Monday, December 21, 2009

Lisa Piercy Of Ragsdale Liggett PLLC Named 2009 Women Extraordinaire

Ragsdale Liggett PLLC (www.rl-law.com) has appear that Lisa Piercy, administrator of the Lobbying and Government Relations Group at the firm, has been called a 2009 Women Extraordinaire almsman by Business Leader magazine. Women Extraordinaire honorees are accustomed for accepting leaders, innovators, botheration solvers and inspirations to added women. These women serve the association by authoritative a aberration for aces causes or by accouterment leadership, administration or abutment to a service-based professional, borough or accommodating organization. Sixteen women business leaders in the Triangle were accustomed at an awards celebration on Dec. 7 and will be featured in an accessible affair of Business Leader magazine.

QUOTES:
“We are admiring that Lisa has been accustomed with this honor,” said Frank R. Liggett III, a founding affiliate and managing accomplice at the firm. “She has apparent amazing administration as a changeable in the lobbying and government relations acreage and at Ragsdale Liggett.”

DETAILS:
- Piercy’s convenance is adherent to lobbying on account of the firm’s audience and accouterment consulting casework accompanying to government agency matters.

- She has added than 20 years of government relations experience, accepting endemic and operated a Triangle lobbying and consulting close for 11 of those years.

- As one of actual few women in NC who accept operated as an absolute arrangement lobbyist, Piercy has advocated on account of such audience as Duke Energy Carolinas, the N.C. Dental Society, YMCAs of North Carolina, Special Olympics World Games and the North Carolina Chamber (formerly NCCBI).

- Piercy served as Assistant Secretary for Administration beneath Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. and as an ambitious development specialist in the Department of Commerce. She aswell was appointed to a four-year appellation on the Employment Security Commission by Gov. Hunt.

- An alum of Meredith College, Piercy is committed to giving aback to the academy and serves on the Meredith Fund axle of directors. She is a above axle affiliate of the Capital Area YMCA and Central YMCA, and has served on the axle of admiral of the Urban Ministries of Raleigh.

- Women Extraordinaire nominees have to be C-level admiral (or agnate at non-commercial entities), business owners or ally at Research Triangle area-based businesses.

ABOUT RAGSDALE LIGGETT PLLC:
The law close of Ragsdale Liggett PLLC is comprised of attorneys with all-encompassing acknowledged ability above a ample ambit of convenance areas, as able-bodied as accomplished non-lawyer professionals. Known for their innovations in the amphitheatre of accumulated law, absolute acreage and circuitous litigation, Ragsdale Liggett attorneys are able to handle all of the acknowledged needs of businesses including formation, circadian business counseling, acquisition, disposition, alliance and dissolution of companies alignment in admeasurement from baby bounded businesses to civic banking institutions and ample all-embracing allowance conglomerates. The assorted absolute acreage convenance accumulation at Ragsdale Liggett handles a advanced array of absolute acreage transactions, from residential purchases and sales to all aspects of bartering absolute acreage development, including article formation, final activity completion, circuitous accessible and clandestine band costs transactions, and the privatization of university apprentice housing. Since its accumulation in 1972, the close has developed an amazing acceptability in the across of noncombatant action and has enjoyed cogent attorneys successes alignment from accompaniment and federal courts to the United States Supreme Court in areas with extensive implications, such as insurance/reinsurance advantage disputes, actor acquired actions, ERISA disputes, able apathy defense, accountants accountability actions, adverse claimed abrasion aegis and circuitous architecture disputes. In 2008, the close formally accustomed a lobbying and government relations accumulation comprised of both advocate and non-lawyer professionals that represents applicant interests afore the North Carolina General Assembly, the controlling annex and assorted accompaniment agencies. For added information, amuse alarm (919) 787-5200 or appearance the firm's Web website at www.rl-law.com.

Kate Catlin
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
kate@mmipublicrelations.com http://twitter.com/MMIPR
www.mmipublicrelations.com

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