Clients hire Troy to protect their vital interests when cases are appealed. 

Setting the stage for a successful appeal often means hiring an appellate attorney while the case is still at trial. Troy works alongside trial counsel, collaborating on critical motions to ensure that clients are well positioned on appeal. Once a judgment is entered, clients rely on Troy either to defend their judgment or find creative paths to reversal.

In 2024, Troy was voted the state’s top appellate lawyer by Business North Carolina. Troy has also been certified by the North Carolina State Bar as an appellate specialist. He has a wide variety of trial and appellate experience involving class actions, antitrust, employment, land use, and family law cases. He also litigates commercial disputes in federal and North Carolina Business courts.

Before joining the firm, Troy was a partner at one of the nation’s 100 largest law firms, where he handled appeals in courts across the country. Before that, Troy was a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder of the Middle District of North Carolina. During law school, Troy was an intern to the Honorable Justice Mark Martin of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. He also interned with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolina and externed with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina. In addition, Troy served as the North Carolina Law Review's articles editor.

Representative Matters

Troy frequently represents clients in precedent-setting cases. For example, in 2021, he persuaded the Supreme Court of North Carolina to unanimously recognize that children have a right, under the state constitution, to a learning environment free from abuse. Before then, lower courts had for a decade refused to recognize such a right.

Troy has also prevailed on appeal for large corporations, such as Wal-Mart, state agencies and counties like the North Carolina Board of Physical Therapy Examiners and Harnett County, as well as many individuals and small businesses.

Pro Bono Work

Troy dedicates his pro bono work to giving victims a voice. After graduating from law school, Troy served as a guardian ad litem for abused and neglected children. He then served as an appellate attorney for the same cases in North Carolina’s appellate courts. Troy has also filed numerous amicus curiae briefs on behalf of victims and victims’ rights organizations in state and federal appellate courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Troy was also trusted to create and administer North Carolina’s Appellate Pro Bono Program, which is a partnership between the state’s appellate courts and the appellate bar.

    • Legal Elite Hall of Fame for Appellate Law, Business North Carolina

    • Selected to the “Ones to Watch” list for Appellate Practice and Commercial Litigation in Raleigh, NC by Best Lawyers (2021-2024)

    • Selected to the "Super Lawyers Rising Stars" list for Business Litigation (2019-2021) and Appellate (2022-2024) in North Carolina by Super Lawyers

    • Received North Carolina Bar Association’s Young Lawyer Pro Bono Service Award (2023)

    • Law Clerk to United States District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder, Middle District of North Carolina, 2014-2015

    • Extern to Associate Justice Mark Martin, North Carolina Supreme Court, 2012

    • University of North Carolina School of Law, J.D., 2014, magna cum laude; Order of the Coif; Articles editor, North Carolina Law Review

    • Duke University, B.A., 2011, magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa

    • North Carolina

    • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third, Fourth, and Eleventh Circuits

    • U.S. District Court for the Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts of North Carolina

    • President, Triangle Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society

    • Member, Appellate Rules Committee of the North Carolina Bar Association

    • Former co-chair and council member, Appellate Practice Section, North Carolina Bar Association

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