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Frank Goldsmith is retired from the active practice
of law and now confines his work to mediation and arbitration in
an independent practice, Goldsmith Resolutions, based in Buncombe
County. Frank may be reached there by e- mail to frank@goldsmithresolutions.com,
or you may visit his website, www.GoldsmithResolutions.com. You
may also reach him by mail at P.O. Box 102, Fairview, NC 28730.
Prior to his retirement from the firm, Frank was engaged in a litigation
practice primarily in the fields of employment law, personal injury
litigation, commercial, real estate and construction litigation,
and constitutional and civil rights law. He was certified as a mediator
in
1996 and has mediated hundreds of cases. He also taught trial advocacy
as a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke University Law School and in
various programs at other institutions, and he has lectured over
the years in a number of continuing legal education programs for
lawyers in the fields of civil rights, general civil litigation,
criminal defense, and habeas corpus litigation. He is a former Fellow
of the American College of Trial Lawyers
and has served on the Boards of Governors of both the North Carolina
Bar Association and the North Carolina Advocates for Justice (NCAJ),
serving on and chairing various committees. He has consistently
been listed in such publications as “Best Lawyers in America”
and “Super Lawyers” in the fields of alternate dispute
resolution and employment law.
A Marion native, Frank graduated from Davidson College in 1967,
studied international law and French constitutional law at the Université
de Montpellier, France, and received his Juris Doctor degree with
honors in 1970 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
where he was elected to the Order of the Coif (a legal academic
honorary society), served as Associate Editor of the North Carolina
Law Review, and received the Van Hecke-Wettach Citizenship Award
and the Student Bar Association Certificate of Service. He received
the Distinguished Alumni Award from his alma mater, Davidson College,
in 2017. He is an Army veteran.
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