Walter E. Brock, Jr. has been with the firm since 1979 and is a member of the firm's Practice Management Committee, a shareholder, and a litigation team leader. His practice involves general civil litigation for individual and corporate plaintiffs and defendants, with special experience and interest in the following areas: catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death, product liability, environmental litigation, professional liability, trade secret, non-compete, and non-solicitation law and litigation, computer litigation, business and commercial litigation, breach of contract and unfair trade practice disputes, professional liability insurance coverage, first party and third party insurance bad faith litigation, and first party and casualty insurance coverage. He tries cases in the Superior Court throughout North Carolina and in each of the three federal district courts, and appears regularly in the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, in the North Carolina Supreme Court, and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He is also admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court.

Walter is a former President of the Eastern North Carolina Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates and served as the Eastern North Carolina Chapter representative on the ABOTA National Board of Directors from 1996 through 1999. He was President of the Wake County (Raleigh, North Carolina) Bar Association and Tenth Judicial District Bar Association in 1998 and President Elect in 1997. He was previously the chair of the WCBA Public Service Committee and served on the Board of the Courthouse KidsCenter, Inc. He holds memberships in the Susie M. Sharp Inns of Court, North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, North Carolina Bar Association - Litigation and Environmental Law sections, the ABA Section of Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, and the American Law Firm Association product liability and environmental law practice groups.

Walter was listed in Best Lawyers in America in 2007 and in North Carolina Super Lawyers in 2006, 2007, and 2008. He has organized seminars, authored articles, lectured, moderated panel discussions and/or given trial demonstrations on civil litigation, civil procedure and evidence, ADR and mediation, products liability, insurance bad faith litigation, insurance coverage, and environmental law. He is a 1975 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Honors in Economics. He received his law degree from UNC Chapel Hill in 1978 where he served as an Associate Justice of the Holderness Moot Court Bench. He was law clerk for the late Chief Judge Naomi E. Morris of the North Carolina Court of Appeals in 1978-79.

Walter is married to Lynne, a college instructor and doctoral candidate, and has three adult children. He is an active United Methodist and has served as adult and middle school Sunday school teacher, Chair of the Church Council, Chair of the Pastor-Parish Relations Committee, Capital Campaign chair, Finance Committee member, long range planning member, instrumental musician, and has studied Disciple I and Disciple II. His hobbies include tennis, power boating, water skiing, running, instrumental music and golf.

Publications and Presentations:

• Remarks of Walter E. Brock, Jr. at the North Carolina Court of Appeals 40th Anniversary celebration, Raleigh, NC, January 31, 2008.
• Issues Relating to "Claims Made" Coverages: ALFA Insurance Law Roundtable, New York City, June, 2003
• Spoliation of Evidence ALFA Product Liability Seminar, May, 2000
• Coverage Issues: Sexual Misconduct; Recurring Policy Issues; speaker, June, 1996.
• Insurance Law; speaker and authored A Practical Guide to North Carolina Insurance Law: Bad Faith Claims and Bad Faith Avoidance, April, 1996.
• Ethical Considerations in the Litigation Process and Bad Faith; speaker and authored Conflicts of Interest and Bad Faith Avoidance; July, 1995.
• A Practical Approach to North Carolina Insurance Law; organizer and authored A Practical Guide to Commercial General Liability Insurance Disputes in North Carolina; June, 1995.
• Insuring Environmental Risks; course coordinator and speaker, and authored After the Fact, Are You Covered Under Your Old Policy?; November, 1992.
• Hazardous Substances Litigation Workshop; speaker, "Trial Issues"; September, 1992.
• PESI-North Carolina Evidence Workshop; speaker, "Mastering the Admissibility of Evidence"; August, 1991.
• North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys Fall Seminar; speaker and co-authored Statutes of Limitation and Repose; October, 1991.
• PESI-North Carolina Depositions: Strategies, Tactics & Mechanics; speaker; September, 1990.
• A Practical Introduction to Environmental Law, course planner, North Carolina Bar Association, February, 1989.
• Liability Insurance Coverage for Environmental Pollution, National Association of Independent Insurance Adjusters, October, 1988.

