Industries Served

Manufacturing

The vitality of manufacturing companies continues to be challenged by marketplace demands for product innovation, as well as regulation, competition, economic restraints and employee issues. In many areas the substantial costs of product liability, insurance and employee benefits places increasing pressures on margins and the ability to grow. Our firm attorneys understand the pressures facing our manufacturing industry clients and we strive to help our clients develop industry specific solutions. We understand that our clients' goods must be carefully crafted in order to enable them to be successful in the marketplace. In this same light, our services are designed to respond to the challenges facing each client in its own industry. Our attorneys are experts in a wide range of legal counsel areas to the manufacturing industry, including product liability law, business litigation, personal injury litigation, employment law, taxation, real estate development and government relations. As a result, firm attorneys have deep experience with both the industry and the specific legal disputes and challenges its businesses may face. As a way of example (and not intended as an exclusive list) we serve, have served or can serve clients in the following, and similarly situated, types of manufacturing businesses:

Steel
Humidity Control Systems
Metallic Replacement Parts
Electronic Heaters
Wood Stoves
Polyurethane Protective Coatings
Corrosion Control and Industrial Adhesives
Mold Bases
Precision Grinding Machines
Custom Loudspeaker Enclosures
Plastic Pipes
Disposable Medical Products
Bicycle Gears
PE and PVC Pipe
Commercial Roofing Products
U.S. Military Footwear
Refrigeration and Incubation Systems

Representative Clients
Blue Ridge Metals Corporation
Daniels Business Services, Inc.
Dave Steel Company, Inc.
Eaton Corporation
Hasco
Progress Energy
Silver-Line Plastics Corporation
Wellco Enterprises, Inc.
Westall-Chandley Lumber Company
W.P. Hickman Company

Legal Team
W. Louis Bissette, Jr.
  • General Counsel and Representation
M. Charles "Chuck" Cloninger
  • Litigation
John Nicholas Fleming
  • General Counsel and Representation
Richard A. Kort
Rendi L. Mann-Stadt
Joseph P. McGuire
  • Litigation
Grant B. Osborne
Douglas Owen Thigpen
T. Douglas Wilson, Jr.
  • Litigation
Richard Austin Wood, Jr. (Retired)
  • General Counsel and Representation