G. Nicholas Herman practices with the Brough Law Firm based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His practice is otherwise devoted to litigation and appeals involving areas such as county and municipal defense, zoning issues, land use regulation, condemnation cases, nuisance abatement, employment law issues, business litigation and personal injury. Formerly a partner of Coleman, Bernholz, Bernholz, Gledhill, Hargrave & Herman, he focused his practice on general, criminal and civil litigation and appeals. He has extensive litigation experience in state and federal court in a wide variety of areas of law, including criminal defense, local government law, personal injury, civil rights, and employment law. He has argued numerous cases in the North Carolina Supreme Court, North Carolina Appeals, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth District. Mr. Herman s Bar activities include service as President of the Orange County Bar Association (1991), Vice President (1986), Secretary-Treasurer (1987), and as a member of the North Carolina Bar Association s Appellate Rules Study Commission. Beyond his legal duties, he has ties to academia, having served as Adjunct Professor at his alma mater, Duke Law School, as well as at various universities such as the North Carolina Central University School of Law, Campbell Law School and at Elon University. Since 1993, Mr. Herman has been engaged as a faculty member of NITA, the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, through which he has taught on trial practice, negotiation and mediation, and deposition-taking skills. He has also lectured for numerous Continuing Legal Education programs on the law of damages, witness preparation, legal aspects of drug testing, and ethical considerations in civil litigation and appellate practice.
Zachary C. Bolitho is an Assistant Professor of Law at Campbell University School of Law in Raleigh, North Carolina. He teaches Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, Federal Crimes, Trial Advocacy, and Evidence. He has twice been voted Professor of the Year by the student body at Campbell Law. Prior to joining academia, Mr. Bolitho served as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney s Office where he handled a wide variety of cases. He previously worked as a law clerk to Judge David W. McKeague of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and as an associate with the international law firm of Jones Day. He received his law degree with highest honors from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law where he served on the editorial board of the Ohio State Law Journal.
