James Hash, an associate with the firm, grew up
on a cattle farm in Alleghany County, North Carolina. He attended
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a North Carolina
Teaching Fellow, majoring in both United States history and in journalism.
He obtained a master’s degree in teaching from UNC in 2001.
For the next four years he taught history and served as an assistant
football and baseball coach at Northern High School in Durham, North
Carolina.
In May, 2008 James was graduated cum laude from the Norman
Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University, where he held the Franklin
T. Dupree and Elizabeth Wells Dupree Memorial Scholarship. While at
Campbell he served as Comments Editor of the Campbell Law Review,
participated in both national and international moot court competitions
and was elected to Phi Kappa Phi.
In addition to beginning his career as a lawyer, James also embarked
recently on another new role – as a parent. His and his wife Kristi’s
son Wren was born June 11, 2008. For the foreseeable future he will
be devoting most of his time to his new law practice and his new baby;
he hopes one day to return to his hobbies of reading history, cheering
on UNC’s sports teams, and watching major league baseball. James is
a past editor of the Wake Bar Flyer.
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