was named one of North Carolina’s Rising Stars for 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 in the state’s Super Lawyers publication. Mike and his wife, Agnese, live in Hickory with their daughters, Nicole and Isabel.

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North Carolina

North Carolina State Bar

ID Number: 32210

Since 2004

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

J.D.

2002

Honors: With honors

State University of New York - Albany

B.A.

1998

Honors: Summa cum laude

Oxford University, New College

1998

Spring Semester 1998

North Carolina State Bar

Member

Current

Jury Connection, Not Jury Selection, For the Defense

DRI

September, 2012