2024 Bar Awards Playbill

The “play ball!”

November 7 | Junction West

Benefitting

Your generosity is a HOME RUN for Legal Aid! FIRM OF THE YEAR Everett Gaskins Hancock Tuttle Hash LLP SUPREME ADVOCATE Connell & Gelb Morningstar Law Group

SPONSOR PARTY HOST Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman

SUPERIOR ADVOCATE Abrams & Abrams PA Alston & Bird Hatch Little & Bunn LLP K&L Gates LLP McGuireWoods LLP

Miller Monroe & Plyler Raleigh Divorce Law Firm Tharrington Smith Young Moore & Henderson PA Manning Fulton & Skinner PA

Legal Hat Tricks!

Trial Lawyers, Deal Lawyers & Real Lawyers Adams Howell Sizemore & Adams PA Anderson Jones PLLC Bosquez Porter Family Law Edwards Kirby LLP Epstein Sherlin PLLC Gailor Hunt Jenkins Davis Taylor and Gibbs PLLC Gantt Family Law Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP Law Offices of Benjamin T. McLawhorn Law Offices of Sean Cole Lynch & Eatman LLP McKnight Law Monroe Wallace Morden & Sherrill PA

Myers Bigel NC Advocates for Justice Nicholls & Crampton PA Parker Bryan Britt & Tanner Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP Rosen Law Firm Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers LLP Stauff & Gross PLLC Wake Family Law Group Womble Bond Dickinson LLP Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP Owens & Miller PLLC

Bar Stars

Barwick Mediation The Jernigan Law Firm The Brocker Law Firm Lewis & Roberts PLLC Brown, Crump, Vanore & Tierney LLP Matheson & Associates PLLC Bruce Hamilton Mediation Millberg Gordon & Stewart PLLC Connor Law Group Oak City Family Law Jacqueline R. Clare, DRC Superior Court Certified Mediator

Individual Donors: As of November 4, 2024

Virginia Adams Mediation Julie Bell Tiffany Cox Anna Davis

Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC Satisky & Silverstein LLP Skidmore Law Group PLLC Teague Campbell Dennis & Gorham LLP Ward Family Law Williams Mullen

Leanor Hodge Gabe Jimenez Anh LyJordan Madison Mackenzie

Day Matthews Ryan Moore Alice Mine William Plyler

Your generosity is a SLAM DUNK! Platinum Community Sponsors

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Silver Community Sponsors

Bronze Community Sponsors Legal Wheels Legal Cloud Technology

Our Silent Auction Donors are Legal MVPs! Bailey’s Fine Jewelry Carly Baker Heidi Bloom Anna Davis Empire Eats

Gregg and Ellen Hardy Katie H. King David Long Oak City Yoga Meg Rosenthal

Shibumi John Szymankiewicz & Matheson & Associates Theatre in the Park Whitney von Haam

Silent Auction closes at 6:30 p.m.

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2024 Wake County Bar Awards The ESPYS 5 - 7 p.m.

ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS 5:30 p.m.

Welcome | Lindsay Underwood, Bar Awards Chair Introductions | Evin Grant, Master of Ceremonies Message from Legal Aid | Ashley Campbell Video: WCBA Courthouse Olympics Presentation of the Golden Limine Musical Act: “Time After Mine” Presentation of the Golden Limine Musical Act: “Fighting For Your Rights “ Video: A Message from the Carolina Hurricanes INTERMISSION (Silent Auction Ends at 6:30 p.m.)

6:30 p.m.

Welcome Back | Evin Grant, Master of Ceremonies Video: Drink “Legalade” Presentation of the Golden Limine Musical Act: “Margaret Eagles” Video: Staff NFL Dances Presentation of the Golden Limine Musical Act: “Everett Gaskins Hancock” Thanks and Closing | Evin Grant and Lindsay Underwood Photos from Bench/Bar Kickball Game May, 2024

The Team CHAIR Lindsay Underwood VICE CHAIR MC Skinner EMCEE Evin Grant MUSICAL DIRECTOR Sean Timmons

BAND Neubia Harris, vocals Tim Carraway, guitar John Cathcart, drums Joe Nanney, keyboards Sean Timmons, bass and vocals CREATIVE TEAM Judge Julie Bell David Boaz Sean Cole Jacob Morse Sean Timmons Lindsay Underwood

Photos from WCBA Tennis Tournament October, 2024

Time After Mine Reading your eblast you’re, retiring what will we do?

Without your guidance Exactly what, will we do?

Bar Journal, meetings, They’re left behind Desk full of memories Time after You’ll be living your life We show up on your doorstep You call up the police, just because We got you out of bed Then you say, “send help!"

But we’re still here Can we come in for a beer?

If you leave, we will look and we will find you Time after Mine Please don’t leave we don’t like it when things change Time after Mine If you leave, we will look and we will find you Missing Alice Mine We’re like cats we only like homeostasis Missing Alice Mine After we disburse and police have Turned us away, Watching through windows You're wondering if we’re okay We need lots of supervision (supervision) Or we may lose our minds If you leave, we will look and we will find you Time after Mine Please don’t leave we don’t like it when things change Time after Mine You say, "please go" But we don’t mind Looks like we will unwind

(cont.)

