2013 Legal Elite winner: Antitrust - NOEL ALLEN, Allen, Pinnix and Nichols PA, Raleigh

2013 Legal Elite winner: Bankruptcy - TRAWICK H. "BUZZY" STUBBS, Stubbs & Perdue PA, New Bern

2013 Legal Elite winner: Business - GRAYSON S. HALE, Morningstar Law Group, Morrisville

2013 Legal Elite winner: Construction - RICHARD CONNER, Conner Gwyn Schenck PLLC, Greensboro

2013 Legal Elite winner: Corporate Counsel - ROBERT WICKER, General Parts International Inc., Raleigh

Free & Clear: Unwieldy and expensive, the public university's role as all things to all people relies on a combination of guild monopoly, political power and public awe.

Capital Goods: Pat McCrory supports charter schools, but he has been hesitant to embrace controversial parts of the right's education agenda, such as vouchers for private schools.

Up Front: Global learning helps our children succeed.

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2012 — North Carolina's year in bloopers.

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2013 Legal Elite winner: Criminal - PETER C. ANDERSON, Beveridge & Diamond PC, Charlotte

2013 Legal Elite winner: Employment - W. RANDALL LOFTIS JR., Constangy, Brooks & Smith LLP, Winston-Salem

2013 Legal Elite winner: Environmental - GRADY L. SHIELDS, Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP, Raleigh

2013 Legal Elite winner: Family - STAN BROWN, Hamilton Stephens Steele & Martin PLLC, Charlotte

2013 Legal Elite winner: Intellectual Property - ANTHONY BILLER, Coats & Bennett PLLC, Cary

2013 Legal Elite winner: Litigation - LEE M. WHITMAN, Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP, Raleigh

2013 Legal Elite winner: Real Estate - ROBERT CHARLES LAWSON, Williams Mullen, Raleigh

2013 Legal Elite winner: Tax / Estate Planning - ANDREW H. VEACH, Edwards Craver Veach PLLC, Winston-Salem