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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Legal Elite – Antitrust 2014

ANTITRUST WINNER

John F. Graybeal
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Raleigh

I grew up on an 800-acre farm in Appalachia — Russell County, Va. We had a dairy operation, beef cattle and tobacco. During the summers when I was in high school, I helped with mowing and raking the hay, creating haystacks and loading bales and driving the tractor wagon to get them to the barn. I helped feed dairy cows while they were milked and tied tobacco after harvest.

Vita: Born Sept. 12,1937, in Richmond, Va.; bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and law degree from Harvard Law School; wife, four children and four grandchildren.

Why he chose to specialize in this field: Antitrust was the first, and about the only, law-school course I found tolerable, and the U.S. Justice Department’s Antitrust Division was first to offer me a job.

Passions: Spreading the word about global warming after attending a three-day Al Gore Climate Reality conference in Chicago in July 2013, sailing the Chesapeake Bay, farming, piano, chamber music, opera, playing squash and tennis.

Where he’d live if he had to practice somewhere else: It gets no better than working for the Justice Department or Federal Trade Commission, living in a row house in Washington, D.C., and commuting by bicycle.

What he’d be if not a lawyer: An economics professor at a small-town liberal-arts college or a skipjack on the Chesapeake Bay “drudging for arsters.”

Favorite place: Chesapeake Bay.

Don’t ask him to: Spend long days staring at a computer screen.

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ANTITRUST

WINNER – John F. Graybeal, Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Raleigh
Daniel G. Clodfelter, Moore & Van Allen PLLC, Charlotte
James L.S. Cobb,
Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP, Raleigh
William Andrew Copenhaver,
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP, Winston-Salem
Alan W. Duncan,
Van Laningham Duncan PLLC, Greensboro
Richard B. Fennell,James McElroy & Diehl PA, Charlotte
Lisa F. Garrison,
Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP, Greensboro
Denise M. Gunter,
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, Winston-Salem
Gregory Gerald Holland,
Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP, Greensboro
Henry L. Kitchin Jr.,
McGuireWoods LLP, Wilmington
Larry S. McDevitt,
The Van Winkle Law Firm, Asheville
Pressly M. Millen,
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP, Raleigh
Lawrence C. Moore III,
Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson PA, Charlotte
Jeffrey E. Oleynik,
Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard LLP, Greensboro
Rebecca M. Rich, Duke University School of Law, Durham
William L. Rikard Jr.,
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Charlotte

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