Name: James E. R. Ratledge
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JAMES E. R. RATLEDGE
Mr. Ratledge was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1984, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. While in college he received the President’s Scholarship and was a Lyndon Baines Johnson Scholar. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law in 1987.
After graduating from college, but prior to attending law school, Mr. Ratledge worked for United States Representative James McClure Clarke, in Washington, D.C. After graduating from law school, Mr. Ratledge practiced with the law firm of Hafer, Day & Wilson, P.A., where he concentrated in commercial litigation, products liability defense and insurance defense litigation. In 1994 Mr. Ratledge joined the law firm of Teague, Campbell, Dennis & Gorham, L.L.P., where he became a partner and his practice included the defense of products liability, and workers’ compensation claims. In 2001 Mr. Ratledge co-founded Wilson Ratledge, P.L.L.C. where he specializes in commercial, civil and workers’ compensation defense litigation and heads the litigation section. Mr. Ratledge is also a DRC Certified Mediator.
Mr. Ratledge is a member of the American Bar Association, The North Carolina Bar Association, the North Carolina State Bar and the Wake County Bar Association, the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys and the Defense Research Institute. He is licensed to practice before the Eastern, Middle and Western Federal Districts Court of North Carolina, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. Since 2006 he has repeatedly been named as a “Super Lawyers” in North Carolina. Mr. Ratledge routinely speaks on workers compensation issues to state and local governments, industrial and manufacturing associations, medical professionals, business owners and management, and risk management professionals.

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