Robert E. Harrington, Life Fellow, was installed on June 27th, as the 131st president of the North Carolina Bar Association at the organization’s annual meeting in Asheville. As president of the bar association, he also serves as the president of the North Carolina Bar Foundation.
Harrington currently co-chairs Robinson Bradshaw’s Litigation Department and, over his 30-year career, has represented corporate clients and financial institutions in a broad range of complex business disputes, including contract, trade practice, consumer lending, and other business matters. In addition to being a Life Fellow of the ABF, he is a Life member of the American Law Institute and a Senior Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America.
He was a member of the NCBA Board of Governors and the NCBF Board of Directors from 2017-2020, president of the Mecklenburg County Bar from 2012-2013, a founding co-chair of the Meck Bar’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee in 2004, and a member of the North Carolina Commission on the Administration of Law and Justice from 2015-2016.
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