Ragsdale Liggett Lawyer Wins 40 Under 40 Award

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Ragsdale Liggett Lawyer Wins 40 Under 40 Award
Richard O. Bolton Receives Prestigious Leadership Award

RALEIGH, N.C. – Ragsdale Liggett PLLC has announced that Richard O. Bolton received the Triangle Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 award Friday, April 21 at North Ridge Country Club in Raleigh. As a recipient of this award, Bolton has attained a significant career milestone and leadership roles within his organization, as well as having substantial community involvement and service.

“I am pleased to win this prestigious award,” said Bolton. “Being named one of the most influential young business leaders in the Triangle is truly a tremendous honor.”

About Richard O. Bolton:
An associate attorney at Ragsdale Liggett PLLC, Richard O. Bolton practices in the real estate department. Richard’s practice focuses on real estate transactions, the formation of corporate entities for ownership of real estate, and the representation of various lenders, title companies and real estate developers. Richard routinely negotiates leases and contracts and also handles estate/probate work. He is a member of the American, North Carolina, and Wake County Bar Associations. Prior to Ragsdale Liggett, Richard was an attorney at Boxley, Bolton & Garber, LLP, where he practiced probate, estate planning, real estate law, corporate law and civil litigation. Deciding to concentrate on commercial real estate, Richard made the move to Ragsdale Liggett in 2005. Richard’s passion is mentoring inner city youth. He is a mentor for the literacy based YMCA Community Hope program, for which he tutors and mentors children from a Raleigh housing community. Richard also volunteers time at his church and serves on the board of directors of Make-A-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina as director, officer and legal counsel. Make-A-Wish grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions.
Dedicated to his community, Richard serves on the board of directors of the Dave Brumitt Foundation for Gastric and Esophageal Cancer Research. In 2004, Habitat for Humanity of Wake County named Richard Outstanding Legal Services Volunteer. He is a director of Camp Oak Hill and Retreat Center, a Christian camp that he has supported for many years, both financially and as a volunteer camp counselor. Richard grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and received his Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Wake Forest University in 1994. He received his Juris Doctor from the Wake Forest University School of Law in 1998, when he was admitted to practice in North Carolina. Richard and his wife, Angel, reside in Raleigh.

About Ragsdale Liggett PLLC:
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 arena of corporate law, Ragsdale Liggett lawyers are equipped to handle all of a business' legal needs, including formation, day-to-day business counseling, acquisition, disposition, merger and dissolution of companies ranging in size from small local businesses to national financial institutions and large international insurance conglomerates. 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 entity formation, final project completion, complex public and private bond financing transactions, and the privatization of university student housing. 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, ERISA disputes, professional negligence defense, catastrophic personal injury defense and complex construction disputes. For more information please call (919) 787-5200 or view the firm's Web site at www.rl-law.com.

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