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Profile
Mr. Dellinger has appeared in numerous state and federal tribunals handling major trial, appellate, and regulatory matters.
As a top official in the Department of Justice (Deputy Attorney General) and the Governor’s Office (Chief Legal Counsel until 2003), Mr. Dellinger worked closely with leaders in North Carolina’s executive, judicial, and legislative branches, along with state Attorneys General from across the country.
As a private sector attorney in Raleigh and, before that, in Washington, D.C. with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now Wilmer Hale), Mr. Dellinger has represented clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to civil rights and media organizations to small business owners and individuals.
Mr. Dellinger’s broad legal experience includes work in the areas of antitrust, bankruptcy, campaign finance and election law, class actions, state and federal constitutional law, consumer protection, contracts, criminal law, employment and labor law, False Claims Act and qui tam cases, financial services, health care, intellectual property, public records, securities, tax and torts. He has conducted several internal investigations and has substantial administrative law experience.
Mr. Dellinger has been an adjunct faculty member at Duke Law School and published an article in the Harvard Law Review.
Mr. Dellinger’s experience includes:
- Serving as lead counsel for a business technology company in protest proceedings for a $265 million state government contract
- Serving as lead counsel in the overturning of a $120 million state government contract wrongfully awarded
- Defending a major commercial publisher against a copyright infringement claim
- Representing an automobile manufacturer in a multi-million dollar indemnity action
- Serving as lead counsel for a Fortune 500 company in a federal court bench trial
- Representing a civil rights organization in a jury trial ranked as one of the “ten most noteworthy” in D.C. courts in an annual Legal Times survey
- Reversing, as appellate counsel, a $500,000 medical negligence judgment
- Defending North Carolina’s tax on illegal drugs against constitutional challenge
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Education
Yale University, J.D., 1993
Senior Editor, Yale Law Journal, 1992-93
University of Michigan, B.A., with honors, 1989 Professional ActivitiesGovernor’s Advisory Council on Hispanic/Latino Affairs, Member, 2001-03
North Carolina Business Laws and the Economy Commission, Recording-Secretary, 1998
Law Clerk, The Honorable J. Dickson Phillips, Jr., United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 1993-94 Awards and Publications“Toeing the Legal Lines,” The National Law Journal, December 2002
“Words Are Enough: The Troublesome Use of Photographs, Maps, and Other Images in Supreme Court Opinions,” Harvard Law Review, Vol. 110, No. 8, 1997
Thanks for Nothing: How Willie and Abe Saved Thanksgiving (children’s book), 2008
Bar Admissions
North Carolina
Practice Areas
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