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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 state administrative litigation and appeals. She leads the firm’s Appellate Practice and is a member of the Transportation, Workers’ Compensation and Insurance Regulation Practice groups. She is also a Past Chair of Young Moore’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee and a former leader of the firm’s recruiting efforts.
Angela represents employers and insurance companies in all stages of litigation before the North Carolina Industrial Commission and North Carolina appellate courts. Her practice includes assisting clients with complex workers’ compensation matters, risk management policies, medical cost containment strategies, and in directing care toward evidence-based solutions. Through this work she has developed a particular interest in policies addressing the opioid epidemic, the growing adoption of medical marijuana laws across the country, and legal developments related to the treatment of addiction.
Angela has also developed a burgeoning appellate practice across several areas of civil, administrative, and regulatory practice, and leads the firm’s appellate practice team. Because of her expertise, trial counsel routinely enlist Angela’s services whether by taking over the handling and disposition of the entire matter on appeal, or by consulting and collaborating on appellate strategy, briefing, and preparing oral arguments. Active in the North Carolina Bar Association, Angela serves on the Executive Board of the Appellate Practice Section as its current Vice-Chair. She is frequently called upon to prepare amicus curiae briefs for industry groups in important cases passing through our appellate courts.
Angela is a recipient of the Westfield Golden Gavel Award in recognition of her outstanding achievement in appellate advocacy. She was voted into Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite™ Hall of Fame in the area of Appellate in 2023 and is recognized in Best Lawyers in America® and North Carolina Super Lawyers.
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 songwriting, 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 (2019-2023); Insurance Law (2022, 2023)
- 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, Vice Chair
- Executive Board (2020-present)
- Council Member (2018)
- CLE Chair (2018-2019)
- Appellate Rules Committee (2017-2022)
- Workers’ Compensation Section, Member
- Council Member (2016-2019)
- CLE Committee Chair (2017-2018)
- Appellate Practice Section, Vice Chair
- Wake County Bar Association
- Wake County Bar Awards – Performer in annual fundraiser for Legal Aid of North Carolina (2014-2021)
- 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
- 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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