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Angela Farag Craddock
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Angela Farag Craddock is a partner at Young Moore, focusing her practice on helping businesses and institutional clients navigate civil litigation, state administrative litigation, and appeals. She leads the firm’s Appellate Practice and is a member of the Transportation and Logistics, Workers’ Compensation, and Insurance Regulation Practice groups. She also helped to spearhead formation of Young Moore’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee as its inaugural Chair and has been a key contributor to recruiting efforts throughout her tenure with the firm.
Angela has developed a burgeoning appellate practice across several areas of civil, administrative, and regulatory practice. Because of her expertise, trial counsel routinely refer matters to Angela for handling throughout the appellate process. They also enlist her services to consult or collaborate in positioning and preserving key appellate issues at trial and in developing innovative procedural, briefing, and oral argument strategies for appeals. She is frequently called upon to prepare amicus curiae briefs for industry groups in important cases passing through our appellate courts. Active in the North Carolina Bar Association, Angela has served on its Appellate Rules Committee and was recently elected to serve as Chair of its Appellate Practice Section for the 2023-2024 term.
As a litigator, Angela is a member of Young Moore’s Transportation and Logistics team and advises and represents clients in matters involving trucking accidents and litigation. She has assisted insurance companies servicing the trucking industry in resolving occupational compensation and occupational accident insurance claims and has extensive experience in representing employers and insurers in transportation and other industries through all stages of worker’s compensation claims litigation before the North Carolina Industrial Commission and appellate courts.
Angela was voted into Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite™ Appellate Practice Hall of Fame in 2023 and is recognized in Best Lawyers in America® and North Carolina Super Lawyers. She is also a recipient of the Westfield Golden Gavel Award in recognition of her outstanding achievement in appellate advocacy.
Angela lives in Wake Forest with her husband, Tyler. In her spare time she is a passionate Tar Heel fan, a country music enthusiast, and enjoys singing, guitar, and film.
Education & Bar Admissions
- J.D., with honors, University of North Carolina School of Law, 2004
- B.A., with honors and distinction, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001
Admitted in
- North Carolina
- U.S. District Courts for North Carolina
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Achievements
- Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America©, Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers (2019-2024); Insurance Law (2022-2024); and Appellate Practice (2024)
- Listed among Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite™, Appellate (2020- 2023); Top winner and named to Hall of Fame in Appellate category (2023)
- Recognized in North Carolina Super Lawyers®, Workers’ Compensation (2021), Appellate (2022-2023)
- Selected to the North Carolina Rising Stars list (2014-2018) published by Super Lawyers®
- Recipient of the Westfield Insurance Group Golden Gavel Award (2013)
- AV-Preeminent Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell
- Robert R. Merhige, Jr. National Environmental Negotiation Competition, semi-finalist (2004)
- UNC Holderness Moot Court Executive Board Member
- UNC Holderness Moot Court Environmental Negotiation Team
- Honors Thesis in Public Policy Analysis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2001)
Activities
- ALFA International Diversity Leaders Forum
- North Carolina Bar Association
- Appellate Practice Section, incoming Section Chair for 2023-2024 term
- Vice Chair (2022-2023)
- Treasurer (2021-2022)
- Secretary (2020-2021)
- Section Council (2018-2020)
- CLE Committee Chair (2018-2019)
- Appellate Rules Committee (2017-2022)
- Workers’ Compensation Section
- Section Council (2016-2019)
- CLE Committee Chair (2017-2018)
- Appellate Practice Section, incoming Section Chair for 2023-2024 term
- Wake County Bar Association
- Wake County Bar Awards annual fundraiser for Legal Aid of North Carolina (2014-2022)
- Performer
- Creative Committee
- Wake County Bar Awards annual fundraiser for Legal Aid of North Carolina (2014-2022)
- Tenth Judicial District Bar
- Defense Research Institute
- North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys
Publications & Presentations
- “Appearing Before the NC Court of Appeals,” 2021 Workers’ Compensation Fall Program CLE, The Basics of Workers’ Compensation, North Carolina Bar Association, November 2021
- “The Opioid Epidemic in 2017: What’s Working? What Isn’t? What Challenges Lie Ahead?” Young Moore Seminar, March 2017
- The Ethics of Handling North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Claims: A Comprehensive Guide to Putting the Theory into Practice,” Carolina Case Management Continuing Education Seminar, September 21, 2011
- Panelist on Briefing Methods, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Holderness Moot Court Training Camp,” September 15, 2012
- “Ethics in Case Management,” International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals—Carolinas Chapter Fall Seminar, November 2, 2012
Milestones
- Cromartie v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, 284 N.C. App. 605, 877 S.E.2d 308 (2022)
- Setzer v. Monarch Projects LLC, 873 S.E.2d 770, review denied, 880 S.E.2d 701 (N.C. 2022)
- Cunningham v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, 381 N.C. 10, 871 S.E.2d 724 (2022)
- Jackson v. Duke Univ. Health Sys., Inc., 860 S.E.2d 927, 2021-NCCOA-434
- Cunningham v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 273 N.C. App. 497, 849 S.E.2d 880 (2020)
- Jonna v. Yaramada, 273 N.C. App. 93, 848 S.E.2d 33 (2020)
- North Carolina Reinsurance Facility v. Causey and Allstate Indemnity Company, 265 N.C. App. 615, 830 S.E.2d 850, review denied, 373 N.C. 59, 832 S.E.2d 731 (2019)
- Woodard v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, 825 S.E.2d 705 (2019)
- Davis v. Rizzo, 261 N.C. App. 9, 819 S.E.2d 574 (2018)
- Winkler v. North Carolina State Board of Plumbing Heating and Fire Sprinkler Contractors (II), 261 N.C. App. 106, 819 S.E.2d 105 (2018), aff’d as modified sub nom., 374 N.C. 726, 843 S.E.2d 207 (2020)
- North Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company, Inc. v. Lilley, 808 S.E.2d 925, review denied, 817 S.E.2d 204 (2018)
- Discovery Insurance Company v. North Carolina Department of Insurance and North Carolina Reinsurance Facility, 255 N.C. App. 696, 870 S.E.2d 582 (2017)
- Norton v. Scotland Memorial Hospital, Inc., 250C. App. 392, 793 S.E.2d 703 (2016)
- Whicker v. Compass Group USA, Inc., 264 N.C. App. 791, 784 S.E.2d 564, review denied, 369 N.C. 69, 793 S.E.2d 228 (2016)
- Winkler v, State Board of Examiners of Plumbing, Heating and Fire Sprinkler Contractors, 249 N.C. App. 578, 790 S.E.2d 727 (2016)
- Johnson v. Gooden, 248 N.C. App. 837, 791 S.E.2d 283 (2016)
- Pait v. Southeastern General Hospital, 219 N.C. App. 403, 724 S.E.2d 618, review denied, 366 N.C. 223, 726 S.E.2d 631 (2012)
- Sharpe v. Rex Healthcare, 633 S.E.2d 702, 179 N.C. App. 365 (2006)
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