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Craige Jenkins Liipfert & Walker LLP has been awarded the 2018 Winston-Salem Journal Readers’ Choice Award for Best Law Firm! CJLW is rated #1 Best Law Firm. We are honored to receive this distinctions and we thank all of the community members who voted for us. We are very proud to be of service to you each and every day. Read More

Julian Robb, partner at Craige Jenkins Liipfert & Walker LLP, has been awarded the 2018 Winston-Salem Journal Readers’ Choice Award for Best Real Estate Attorney! Julian is a board-certified specialist in both Residential and Commercial Real Property Law. During his 20 years of practice, Julian has helped many individuals and families achieve their dream of home ownership, and has assisted countless businesses in their efforts to grow and thrive. Thank you to the members of community for voting in the… Read More

Rebecca Smitherman has been elected as a Fellow to The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (“ACTEC”).  ACTEC peer-elects a class of Fellows from across the United States as well as internationally, and its selection process is rigorous.  ACTEC’s press release describes the organization and its membership as follows: ACTEC is an organization of peer-elected trust and estate lawyers and law professors who are skilled and experienced in: the preparation of wills and revocable and irrevocable trusts; probate; trust,… Read More

On Friday, April 13, 2018, Craige Jenkins attorneys, staff, and our friends and colleagues in the community attended the 2018 Annual Pinwheel Gala, held by The Parenting PATH (formerly Exchange/SCAN).  Assistant District Attorney Jessica Spencer, Chairperson, and Elizabeth Miller, Executive Director, were the hospitable hosts for the evening.  The event featured a silent auction, a live auction, a D.J., a Community Hero award presentation, and even a moving testimonial from an individual in the community whose life had been changed… Read More

Attorney and staff volunteers from Craige Jenkins Liipfert & Walker gathered together this week at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church to help serve dinner to women experiencing homelessness.  St. Timothy’s serves as an overflow shelter for women, where guests are able to get a warm meal, a change of clothes, and a full night’s sleep supervised by volunteer monitors.  The church works together with a local non-profit organization to provide shelter during the coldest months of the year. As our Craige… Read More

Rebecca L. Smitherman has been selected by her peers for inclusion in the 24th edition of The Best Lawyers in America for her work in elder law & trusts and estates. The Best Lawyers in America was first published in 1983. Since then, the same tried and tested peer review process has been used consistently for more than thirty years. While the scope and scale of this publication has dramatically grown over the past three decades, the core mission of… Read More

Craige Jenkins Liipfert & Walker is pleased to announce that Crissy Dixon has joined the firm as an Associate. Crissy concentrates her practice in the areas of Estate Planning, Trust and Estate Administration, and Tax. She received her J.D. from Wake Forest in 2016 where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy and received The National Association of Women Lawyers Outstanding Student Award upon graduation. Crissy received her B.A. from Rutgers University in 2013… Read More

Business NC has named two of our attorneys – Julian Robb in Real Estate and Rebecca Smitherman as a “Young Gun” – to their 2017 list of the legal elites! We are very proud to have such talent and dedication at our law firm. Julian Robb Rebecca Smitherman Read More