Earl Taylor grew up on a family farm near Rocky Mount, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill in 1986. As a trial attorney, Mr. Taylor has been representing injured persons and their families for the past 31 years. He has successfully tried hundreds of cases and successfully settled thousands of cases. He has worked to achieve significant jury verdicts for personal injury, wrongful death, tractor-trailer accidents, trucking accidents, medical malpractice, automobile accidents, and motorcycle accidents. Mr. Taylor has been honored as one of the Top Trial Lawyers in America by his inclusion in the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Membership is limited to attorneys who have won million and multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements. Fewer than 1% of U.S. lawyers are members. Other honors awarded to Mr. Taylor have been his invitation and acceptance into the Best Attorneys of America, the National Trial Lawyers Top 100, the Attorney and Practice Magazine's Top 10 Personal Injury Attorney in North Carolina, and the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys 10 Best for North Carolina. His North Carolina peers have also selected Mr. Taylor to the North Carolina Super Lawyers list.

When you have been injured, there are laws that protect your rights and interests. At Whitley Law Firm in North Carolina, we have a great respect and concern for the law, for the concepts of fairness and justice, and for our seriously injured clients. We have offices in Charlotte, Raleigh, New Bern, Jacksonville, Kinston, and Greenville and represent clients throughout the entire state in all types of civil matters, including personal injury cases (auto accidents, slip and fall injuries, motorcycle accidents, dog bites), workers' compensation matters (workplace accidents and injuries) and social security cases. We are committed to the highest quality client service and one-on-one attention to each of our clients as we help them through this difficult time.

Shawn Howard earned his undergraduate and law degrees at the University of North Carolina, graduating with honors. He represents North Carolinians throughout the state who have been seriously injured due to another person’s negligence or intentional wrongdoing. Shawn was named a Super Lawyer Rising Star from 2016-2020. For the past two years, he has been rated as a Super Lawyer. He is a member of both the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, organizations with membership restricted to those attorneys who have won million and multi-million dollar settlements or verdicts for their clients. Shawn lives in Raleigh with his wife Samantha, son Evan, and daughter Quinn.

Chris grew up in Maryland and attended high school in Norfolk, Virginia. From 1982 to 1987 he attended and then was graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana with a B.S. degree. He attended the University of Dayton School of Law where he received his Juris Doctorate degree in 1991. Mr. Kessler was admitted to the North Carolina State Bar in 1992. Chris has two daughters. Chris and has family attend Covenant Church in Winterville, North Carolina. Chris is a Christian and he serves the Lord, in part, by offering free Bibles to anyone who asks. For years, Mr. Kessler has been keeping English and Spanish printed Bibles in his lobby - free to everyone. He started his career as an attorney in 1992 working with Harold F. Greeson in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 1995 he moved to Tarboro, North Carolina to practice with Jimmie R. Keel. During his time in Tarboro, the law firm changed to Keel, Kessler & O’Malley, LLP. Chris worked in Tarboro until the end of 2000 when he opened his own law practice in Greenville, The Kessler Law Firm, PLLC. In 1992, he was admitted in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, and 2006 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Mr. Kessler was admitted in the United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, and the United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit in 2020. *During Mr. Kessler's career he has represented injured people at both the trial and appellate court levels. He has settled cases involving the MDL 926 Breast Implant Litigation, Medical Malpractice involving a HIV infected organ transplant, and corporate and private airplane crash cases, all in the early 1990s; Medical Malpractice involving Methotrexate use with psoriasis resulting in settlement in 1995; Medical Malpractice resulting in quadriplegia - a seven figure pretrial settlement against one defendant and a seven figure settlement against another defendant after a three week jury trial in 2000; numerous Greyhound Bus wrecks with multiple clients requiring depositions all over the United States and numerous settlements and a jury verdict between 2000-2013; On the job farming injury causing quadriplegia and resulting in a seven figure settlement in 2015; Product Liability Tire Failure and Failure to Register Tires resulting in multiple injuries and a death, resolved by settlement for seven figures against the Tire Dealer and seven figures against the Tire Manufacturer in 2015; Actos Class Action participation resulting in a settlement in 2015. In 2020, Mr. Kessler obtained a seven figure pre-suit mediation settlement in a wrongful death case where the “black box” data revealed the decedent was speeding; that is, he was contributorily negligent (which usually bars a recovery). He has been a Class Plaintiff co-counsel in numerous cases throughout the United States. He has actively participated in hundreds of depositions and has litigated and/or conducted depositions in approximately 30 states in the United States during his legal career.

Our founding attorney, Anthony Amos, is a U.S. Army veteran who has served both within the U.S. and overseas. We stand up for the rights of people who need help dealing with a complicated and intimidating legal system. If you have been denied Social Security Disability (SSD or SSDI) benefits or pursuing Workers' Compensation, we can guide you through the appeals system to pursue a better outcome, while gathering the necessary evidence to build the strongest possible case. If you were seriously injured in a car accident caused by another driver’s negligence, and you were hospitalized or had to have surgery, we can help you get the substantial compensation you need to get your life back on track. For legal assistance in North Carolina (and for SSD cases Nationwide), contact the Amos Law Firm for the help you need. It would be a privilege and an honor to serve you!