Dorothy Bass Burch Delivers Keynote Speech At Meredith College

Ragsdale Liggett PLLC has announced that Dorothy Bass Burch, a partner at the firm, was the keynote speaker at the 2007 Meredith College Senior Banquet on April 26 at the Brownstone Hotel in downtown Raleigh. Burch spoke to this year’s graduates on "Redefining ‘All’ – A Young Woman’s Guide to the Truth About Juggling Career, Marriage and Family."

Burch is a Meredith College Alumna and Honors Scholar, receiving her bachelor’s degrees in American History and Political Science in 1988 and graduating second in her class, summa cum laude.

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News Facts:

· Dorothy Bass Burch, a partner at Ragsdale Liggett PLLC, was the keynote speaker at the 2007 Meredith College Senor Banquet on April 26 at the Brownstone Hotel in downtown Raleigh.
· Burch spoke to this year’s graduates on "Redefining ‘All’- A Young Woman’s Guide to the Truth about Juggling Career, Marriage and Family."
· Burch is a Meredith College Alumna and Honors Scholar, receiving her bachelor’s degrees in American History and Political Science in 1988 and graduating second in her class, summa cum laude.

Quotes:
"I was honored to be a part of the Meredith College Senior Banquet," said Burch. "These students have achieved remarkable academic success, and I am grateful for the opportunity to share some of my experiences as a young professional and hopefully inspire them for the future."

About Dorothy Bass Burch:
A Partner at Ragsdale Liggett PLLC, Dorothy Bass Burch practices in the firm’s corporate and real estate law departments. Dottie focuses her practice in business law, including day-to-day business counsel, business mergers and acquisitions, insurance regulatory law and commercial real estate transactions. She practices in a wide range of areas in these fields and manages younger lawyers in the firm. Dottie offers general strategic advice to the firm’s clients on a daily basis, including advice about contract negotiation, business strategies, corporate formation, management and dissolution, closing various types of financing and other transactions and assisting clients with insurance regulatory compliance and advocacy needs. She is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, a directory of top legal professionals designated by their colleagues as preeminent in their field. Dottie received her Bachelor’s Degrees in American History and Political Science from Meredith College in Raleigh, graduating second in her class, summa cum laude. Dottie went on to attend law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she received her Juris Doctor in 1991.

About Meredith College:
Chartered in 1891 and located in Raleigh, N.C., Meredith is one of the largest independent private colleges in the nation, offering a comprehensive education with an emphasis on an innovative liberal arts curriculum. At the undergraduate level, Meredith offers more than 50 programs of study. Each major is grounded in a new general education curriculum that emphasizes interdisciplinary study, experiential learning and global awareness. Through the John E. Weems Graduate School, Meredith offers coeducational graduate programs in business, music, nutrition and education. The Professional Studies Program provides non-credit continuing education to business and healthcare professionals, teachers, human resource managers and paralegals. The Community Outreach Program features a wide variety of non-credit programs for men, women and children. Currently, the student population at Meredith College includes over 2,100 students from 30 states and 16 foreign countries. For more information, visit http://www.meredith.edu.

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. 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, catastrophic personal injury defense and complex construction disputes. For more information please call (919) 787-5200 or view the firm's Web site at http://www.rl-law.com.

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Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
919-233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com

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