Representative Decisions:

• Luther Seawell and N.C. Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co., ___N.C.App. ___, ___S.E.2d___( N.C. Ct.App., 6/17/2008)
• North Carolina Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co., Inc., v. T-N-T Carports, Inc., ___ N.C. App. ___, 649 S.E. 2d 420 (2007)
• Auto-Owners Ins. Co. v. Potter, Nos. 06-1232, 06-1298. 2007 WL 2046832 (4th Cir., July 13, 2007)
• Taylor v. North Carolina Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co., Inc., 181 N.C. App.343, 638 S.E. 2d 636 (2007)
• C & H Partnership v. Shaw Industries Group, Inc., Slip Copy, 2006 WL 1229001 (M.D.N.C., May 4, 2006)
• Auto-Owners Ins. Co. v. Potter, 105 Fed. Appx. 484 (4th Cir., 2004)
• Studio Frames Ltd. v. Standard Fire Ins. Co., 369 F. 3d 376 (4th Cir., 2004)
• Rivenbark v. North Carolina Farm bur. Mut. Ins. Co., Inc., 155 N.C. App. 777, 574 S.E. 2d 715 (2003)
• Crawford v. Commercial Union Midwest Ins. Co., 356 N.C. 609, 571 S.E. 2d 781 (2002)
• Home American Credit, Inc. v. Investors Title Ins. Co., 199 F.R.D. 563 (E.D.N.C., 2001)
• Harrison v. Ford, 210 F. 3d 361 (table, text in Westlaw, 4th Cir., 2000)
• Wm. C. Vick Const. Co. v. Pennsylvania Nat. Mut. Cas. Ins. Co., 52 F.Supp.2d 569 (E.D.N.C., 1999), affirmed, 213 F. 3d 634 (table, text in Westlaw, 4th Cir., 2000) (CGL coverage; construction defects)
• Price v. Federal Paper Bd. Co., 145 F.3d 1325 (Table, Text in Westlaw), (4th Cir., 1998)
• Pennsylvania Nat. Mut. Cas. Ins. Co. v. Triangle Paving, Inc., 973 F.Supp. 560 (E.D.N.C., 1996), 121 F.3d 699 (Table, Text in Westlaw., 4th Cir., 1997) (CGL coverage for sedimentation pollution)
• Universal Leaf Tobacco Co., Inc. v. Oldham, 113 N.C. App. 490, 439 S.E.2d (1994)
• Ryles v. Durham County Hosp. Corp., Inc., 107 N.C. App. 455, 420 S.E.2d 487 (1992)
• Daniels v. Hertz Corp., 104 N.C. App. 700, 411 S.E.2d 394 (1991)
• Pierson v. Buyher, 330 N.C. 182, 409 S.E.2d 903 (1991)
• U.S. Fire Ins. Co. v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co., 735 F.Supp. 1320 (E.D.N.C., 1990)
• Peerless Ins. Co. v. Strother and Carolina Transformer, 765 F. Supp. 866, 33 ERC 1627 (E.D.N.C., 1990) (CGL coverage for PCB contaminated transformer facility)
• C. D. Spangler Construction v. Industrial Crankshaft and Engineering Co., Inc., 326 N. C. 133, 388 S.E.2d 557 (1990) (CGL coverage for pollution and State enforcement action)
• Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co. v. U.S. Fire Ins. Co., 710 F.Supp. 164 (E.D.N.C., 1989)
• Stevens v. Lawyers Mut. Liability Ins. Co. of North Carolina, 789 F.2d 1056, 4 Fed.R.Serv.3d 1151 (4th Cir., 1986)
• Waste Management of Carolinas, Inc. v. Peerless Ins. Co., 315 N. C. 688, 340 S.E.2d 374 (1986) (CGL coverage for Superfund landfill cleanup)
• Smith v. Intermedics, Inc., 767 F.2d 82 (4th Cir., 1985)
• U.S. v. Ward, 618 F.Supp. 884, 23 ERC 1391, 16 Envtl. L.Rep. 20,127 (E.D.N.C., 1985)
• Fried v. North River Ins. Co., 710 F.2d 1022 (4th Cir.,1983)
• Wysong and Miles Co. v. Employers of Wausau, 4 F.Supp.2d 421 (M.D.N.C., 1998)
• American Multimedia, Inc. v. Commercial Union Insurance, U.S.D.C., Middle District of North Carolina (CGL coverage for unfair trade/anti-trust class action)
• Jackson v. Credit General Insurance Company, U.S.D.C., Middle District of North Carolina (CGL coverage for trucking-related accident)