Ed Gaskins, one of our firm's founding partners, is a versatile lawyer
with broad experience in litigation and resolution of a wide variety
of commercial disputes, business-related problems and construction
issues. During his career Ed has successfully litigated matters involving
such diverse subjects as insurance coverage, business organizational
disputes and construction disputes representing owners, contractors
and architects. Ed's experience with construction-related litigation
led him to become one of the first attorneys in North Carolina to
represent people whose health and property have been adversely affected
by toxic mold.
Ed's most frequent involvement is in the resolution of disputes which
arise in a business context. Attorneys, both within and outside the
firm value Ed's insight, judgment, persistence and compassion in dealing
with the personalities, practical business realities and legal intricacies
of business dispute resolution. Ed also serves as an arbitrator in
business disputes.
Throughout his career, Ed also has been deeply interested in leadership,
law firm management, attorney professionalism and legal ethics and
serves as our firm's Managing Partner He frequently participates in
seminars and forums dealing with team-building, personal growth and
other quality of life issues and lawyer mentoring. He is a founding
member of the Braxton Craven Inn of Court.
In 2004 the Wake County Bar Association honored Ed for his commitment
to professionalism by selecting him to receive its highest award:
the Joseph Branch Professionalism Award. He served as the Association's
president in 2009. A former member of the American Bar Association's
Professionalism Committee, he currently serves on the Chief Justice's
Commission on Professionalism and the Wake County Bar Association's
Professionalism Committee.
Ed's commitment to his family, profession, community and church is
reflected in a wide variety of public service activities, including
membership on the North Carolina Bar Association's Board of Governors
and the Board of Directors of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce.
He has served as a trustee, deacon and Sunday school teacher at Hayes
Barton Baptist Church, and as an officer or director of numerous parent-teacher
associations and other public school advocacy groups. Ed is married
to Ann and has two daughters and six grandchildren.
Ed in his position as President of the Wake County Bar Association,
wrote a column for the Wake Bar Flyer. Below are the columns he has
written.
January 2009
March 2009
May 2009
August 2009
September 2009
December 2009
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