Bob Whitley
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About Bob Whitley
Robert E. (Bob) Whitley is a partner at Whitley Law Firm in North Carolina, with over 40 years of personal injury law experience. He concentrates on catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases.
Whitley started his career in criminal and domestic law before transitioning to personal injury. He is eligible to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. A North Carolina native, he represents the hard-working folks he labored with in tobacco fields and saw along his paper route.
He earned his B.S.B.A. from East Carolina University in 1972 and his Juris Doctor from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1974.
Whitley is admitted to the North Carolina Bar.
He holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell and was awarded the Highest Possible Rating in Both Legal Ability and Ethical Standards by Martindale-Hubbell in 2023. He is a life member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum and was named to the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in North Carolina by The National Trial Lawyers.
The Whitley Law Firm has offices in Charlotte, Raleigh, New Bern, Jacksonville, Kinston, Durham, and Greenville, representing clients throughout North Carolina.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A commercial truck driver ran a stop sign on a North Carolina country road and killed a 60-year-old man, and his family settled their confidential wrongful-death claim for $3 million, a result that tied for 25th among the state's top verdicts and settlements of 2019.
Chase Cayton, 23, suffered a severe brain injury and a fractured right leg when a pickup turned left across his path, and his suit in Pitt County Superior Court settled for $2,988,396.
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