David Allen Elected President of the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys

June 22, 2009

The North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys (NCADA) elected David N. Allen as President at its 32nd Annual Meeting this past weekend. 

Allen will serve a one-year term as president of the organization, a resource for educational opportunities, networking and information sharing for civil defense trial attorneys in the state.

Allen served on the Board of Directors of the NCADA from 1998-2000 and 2005-2009. In addition to his NCADA activities, Allen is the State Bar Councilor for the 26th Judicial District and serves on the Ethics Committee among other duties. He is also a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel, the Defense Research Institute, and the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel.

Allen is a partner and litigation attorney with Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, where he was lead trial counsel in In Re: Pedestrian Walkway Failure Litigation, one of the largest mass tort actions in North Carolina history involving more than 100 claimants, 47 lawsuits, several trials to verdicts and more than half a dozen appeals to the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

Allen received his A.B. and J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been recognized by Woodward/White's The Best Lawyers in America, Business North Carolina magazine's "Legal Elite" and North Carolina Super Lawyers. He is a frequent lecturer on substantive and technical aspects of trial practice for numerous sponsors of continuing legal education presentations, having addressed both the NCADA and the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers (now NCAJ) in recent years.

About The North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys
The North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys (NCADA) is the resource for educational opportunities, networking, and information sharing for civil defense trial attorneys in the state. The NCADA is the sole organization in North Carolina exclusively devoted to meeting these needs.  For more information about the NCADA please visit www.ncada.org.

About Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
Parker Poe has 225 lawyers serving clients from offices in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; and Charleston, Columbia, Myrtle Beach and Spartanburg, South Carolina. The Firm counsels clients in Banking & Capital Markets, Business Law, Litigation, Real Estate & Commercial Development and Regulatory Law. These clients include municipal and county governments and represent industry leaders in international banking and finance, health care, life sciences, retail, energy, construction, manufacturing, technology, professional services, and resort and hospitality.