“I am focused on my clients cases, I work hard to reach a favorable outcome.” – Philip A. Mullins
Philip A. Mullins Law, P.C. is located in Durham, North Carolina. The firm is there to help answer your questions. Judicial matters can be complicated, their experts are on hand to help inform you of every aspect regarding your case. While many matters are settled prior to trial, your attorney must be ready and able to litigate your matter if that’s what is need to achieve your desired goal. The firm thoroughly prepares every client’s case from the very start to maximize their results. At Philip A Mullins, P.C. they are committed to providing a high level of personal attention while working diligently for the best possible outcome in your legal matter. They take great pride in successfully handling settlements and professional recognitions, but it’s helping people in their time of need that continues to drive them.
Philip Mullins has handled trial and appellate cases throughout North Carolina since 1993. Over the years he has tried complex jury trials, handled appeals, and represented a wide range of individual and corporate clients, including McDonald’s, Kmart and numerous insurance companies.
He has extensive litigation experience beginning in 1993 when he was an attorney for over 10 different insurance carriers and also represented several large businesses including Fortune 500 corporations. Philip’s knowledge of how opponents approach cases, and his reputation for winning cases because of his skill, expertise and hard work well deserved. In serious personal injury cases, he stopped taking insurance defense work in 2000 and since 2000 has been handling cases exclusively for injured people and their families. In civil cases not involving personal injury, Philip has been handling business litigation and other civil cases since the mid-1990’s.
Philip has been instrumental in obtaining numerous multi-million dollar verdicts and negotiated settlements involving serious personal injury and wrongful death cases arising from automobile collisions, trucking wrecks, motorcycle crashes, and industrial accidents. He has handled several business litigation disputes where millions of dollars in damages were involved.
He has also represented businesses and business owners in complex business litigation cases. Philip has been associated by other law firms and trial attorneys to work with them in representing their clients in significant cases.
Philip received his J.D. from Campbell University, 1993 and B. A. from Wheaton College, 1988. At Campbell he was selected to represent the school on the International Moot Court team, was a published member of the Campbell Law Review and received the Thomas Anderson Scholarship. Also during law school he held the position of law clerk to the North Carolina OSHA Review Board.
Philip is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, one of the most prestigious groups of trial lawyers in the country with membership limited to attorneys who have won million and multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements and was named to the “Top 100 Trial Lawyers in North Carolina” by the American Trial Lawyers Association. Philip has been voted by his peers as one of “The Best Lawyers in America” which is considered to be a singular honor conferred on a lawyer by his peers, and has an AV Preeminent® rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest peer rating available for legal skill and ethics.
Philip is also member of the North Carolina Bar Association, Durham County Captain for the North Carolina Advocates for Justice, American Bar Association, and Durham County Bar Association where he served as President in 2010-11. Philip has served as an officer within committees for the Durham County Bar Association, including the Chairman of the Grievance Committee.
Philip is admitted to practice in the courts of the State of North Carolina and the United States District Court for the Middle and Eastern Districts of North Carolina, the Fourth Circuit United States Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
Philip has authored articles and spoken at seminars for the education of trial lawyers.
Philip works closely with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and has spoken frequently at events and fundraisers throughout Eastern North Carolina, successfully raising significant money to find the cure for Type 1 diabetes. His two sons both have juvenile onset diabetes (Type 1 diabetes).
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