Ragsdale Liggett PLLC Partner Honored At Women In Business Awards

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For Immediate Release Contact: Patty Briguglio (919) 233-6600

Ragsdale Liggett PLLC Partner Honored At Women In Business Awards
Triangle Business Journal Names Dorothy Burch To Exclusive List
Of Top Women Professionals

RALEIGH, N.C. – Dorothy Burch, partner at Ragsdale Liggett PLLC, was recognized as one of the Triangle’s top businesswomen by the Triangle Business Journal at the “Women in Business Awards” event held on Thursday, August 10, at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel in RTP. Burch was honored as one of 25 Triangle area female executives who have displayed exemplary leadership in business and was presented with the award at the luncheon.

“I am honored and humbled to receive this prestigious award, especially given the distinguished company in which I am receiving it, company that includes many of North Carolina’s most integral and influential women,” said Burch. “Winning this award is incredibly meaningful to me because it represents the views of professionals outside my specific sphere of influence. This recognition is a wonderful affirmation of my efforts thus far in my career.”

About Dorothy Burch:
A partner at Ragsdale Liggett PLLC, Dottie Burch practices in the firm’s corporate and real estate law departments. Dottie focuses her practice in business law, including day-to-day business counsel, business mergers and acquisitions, insurance regulatory law and commercial real estate transactions. She practices in a wide range of areas in these fields and manages younger lawyers in the firm. Dottie offers general strategic advice to the firm’s clients on a daily basis, including advice about contract negotiation, business strategies, corporate formation, management and dissolution, closing various types of financing and other transactions and assisting clients with insurance regulatory compliance and advocacy needs. She is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, a directory of top legal professionals designated by their colleagues as preeminent in their field. Dottie received her Bachelor’s degrees in American History and Political Science from Meredith College in Raleigh, graduating second in her class, summa cum laude. Dottie went on to attend law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she received her Juris Doctor in 1991.

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 http://www.rl-law.com.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
919-233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com

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