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.