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1974 -
Admitted to Georgia State Bar
1983 -
Admitted to North Carolina State Bar (Now practicing solely in
North Carolina)
Member:
N.C. State Bar, 28th Judicial District, North Carolina
Bar Association, N.C. Academy of Trial Lawyers, American Trial
Lawyer Association
Joe Ferikes graduated from North Carolina State University in
1970 and from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1974.
He began his practice in 1974 in Atlanta, Georgia, representing
such entities as the County of Dekalb, Georgia.
In 1983, he and his wife moved back to their hometown of Asheville,
North Carolina, to continue his law practice and raise their family.
He focuses his practice in the areas of civil litigation, medical
malpractice, personal injury, worker's compensation, real estate
litigation, collections, construction and municipal law.
Representative clients include the Towns of Woodfin and Fletcher,
North Carolina, Stewart Title Insurance Company and Ranger Insurance
Company.
Joe has been actively involved in the Greek community and has
coached youth sports for 15 years.
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1989 -
Admitted to North Carolina State Bar
1990 -
Admitted to Tennessee State Bar
(Now practicing solely in North Carolina)
Member:
N.C. State Bar, 28th Judicial District, North Carolina Bar Association,
American Bar Association
Ed Bleynat graduated Magna Cum Laude from Clemson University with
a B.S. in Financial Management in 1986. After graduating with
honors from the University of North Carolina School of Law in
1989, Ed began his legal career by clerking for James G. Exum,
Jr., then the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.
He later went to work with a major Greensboro law firm in a general
litigation practice, focusing on business litigation and tort
law.
In 1995-96, Ed, his wife and children relocated to Asheville,
North Carolina to continue his law practice and to raise their
family in Western North Carolina where Ed grew up. After Ed started
his own firm in 1997, he and Joe Ferikes merged their practices
into Ferikes & Bleynat, PLLC.
Ed engages in the general practice of law, focusing on business
litigation, civil litigation, major personal injury, real estate
litigation, construction and contract law.
Ed is actively involved in a variety of church, civic and community
activities as a director, trustee or volunteer.
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