Ragsdale Liggett PLLC Announces New Associate Attorney

RALEIGH, N.C. – Ragsdale Liggett PLLC has announced that Jon David Hensarling has joined the firm as an associate attorney in the litigation department. In this position, Hensarling will represent clients in complex business disputes, contract and construction disputes, professional malpractice disputes, and disputes involving unfair and deceptive trade practices, personal injury and complex insurance matters. His practice will also involve advising clients regarding e-discovery issues.

Prior to joining Ragsdale Liggett PLLC, Hensarling practiced at a large Washington, D.C. firm, where he was an associate in the trial section dedicated to litigation involving securities fraud and contract claims. He has studied at Leningrad Polytechnic University in Russia and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian/Soviet Studies and History from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. in 1992. He earned his Juris Doctor in 1996 at the University of Houston Law Center in Houston and received his Master of Liberal Arts in Russian Studies in 2005 from St. Thomas University, also in Houston.

Hensarling is a member of the North Carolina State Bar, the State Bar of Texas and the District of Columbia Bar. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. court of appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, and D.C. circuits, as well as the District of Columbia Circuit Court, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and the U.S. District courts for the Southern, Northern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas. He maintains memberships in the North Carolina Bar Association, the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, the Wake County Bar Association, the 10th Judicial District Bar and DRI, the national organization of defense trial lawyers and corporate counsel. His affiliation with DRI includes involvement with the Commercial Litigation Committee, the e-discovery Committee, the Products Liability Committee and the Professional Ethics Committee.

A native of Houston, Hensarling resides in Raleigh with his wife and two sons.

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News Facts:

• Jon David Hensarling has joined Ragsdale Liggett PLLC as an associate attorney in the litigation department.
• Hensarling will represent clients in complex business disputes, contract and construction disputes, professional malpractice disputes, and disputes involving unfair and deceptive trade practices, personal injury and complex insurance matters.
• His practice will also involve advising clients regarding e-discovery issues.
• Hensarling has studied at Leningrad Polytechnic University in Russia and received a Bachelor of Arts in Russian/Soviet Studies and History from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1992.
• He earned his Juris Doctor in 1996 at the University of Houston Law Center in Houston, Texas.
• Hensarling received his Master of Liberal Arts in Russian Studies from St. Thomas University in Houston in 2005.
• A native of Houston, he resides in Raleigh with his wife and two sons.

Quotes:
“We are honored to welcome Jon to the Ragsdale Liggett team,” said George Ragsdale, senior partner and founding member of Ragsdale Liggett PLLC. “His professional experience and dedication to his practice make him an extremely valuable asset to our committed team of legal professionals.”

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.

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