Sandra Mitterling Appointed To North Carolina Bar Association s Women In The Profession Committee

19 September 2006

Ragsdale Liggett PLLC has announced that Sandra Mitterling, associate attorney in the firm’s litigation department, has been appointed to the North Carolina Bar Association’s Women In The Profession Committee for 2006-2007. Formed in 1992, the Women In The Profession Committee was established with the goal of implementing the committee’s recommendations to insure fair treatment of women in the legal profession, as well as serving as a sounding board for woman attorneys working within the North Carolina Bar Association.

“I am delighted at the opportunity to contribute to the Women In The Profession Committee,” said Mitterling. “Securing full and equal participation in the NC Bar Association, the legal profession and the justice system is vital to the future of women’s participation and advancement in the North Carolina legal system.”

About Sandra Mitterling:

Sandra Mitterling is an associate attorney at Ragsdale Liggett PLLC, where she practices in the firm’s litigation department in the primary areas of insurance defense and general commercial litigation. Admitted in North Carolina state courts as well as United States District Court for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina and the Fourth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, Sandy is well equipped to represent a wide variety of clients. She is a member of the American, North Carolina and Wake County Bar Associations. In her insurance defense practice, Sandy frequently defends construction design professionals such as architects and engineers in complaints before state licensing boards. Through various insurance companies, Sandy provides litigation defense for corporate clients in a variety of matters including employment, construction, mold contamination, lead exposure, minor personal injuries and contract disputes. In 1986, Sandy received an Associate of Arts degree from Peace College in Raleigh, North Carolina, and then went on to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988. Sandy enrolled in law school at UNC and graduated with 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.

7406-H Chapel Hill Road

Raleigh, NC 27607

(919) 233-6600 • (919) 233-0300 (fax)

patty@mmimarketing.com

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