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James “Jamie” E.R. Ratledge is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Wilson Ratledge, which was formed in 2001. He has over 35 years’ experience as an attorney and began his practice representing businesses and corporations in product liability actions, as well as banking and financial institutions in transactional claims. He then turned his attention to representing individuals, trusts, and families who had been placed in abusive tax shelters, which resulted in a class-action suit and significant recoveries to parties in North Carolina, New York, Florida, and on the West Coast. Now, Mr. Ratledge represents individuals, businesses, and corporations in workers’ compensation claims, and handles employment benefit matters, as well as general commercial litigation. He also represents and advises one of the countries largest bourbon companies as to production, distilling, bottling, and alcohol related legal issues.

Mr. Ratledge graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts. While in college, he received the President’s Scholarship and was a Lyndon Banes Johnson Scholar. After graduation, Mr. Ratledge worked for United States Congressman James McClure Clarke in Washington, D.C. Thereafter, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, where he received his Juris Doctor.

Mr. Ratledge has lectured and taught extensively on workers’ compensation and employment law to state and local governments, industrial and manufacturing associations, business owners and associates, risk managers and adjusters, and medical professionals, at seminars and educational conferences.

Mr. Ratledge is a DRC Certified Mediator and earned Martindale Hubbell’s® coveted “AV Preeminent” rating. Additionally, he has received the North Carolina Super Lawyers distinction since 2006 and is listed in Chambers & Partners.

Mr. Ratledge has been recognized as one of America’s Top 100 Attorneys, a recognition which is based upon a broad array of criteria, including peer review, third-party research and analysis, professional experience, ethical standards, significant case results, reputation, and community impact.

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