Ragsdale Liggett PLLC Attorneys Participate In 12th Annual Susan G. Komen Triangle Race For The Cure

Ragsdale Liggett PLLC (www.rl-law.com) has announced that the firm will participate in the 2008 Susan G. Komen Triangle Race for the Cure, an annual Triangle-based fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation. The race, now in its 12th year, will be held on Saturday, June 14 on the campus of Meredith College, located at 3800 Hillsborough St. Race entry fees, pledge donations and sponsorship proceeds will all benefit the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, ensure quality care for all and drive research towards a cure.

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, originating as a promise that Nancy G. Brinker made to her sister Susan G. Komen, who died of breast cancer at the age of 36, is now the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world. The North Carolina Triangle Race for the Cure attracted more than 22,000 participants in 2007 and has raised more than $7 million to support breast cancer research, education, screening and treatment programs. To volunteer or learn out more about the Susan G. Komen Triangle Race for the Cure, visit www.komennctriangle.org.

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News Facts:

• Ragsdale Liggett PLLC has announced that the firm participated in the 2008 Susan G. Komen Triangle Race for the Cure an annual Triangle-based fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation.
• The race, now in its 12th year, will be held on Saturday, June 14 on the campus of Meredith College, located at 3800 Hillsborough St.
• Race entry fees, pledge donations and sponsorship proceeds will all benefit the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, ensure quality care for all and drive research towards a cure.
• The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, originating as a promise that Nancy G. Brinker made to her sister Susan G. Komen, who died of breast cancer at the age of 36, is now the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world.
• The North Carolina Triangle Race for the Cure attracted more than 22,000 participants in 2007 and has raised more than $7 million to support breast cancer research, education, screening and treatment programs.
• To volunteer or learn out more about the Susan G. Komen Triangle Race for the Cure, visit www.komennctriangle.org.

Quotes:
"We were honored to help support this year’s Susan G. Komen Triangle Race for the Cure," said Dottie Burch, partner at Ragsdale Liggett. "The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation is a dedicated and effective organization and we are proud to take part in the fight against a disease that affects so many in our community and nationwide."

About the North Carolina Triangle Susan G. Komen Affiliate:
The North Carolina Triangle Susan G. Komen Affiliate is dedicated to assisting the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, which to date represents the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network fighting to find a cure and end to breast cancer. The Komen for the Cure promise is to save lives and end breast cancer forever by empowering people, ensuring quality of care for all and energizing science to find the cures. The organization benefits from the thousands of volunteers, service-providers, sponsors, survivors, donors and event participants who helped raise nearly to $2 million last year to support this important mission. For more information, please visit http://www.komennctriangle.org.

About Ragsdale Liggett, PLLC:
The law firm of Ragsdale Liggett, PLLC, is comprised of lawyers with extensive legal expertise across a broad range of practice areas, as well as experienced non-lawyer professionals. Known for their innovations in the arena of corporate law, Ragsdale Liggett lawyers are equipped to handle all of a business' legal needs, including formation, day-to-day business counseling, acquisition, disposition, merger and dissolution of companies ranging in size from small local businesses to national financial institutions and large international insurance conglomerates. The diverse real estate practice group at Ragsdale Liggett handles a wide variety of real estate transactions, from residential purchases and sales to all aspects of commercial real estate development, including entity formation, final project completion, complex public and private bond financing transactions, and the privatization of university student housing. Since its formation in 1972, the firm has developed an extraordinary reputation in the area of civil litigation and has enjoyed significant courtroom successes ranging from local state courts to the United States Supreme Court in areas with far-reaching implications, such as insurance/reinsurance coverage disputes, shareholder derivative actions, ERISA disputes, professional negligence defense, accountants liability actions, catastrophic personal injury defense and complex construction disputes. In 2008, the firm formally established a lobbying and government relations group comprised of both lawyer and non-lawyer professionals which represents client interests before the North Carolina General Assembly, the executive branch and various state agencies. For more information, please call (919) 787-5200 or view the firm's Web site at www.rl-law.com.

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