If you’ve been served with a lawsuit, have an unresolved dispute with a person or business, or need to navigate a problematic business relationship, we can help.
Our firm has focused on civil litigation and trial work for decades, and our experienced lawyers have represented clients throughout North Carolina in both state and federal courts. Our tradition is that of service to our clients through the delivery of top quality legal services at reasonable rates.
We understand that your matter is not an intellectual exercise: it is a real problem requiring effective solutions. Trying cases to a conclusion before judges and juries, providing advice to avoid legal problems, and effecting out of court resolutions of cases before and after suit is filed — these are the things we do best.
Services We Offer
Service to Individuals & Businesses
Our firm represents clients in civil litigation matters throughout North Carolina in all the state and federal courts, including personal injury cases, commercial and business dispute cases, construction dispute cases, collection cases, employment cases, estate dispute cases, workers compensation cases, and professional negligence cases.
Our firm is hired by insurance companies to defend insureds in all the judicial districts of the state, from the coast to the mountains.
In addition to our civil litigation practice, our firm advises clients on business and employment matters and insurance coverage issues.
Services to Attorneys
Firm principal David O. Lewis is certified as a mediator by the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission. Because of his experience over four decades in representing parties in civil court, and in trying hundreds of cases to a conclusion, lawyers across North Carolina designate him to help resolve cases through Superior Court Mediated Settlement Conferences. Attorneys across North Carolina also call on him to serve as an arbitrator in personal injury, estate, and business cases.
Our firm's seasoned trial lawyers are available for association with other attorneys. We are regularly consulted on litigation matters, including case evaluation and strategy formation.
Civil Litigation
Civil litigation – bringing or defending cases in court – has been a central part of Bryant & Lewis's work for decades. Our lawyers have tried hundreds of jury and non-jury cases to judgment.
Defense of Civil Cases
When individuals and businesses are sued in the civil courts, they can rely on our law firm to protect their rights and their assets. Our trial lawyers have defended thousands of clients across North Carolina in all the state and federal courts in personal injury, business dispute, construction dispute, estate dispute, and products liability cases. For over seventy years, some of the country’s most reputable insurance carriers have hired our firm to defend their insureds in lawsuits filed throughout the State. Our clients benefit from this wealth of experience. It helps resolve cases through negotiation, settlement, and trial.
Prosecution of Civil Cases
Sometimes individuals or businesses are unable to resolve disputes on their own, and must consult a lawyer. Individuals and businesses rely on our firm to assert and protect their rights through the courts. Our lawyers have helped thousands of clients resolve disputes without the necessity of filing suit, including personal injury cases, workers compensation cases, construction dispute cases, contractor and subcontractor lien cases, estate dispute cases, and collection matters. When appropriate and necessary, we file and prosecute civil lawsuits throughout North Carolina to obtain judgments for our clients. Our long experience in civil litigation allows us to efficiently navigate the complex rules that govern lawsuits, and to effectively present claims to courts and juries. This experience helps resolve cases through negotiation, settlement, and trial.
Legal Advice to Businesses
Organizing and running a business requires legal advice from time to time. Often, early consultation with an attorney about a legal question saves a business time and expense.
Bryant & Lewis' attorneys advise business owners and managers on legal rights, legal obligations, and legal solutions to business problems. We help businesses with employment and insurance coverage issues, and we help businesses collect money owed.
Our goal is to help business clients avoid legal problems, to find effective solutions to legal problems when they arise, and to help our clients succeed.
Mediation & Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation
As a trial lawyer for forty years, Bryant & Lewis' principal David O. Lewis has represented parties throughout North Carolina in personal injury cases, construction cases, estate cases, business dispute cases, products liability cases, medical malpractice cases, and legal malpractice cases. He has tried Superior Court cases to verdict throughout our State. He has participated in thousands of mediated settlement conferences all across the State with the best mediators and attorneys practicing in North Carolina.
Through this work, he has seen and experienced what works in mediation – and what does not work. Because he is a practicing trial lawyer, as well as a mediator certified by North Carolina’s Dispute Resolution Commission, he understands case economics. He knows the evidentiary rules, venue characteristics, and judge characteristics, and he has rapport with insurance representatives and parties. He provides cogent explanations of law and procedure, This experience and knowledge helps mediation participants and insurance representatives evaluate each side’s risks and exposure. It helps get cases settled.
Arbitration
David Lewis also uses his experience and knowledge to resolve cases as an arbitrator. He has adjudicated scores of cases as a single arbitrator or as a member of an arbitration panel. Because of the variety and depth of his experience, and because he has represented both plaintiffs and defendants, parties have used him to decide matters and avoid the costs and time involved with court litigation.