If you leave, we will look and we will find you Time after Mine Please don’t leave we don’t like it when things change Time after Mine If you leave, we will look and we will find you Missing Alice Mine We’re like cats we only like homeostasis Missing Alice Mine Missing Alice Mine Missing Alice Mine Missing Alice Mine Missing Alice Mine Missing Alice Mine

Fighting for Your Rights Yeah Case is being called Facing this alone would be too rough You need a lawyer who’s real tough, our P.D. He’s charging through the halls The D.A. says “judge he’s just too much” He knows all this law and other stuff, you’ll see (He enters court and) Wake County’s cold and empty (oh) Here comes The Man Deonte’ (oh) All the charges against you are gone I said, ooh, he’s fighting for your rights Deonte’ Thomas has the magic touch I said, ooh, where are his cape and tights?

Oh, when you’re locked up, he’s the one to trust (Hey, hey, hey) You’re running out of time Private counsels’ rates seem pretty high But there’s still someone on your side, Wake’s P.D. That cell is cold and empty (oh) Here comes The Man Deonte’ (oh) All the charges against you are gone

I said, ooh, he’s fighting for your rights Deonte’ Thomas has the magic touch I said, ooh, where are his cape and tights?

Oh, when you’re locked up, he’s the one to trust Always walking with you, don’t you know (with you, don’t you know) Gonna get your active time postponed (active time postponed) Will never let you down, that’s right! (ooh) I said, ooh, he’s fighting for your rights Deonte’ Thomas has the magic touch (Hey, hey, hey) I said, ooh, he’s fighting for your rights Oh, when you’re locked up, he’s the one to trust

Judge Margaret Eagles (Tick tock tick) Doo doo doo-doo (Tick tock tick) Doo doo doo-doo Here we come, slippin', slippin', slippin' Into your courtroom Here we come, slippin', slippin', slippin' Into your courtroom Chief Judge Margaret Eagles Don’t sanction me Please Chief Judge Eagles Let my sweet client go free I’m begging you Judge Eagles: Leave him be Oh Judge, no recidivism

Cont: Chief Judge Margaret Eagles Don’t sanction me Please Chief Judge Eagles Let my sweet client go free We’re beggin’ you Judge Eagles Leave him be Oh Judge, no recidivism We’ll just be slippin', slippin', slippin' Out of your courtroom We’ll just be slippin', slippin', slippin' Out of your courtroom

Was a toupee’ On the ground at people’s feet Bailiff shot it Looked like a coyote eSearchin’ for some meat Mythical shenanigans Chief Judge Margaret Eagles Can’t you see?

Please Chief Judge Eagles His hairpiece just broke free I’m begging you Judge Eagles Leave him be Oh Judge, no recidivism Wigs keep on slippin’, slippin', slippin' Around your courtroom Wigs keep on slippin', slippin', slippin' Around your courtroom

Doo doo n-doo-doo, doo doo n-doo-doo Doo doo n-doo-doo, doo doo n-doo-doo

A Brief History of the Golden Limine The most prestigious commendation in the history of local bar associations, the much coveted Golden Limine is named for Lord Ethelbert Athelstan Rumple Budweiser Vortigern Luxury Gofraid Fruitbat Hypotenuse Limine (1543-1839), the much celebrated English Barrister.

As recounted by Blackstone in his seminal work Commentaries on the Law of England, Limine’s litigation practices were renowned throughout the British Isles. His signature maneuver was first revealed in a case in which he was defending a man charged with second degree (unpremeditated) shearing of a neighbor’s sheep. Limine arranged to have a horse placed in the audience for the closing arguments, and when the jury returned a verdict of guilty, Limine’s client jumped on the horse and rode out of the courtroom, and indeed the county, before the judge could impose a sentence.

Everett, Gaskins, Hancock Everett, Gaskins, Hancock Hire them and head on down to Saint Croix ‘Cause now your only worry Is for Christmas what will be your toy Everett, Gaskins, Hancock Will not miss a thing Gonna be so happy with the Joy that they will bring Crashin’ through the courthouse Gettin’ all your filings done on time Always in your corner The other side shows fear and a deep surprise; Your foes will try to bring the water to their eyes But Everett, Gaskins, Hancock will still whoop those behinds Firm of the year, we, couldn’t ask for more Why did those other firms all say “no”?

Firm of the year, we, couldn’t ask for more Why did those other firms all say “no”?

We’ll never know

Cont: Everett, Gaskins, Hancock Practice all sorts of law you need Hire them and they’ll give you Top results like you have never seen Education law, and estate law too Business lit, nonprofits, just to name a few Of the areas they practice, they cover so many types of law (they’ll work for you) You know they’ve got the top legal minds up and down their hall

Everett, Gaskins, Hancock, keeps their practice tight, You know the work they’ll do, sure will be outta sight!

Firm of the year, we, couldn’t ask for more Why did those other firms all say “no”?

Firm of the year, we, couldn’t ask for more Why did those other firms all say “no”?

Past Bar Awards 2023 - The Eras Tour 2022 - The Wake County Bar Awards - Still Outside 2021 - The Wake County Bar Awards - Back to the Future 2020 - The Wake County Bar Awards - The Show Must Go On! 2019 - The Wake County Bar Awards - LIVE! 2018 - The Wake County Bar Awards - The Greatest Show 2017 - The Wake County Bar Awards - Bar Awards X: Rogue Justice 2016 - The Wake County Bar Awards - Mentorship. Marsupials. Mirth.

2015 - The Wake County Bar Awards - In a Galaxy Far, Far Away 2014 - The Wake County Bar Awards - Idol Edition 2013 - The Wake County Bar Awards Holiday Special 2012 - The LAST* Wake County Bar Awards 2011 - The Second Degree Wake County Bar Awards 2010 - The Very Best Wake County Bar Awards 2009 - The Very Serious Wake County Bar Awards 2008 - The Wake County Bar (and Grill) Awards