Mark Atkinson, Attorney at Law

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Mark T. Atkinson

Attorney at Law

Practice Areas: Immigration & Nationality Law; Workers' Compensation; Civil Litigation; Traffic and Criminal Defense.

Admitted: 1998, North Carolina State Bar; 1998, U.S. District Court, Western District of North Carolina; 2002, U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina.

Education: Wake Forest University School of Law, J.D., 1998; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.S., 1993.

Member: Forsyth County Bar Association; North Carolina Bar Association; North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers; American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Activities: Executive Committee and Member of the Board of Directors, Hispanic/International Action Association; "La Gente y La Ley" weekly radio program, 1040 AM/1060 AM.

Languages:English and Spanish.

Biography: Mark T. Atkinson was born December 23, 1970 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. After graduation from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he worked for the American Chamber of Commerce, London, England. He returned to Winston-Salem in 1995 to attend law school at Wake Forest University. He was a member of the Wake Forest Law Review and served as Chief Justice of the Wake Forest Moot Court Board. After receiving his law degree in 1998, Mr. Atkinson joined the firm of Hedrick, Eatman, Gardner & Kincheloe, L.L.P. in Charlotte, North Carolina. His areas of practice were workers' compensation and civil litigation. In 2000-2001, he left that firm and taught English in Quito, Ecuador and San Cristobal, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Mr. Atkinson founded the Law Office of Mark T. Atkinson in August, 2001 specializing in representation of the Hispanic/Latino population in the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina.