Business Law
The law firm of Ragsdale Liggett PLLC is comprised of lawyers with extensive legal expertise across a broad range of practice areas. Known for their innovations in the area of corporate, finance and insurance law, Ragsdale Liggett lawyers are equipped to handle all the legal needs of a business, including:- Entity formation
- Day-to-day business counseling
- Acquisition and disposition
- Merger and dissolution
We represent companies ranging in size from small local businesses to national financial institutions and large international insurance conglomerates.
Real Estate
The diverse real estate practice group at Ragsdale Liggett handles a wide variety of real estate transactions, from residential purchases and sales to all aspects of commercial real estate development, including final project completion, complex public and private bond financing transactions and privatization of university student housing.
Litigation
Since its formation in 1972, the firm has developed an extraordinary reputation in the area of civil litigation and has enjoyed significant courtroom successes ranging from local state courts to the United States Supreme Court in areas with far-reaching implications, such as:
- Insurance/reinsurance coverage disputes
- Shareholder derivative actions
- Professional negligence defense
- Catastrophic personal injury defense
- Complex construction disputes
FIRM HISTORY
The immediate predecessor of Ragsdale, Liggett PLLC was the Raleigh office of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, which was formed in February, 1987, as a result of a merger between the New York City based firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae (then known as LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae) and the Raleigh, North Carolina, firm of Moore, Ragsdale, Liggett, Ray & Foley, P.A. In 1982, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae had opened an office in Raleigh, headed by Joseph E. Johnson, a North Carolina State Senator and graduate of Wake Forest School.
Moore, Ragsdale, Liggett, Ray & Foley, P.A. was founded in 1972 by George R. Ragsdale and Frank R. Liggett III, as Ragsdale & Liggett. In 1979, Ragsdale & Liggett was pleased to add its senior partner, former North Carolina Governor Dan K. Moore, who joined the firm after retiring as an Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. In 1983, the firm incorporated and changed its name to Moore, Ragsdale, Liggett, Ray & Foley, P.A.
The Firm has 11 Rated Lawyers.
AV® Preeminent ™ and BV® Distinguished™ are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the Bar and the Judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings fall into two categories - legal ability and general ethical standards.
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Bar Register Practice Areas: Business Law; Civil Trial Practice; Real Estate Law. |
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