Roberts & Stevens,
P.A.
BB&T Building, Suite 1100
One West Pack Square
PO Box 7647
Asheville, NC 28802
828.252.6600
www.roberts-stevens.com
aphornthal@roberts-stevens.com
direct dial: 828.210.6815
fax: 828.253.7200
Practices & Industries
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate Practice
- Business Law
- Construction Law
- Health Care
- Hospitality & Tourism
- Insurance Coverage
- Litigation
- Manufacturers & Distributors
- Medical Malpractice
- Personal Injury & Wrongful Death
- Products Liability
- Real Estate Law
- Sports Law
Community Service
- Leadership Asheville Graduate, Class 29, 2011
- Pisgah Legal Services, Board of Directors, 2012-present
- WCQS Public Radio Community Advisory Board Chairperson, 2006-2009; Board Member, 2006-2012
- Pisgah Legal Services Mountain Area Volunteers Lawyer, volunteer, 2007-present
- Trinity Episcopal Church, Member, 2007-present
- AmeriCorps Volunteer Program, Alumnus, 2001-2002
Ann-Patton Hornthal
Ann-Patton Hornthal is a litigator at Roberts & Stevens practicing regularly in both U.S. Federal and North Carolina State courts in civil litigation. Her experience covers a broad spectrum of matters, including defending claims involving professional malpractice, medical malpractice, personal injury, products liability, business torts, employment, commercial issues, and real property disputes. Ann-Patton's peers have honored her as a North Carolina Super Lawyer Rising Star in both 2011 and 2012.
Ann-Patton has handled numerous appeals before the appellate courts in North Carolina. She is frequently involved in brief writing and in oral arguments before these appellate courts.
Ann-Patton has successfully represented clients before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth Circuits, the United States District Court for the Western and Eastern Districts of North Carolina, and all North Carolina state courts.
Before joining Roberts & Stevens, Ann-Patton graduated, magna cum laude, from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University. While in law school, Ann-Patton was an intern for the Honorable Hugh Lawson, Federal District Court Judge for the Middle District of Georgia, the Georgia Survey Editor of the Mercer Law Review, and a member of the National and Georgia Intrastate Moot Court teams. Before law school, Ann-Patton served as an AmeriCorps volunteer for Habitat for Humanity in Missoula, Montana.
Professional
- North
Carolina Super Lawyers, Civil Litigation
Defense, Rising Star, 2011-2012
- Western District of North
Carolina Federal Bar Association
- North Carolina State Bar
- North Carolina Bar
Association, Sections: Litigation,
Sports & Entertainment Law, Young Lawyers Division; member of
Medico-Legal Liaison Committee, 2009- present
- American Bar Association,
Sections: Real Property and Federal
- North Carolina Association
of Defense Attorneys, Young Lawyers Committee, 2009-present, Member,
2006-present
- Defense Research Institute,
2006-present
- Author,
case note, 'A New Era of Dead-Beat Dads: Determining Social Security
Survivor Benefits for Children Who Are Posthumously Conceived,' 56
Mercer Law Review 759, 2005
- National Association of
Women Lawyers, Outstanding Woman Law Graduate, 2006
- Mercer Law Review, Georgia
Survey Editor, 2005-2006
- National Moot Court Team, 2006
Experience
- Professional
liability defense, including legal
malpractice defense on behalf of law firms and attorneys and negligence
claims against real estate brokers
- Medical malpractice defense
on behalf of hospitals, physicians, and nursing homes
- Commercial
litigation and business torts, including breach of contract, fraud,
unfair and deceptive trade practices, misappropriation of trade
secrets, breach of noncompete agreements, tortious interference with
contractual or business relationships, breach of fiduciary duty, and
veil piercing
- Personal injury, products
liability, and wrongful death litigation
- Healthcare litigation,
including representation of pharmaceutical and medical device
manufacturers in tort litigation
- Construction litigation
- Defamation
actions for libel and slander
- Property litigation,
including toxic tort, trespass, nuisance, adverse possession, quiet
title actions, and easement disputes
- Appellate litigation, including extensive practice before the North Carolina Supreme Court and North Carolina Court of Appeals
Education
- Birmingham-Southern College, BA, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 2001
- Mercer University, School of Law, JD, magna cum laude, 2006
Bar & Court Admissions
- North Carolina State Courts
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, North Carolina, Western and Eastern Districts
- Cherokee Tribal Court
- Western District of North Carolina Federal Bar Association
- North Carolina State Bar
- North Carolina Bar Association, Sections: Litigation, Sports & Entertainment Law, Young Lawyers Division; member of Medico-Legal Liaison Committee, 2009 - present
- American Bar Association, Sections: Real Property and Federal