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Meredith Hinton

Proven Verdicts
Raleigh, NC20 years experienceAdmitted 2005

About Meredith Hinton

Meredith S. Hinton is a personal injury attorney at Ricci Law Firm in Greenville, North Carolina, providing representation to clients in Fayetteville, Raleigh, Charlotte, Rocky Mount, and surrounding areas. Her practice focuses on car accidents, motorcycle collisions, truck accidents, and personal injury matters.

Hinton earned her Bachelor of Arts from East Carolina University and her Juris Doctor from Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law. She has been licensed in North Carolina since 2005.

She is a life member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a membership requiring verdicts and/or settlements of $1 million or more.

Hinton has been selected to Super Lawyers from 2021 to 2025 and to Rising Stars from 2017 to 2020. She has served as Membership Co-Chair and New Lawyers Division Liaison for the Auto Torts Section of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$101 millionVerdict

A Henderson County jury awarded $101 million to two masonry workers and one worker's wife after a 12-foot retaining wall, rebuilt under Hajoca's direction without an engineer or a permit, collapsed onto their crew.

Henderson County Superior Court (Hendersonville, NC) · 2026Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$21 millionSettlement

North Carolina Lawyers Weekly reported that Meredith Hinton of Ricci Law Firm resolved a motor vehicle injury claim for $21 million in 2023, one of the larger auto settlements recorded in the state that year.

2023Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$9.5 millionSettlement

Ricci Law Firm and co-counsel recovered $9.5 million for the family of an 84-year-old woman killed when a driver fleeing police ran a stop sign, with the case built on the negligent entrustment of the car to a man whose license was suspended over repeat DWI charges.

Raleigh, NC (Wake County) · 2025Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

East Carolina University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of North Carolina, admitted 2005
Million Dollar Advocates Forum (life member)
North Carolina Advocates for Justice (Auto Torts Section, former Membership Co-Chair, New Lawyers Division Liaison)

Awards & recognition

Super Lawyers (2021-2025)
Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2017-2020)

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$42.44 million · Fire Case Brings a $42.44 Million Settlement in North Carolina
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$40 million · Henson Fuerst Wins Record $40 Million Drunk Driving Verdict, Affirmed as Largest in North Carolina History
Maginnis Howard Personal Injury Lawyer
Maginnis Howard Personal Injury Lawyer
$8.62 million · $8.62 Million Settlement After Former UNC Student Drove Wrong-Way on I-85, Killing Three
Law Offices of James Scott Farrin
Law Offices of James Scott Farrin
$1.25 billion · Black Farmers Secure $1.25 Billion From USDA in Pigford II Settlement
Martin & Jones
Martin & Jones
$31 million · $31 Million Settlement After Two-Point Lap Belt Paralyzed an 11-Year-Old in a Ford Escort