Reagan Weaver – Attorney at Law

Experience

1984 - present
Practicing attorney with a civil litigation practice emphasizing employment and negligence law.

1992 - present
Mediator certified by the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission – Mr. Weaver has mediated hundreds of cases before North Carolina’s Superior Courts and the Industrial Commission. He also arbitrates cases for the American Arbitration Association and the National Arbitration Forum.

2003 - present
Administrative Law Judge for the North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.

1986 - 1996
Assistant Team Leader and Faculty member for National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Negotiations Course at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Law School.

1974 - 1980
Staff mediator and conciliator of individual and group conflicts in small Southern city (High Point, NC) with special emphasis on conflicts arising out of perceived and actual racial, sexual, or religious prejudice.

Education

BA International Studies
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1973
Primary Discipline: Economics

International Law Courses Abroad
Cambridge University, England, 1982

MBA-JD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1984

Mediation/Arbitration
Formal training in mediation and arbitration skills, including
Advanced Mediator Training, 1992 (US A&M) and arbitration training, Arbitrator I and Arbitrator II courses, among others (American Arbitration Association and National Arbitration Forum)

Memberships and Admissions

• Admitted to practice in all state courts of North Carolina and Eastern and Middle Districts of United States District Court as well as the Federal and Fourth Circuit Courts of Appeals
• North Carolina Bar Association
  Chair and Vice-Chair, Dispute Resolution Section, 1993-1995
• Wake County Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• North Carolina State Bar
• North Carolina Association for Justice
• American Association for Justice
• American Arbitration Association — Commercial & Employment Panels
• National Arbitration Forum Panels
• Martindale-Hubbell Register of Preeminent Lawyers
• 2009 North Carolina Super Lawyers
• Raleigh Rotary Club
  

Professional Development

• Course planner and participant in North Carolina Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) programs relating to Dispute Resolution
• Reporter, North Carolina Bar Association Task Force on Dispute Resolution, 1984
• Recipient, Center for Public Resources Legal Program Award for Excellence and Innovation in Alternative Dispute Resolution and Dispute Management for the 1983 paper "Orders of Reference: Ready and Waiting for Imaginative Lawyers?"
• Author, "Interracial and Cross-Cultural Relations," Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1980
  

Biographical

Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, August 29, 1951.

Mr. Weaver has been certified as a Mediator by the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission since 1992 and was active in the North Carolina Bar Association's efforts to develop the Mediated Settlement Conferences program in North Carolina.

Mr. Weaver has been married to Ardath Goldstein Weaver since 1981. They have two children, Jacob, born in 1987, and Janna, born in 1989. Ardath is on the staff of the North Carolina Arts Council and also works part-time as legal administrator for Capitol District Law Offices. They live in a c. 1915 house in Cameron Park near downtown Raleigh.

Support Staff

Paralegal Barbara Westphal and Research Consultant Gail Lee provide administrative and analytical assistance.

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