Our Attorneys

Thomas H. Morris

Mr. Morris was educated at Wake Forest University where he earned his B.A. degree in 1958, and after two years of service in the U.S. Navy earned his J.D. degree in 1963. He was licensed to practice…

P. C. Barwick, Jr.

Mr. Barwick received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Wake Forest University where he was a member of the Honor Council and Sigma Phi Epislon fraternity.  While in law school, Mr. Barwick was a member of Phi…

James P. Cauley, III

Mr. Cauley has served as a legal instructor at Campbell University School of Law, Barton College and Wilson Technical College.  He was a member of Delta Theta Phi and was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa. While in…

Paul N. Blake, III

Mr. Blake has been representing a variety of clients (individuals, small businesses and large corporations) since being admitted to the practice of law in 1990. He is admitted to practice before all N.C. state courts, the U.S.…

Richard F. Landis, II

Mr. Landis was born in York, Pennsylvania on April 27, 1948. While at Wake Forest University School of Law he was a member of Phi Delta Phi.

Stuart L. Stroud

Stuart Stroud received his BA Degree in Education from UNC-Chapel Hill and his J.D. Degree from Campbell University.  While in law school, he was a member of Delta Theta Phi, a member of the ATLA Trial team…

T. Slade Rand, Jr.

Mr. Rand is admitted to practice before all North Carolina State Courts. Mr. Rand was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He is married and has a son and a daughter.

Jeffrey P. Gray

Mr. Gray serves as legal counsel to the State of North Carolina Board of Barber Examiners (2007-present).  He has served as Special Assistant to the former North Carolina Attorney General, now U.S. District Judge Lacy H. Thornburg…

J. Brian Pridgen

Mr. Pridgen was born in Wilson, North Carolina. Mr. Pridgen is admitted to practice before all North Carolina State Courts.

Kimberly Connor Benton

Ms. Benton graduated cum laude from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana in 1999 with a B.A. in Environmental Science.  She obtained her J.D. from Valparaiso University School of Law in 2002, graduating magna cum laude and as…

Jason R. Page

Mr. Page received his B.S. in Natural Resources and Master of Forestry from N.C. State University, and was a field forester for several years before attending law school. He is a North Carolina Registered Forester and a…

John E. Cargill

Mr. Cargill was born in South Boston, Virginia and attended public schools in Rutherford County, N.C.  John received his B.S. degree from North Carolina State University in 1983. As an undergraduate, he was named to the Dean’s…

Allison Pope Cooper

Allison serves as legal counsel to the N.C. Board of Barber Examiners. She has served as an instructor at Elizabeth City State University and was Co-Administrator of the 1st Judicial District Juvenile Justice Program during her former…

Patrick D. Riley

Patrick was born in San Antonio, Texas. He is married and has two dogs, an English Pointer and a Basschund (basset hound/dachshund mix).

Jefferson Glenn Griffin

Grew up in Nash County, NC in the town of Red Oak.  He graduated from Northern Nash Senior High School. Personal Interests include hunting, fishing on the Coast and Carolina sports.

Joshua D. Mahan

Mr. Mahan grew up in Rock Hill, SC where he attended Northwestern High School.  He earned his B.A. from Clemson University and his J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law.  While…

William R. Rand **

(Retired) William ‘Bill’ Ripley Rand was born in Wilson, NC on April 9, 1936. He was the youngest of three sons of Sarah Higdon Rand and Oliver Gray Rand, one of the founding partners of Rose Rand…

William A. Lucas *

(1881-1967) William ‘Will’ Alonzo Lucas, one of the firm’s founding partners was first admitted to the North Carolina bar and began practice in August of 1903. A Wilson County native, William A. Lucas was born on February…

(1895-1967) Oliver Gray Rand, one of the firm’s two founding members, was born in Goldsboro, NC on October 26, 1895. He attended the public schools in Smithfield, NC and the University of North Carolina, where he received…

Naomi E. Morris *

(1921-1986) Judge Naomi Elizabeth Morris was born in the Nash County community of Spring Hope. When she was a year old, her family moved to Wilson where she attended the public schools. She matriculated at Atlantic Christian…

Z. Hardy Rose *

(1918-1999) Zeno Hardy Rose joined the firm in 1948 and practiced over forty-five years until his retirement in late 1993. Rose was born in Wake County on February 26, 1918 but was reared in the Martin County…

Louis B. Meyer *

(1933-1999) Justice Louis B. Meyer, Jr. was born in Marion, North Carolina on July 15, 1933, but was reared in the Halifax County town of Enfield. He attended and graduated from Wake Forest College and served as…

Fitzhugh E. Wallace, Jr. *

(1917 - 2006) Fitzhugh Ellsworth Wallace, Jr. was a prominent attorney in the Kinston law firm of Wallace, Morris, Barwick, Landis & Stroud, P.A.  Wallace was born in Kenansville on February 6, 1917, the son of the…