Rachel E. Brinson

Rachel Brinson’s practice focuses primarily on business and civil litigation matters. She handles disputes involving contract drafting and interpretation; breach of fiduciary duty claims and other business torts; non-compete and non-solicitation agreements; purchase and sale of membership interests; commercial landlord-tenant disputes including summary ejectments; injunctions; actions involving fraud and unfair and deceptive trade practices; entity formation and dissolution; and closely held business disputes, especially involving limited liability companies.

Rachel has been involved in litigation in the North Carolina Business Court as well as North and South Carolina trial courts. Rachel has helped guide clients through alternative dispute resolution methods including arbitrations conducted through the American Arbitration Association as well as voluntary and mandatory mediations. She has also participated in the representation of businesses in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigations.

Rachel is a proud double Tar Heel and enjoys traveling with her husband and Australian Shepherd.

Bar Admissions

North Carolina, 2020
South Carolina, 2021
District of Columbia, 2022
U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, 2021
U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 2021

 

Education

University of North Carolina School of Law, J.D., 2020
North Carolina Banking Institute Journal, Staff and Managing Editor, 2018-2020

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., Public Relations, with distinction, 2017
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., Religious Studies, with distinction, 2017

Publications

Is the United States Becoming the “New Switzerland”?: Why the United States’ Failure to Adopt the OECD’s Common Reporting Standard is Helping it Become a Tax Haven, 23 N.C. Banking Inst. 231 (2019).

Associations and Memberships

William Bobbitt American Inn of Court, Charlotte, North Carolina