2011-01-01

Vandeventer Black’s Shearin Listed in 2011 North Carolina Super Lawyers

RALEIGH, NC.  Vandeventer Black LLP is pleased to announce that partner Norman W. Shearin has been selected as one of North Carolina’s Super Lawyers for 2011 in the area of Eminent Domain.

Shearin concentrates his law practice in condemnation, land use and property rights litigation. He is a Board Certified Specialist in Real Property Law - Business, Commercial, and Industrial Transactions. He is seasoned in Condemnation, Land Use and Property Rights law and has done considerable work for various electric cooperatives and municipalities. Norm represents both landowners and condemnors.

He received a B.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law, where he served as Research Editor of the Wake Forest Law Review.

The selections for this esteemed list are made by the research team at Super Lawyers, which is a service of the Thomson Reuters, Legal Division. Each year, the research team at Super Lawyers undertakes a rigorous multi-phase selection process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, independent evaluation of candidates by the attorney-led research staff, a peer review of candidates by practice area and a good-standing and disciplinary check.

Since 1883, Vandeventer Black lawyers have helped clients navigate successfully through the broad landscape of complicated legal matters.  The Firm has offices in Norfolk and Richmond Virginia, Kitty Hawk, Manteo and Raleigh North Carolina, Pasadena, CA and Hamburg, Germany.

For more information, visit www.vanblk.com or call (757) 446-8600.