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Julie Dews was born in Albany, Georgia. She received
her B.A. degree, with distinction, from the University of North
Carolina at Asheville in 1974. She received her J.D. from Northeastern
University in Boston, Massachusetts in 1990. Under Northeastern
University School of Law’s unique approach to training law
students for careers in the legal profession, known as Cooperative
Legal Education, students complete a traditional first year of academic
study and then, for the remaining two years, alternate every three
months between working full time as legal interns and attending
classes on a full-time basis. The successful completion of four
cooperative work quarters is a graduation requirement for all Northeastern
law students. She completed cooperative work quarters at the Office
of the Public Defender in Asheville, North Carolina, the firm of
Whalen, Hay, Pitts, Hugenschmidt, Devereaux & Belser in Asheville,
North Carolina, and the firm of Goldsmith and Goldsmith in Marion.
She began her practice at Goldsmith and Goldsmith in 1990. She became
a partner in the firm in 1993, and in 1996 the firm name was changed
to Goldsmith, Goldsmith and Dews, P.A.
Ms. Dews practices mainly in the areas of worker’s compensation,
Social Security disability, and personal injury. She is a member
of the American Association for Justice, the National Organization
of Social Security Claimant’s Representatives, the Worker’s
Injury Law & Advocacy Group, the North Carolina Academy of Trial
Lawyers, and the North Carolina and McDowell County Bar Associations.
She has served on the boards of Western Carolinians for Criminal
Justice, the McDowell County Criminal Justice Partnership Program,
the McDowell Care Center, Family Services of McDowell County, and
the Human Rights Committee at Broughton Hospital. She currently
serves as president of the McDowell County Bar.
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