Johnsey and Sullivan selected for Best Lawyers in America

Press Release September 3, 2009

WHITE & ALLEN LAWYERS INCLUDED IN THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA


White & Allen, P.A. has announced that attorneys C. Gray Johnsey and Matthew S. Sullivan have been selected for the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers In America.

Johnsey was selected in the specialty of Trust and Estates. This is his seventeenth year recognized by Best Lawyers and he has now joined an elite group of attorneys to attain such recognition. Sullivan was selected in the specialty of Product Liability Litigation.

Selection to Best Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey. The American Lawyer has described Best Lawyers as “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."

Johnsey received his law degree (J.D.) from the Cumberland School of Law, Samford University; and his Master of Laws in Taxation (LL.M.) from the University of Florida.

Johnsey has handled tax, probate, and estate and business planning matters in Eastern North Carolina for more than 25 years. He is a board certified specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law and a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Johnsey is a member of the Southeastern Trust School Faculty at Campbell University.

Sullivan is a member of the Board of Governors of the North Carolina Advocates of Justice (NCAJ), formerly the N.C. Academy of Trial Lawyers.

He attended Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University and received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) (magna cum laude) in 1995.

White & Allen, P.A. is a full-service law firm that has offered a wide range of legal services to Eastern North Carolina since 1927. Its practice areas include bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, civil litigation, personal injury, commercial law, corporate law, criminal law, elder law, employee benefits, employment law, estate planning and administration, family law, health care law, real estate and tax planning.