Firm News

White & Allen Announces New Associate

June 2, 2009

Hope Connie

KINSTON, N.C.—White & Allen, P.A. has announced that Hope Fisher Connie has been named an associate at the Eastern North Carolina law firm.

Connie, a Greenville resident, has most recently served as a contract attorney with University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina, Inc.  Prior to her work in Greenville, she was with the law firm of Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo LLC in its Charlotte office.

She has begun her general practice with White & Allen at the firm’s Kinston office.  White & Allen, P.A. also maintains offices in New Bern, Snow Hill and Goldsboro.

Connie completed her undergraduate education at North Carolina Wesleyan College in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology (magna cum laude).   She earned her law degree at Emory University School of Law in 1997 in Atlanta, Ga.

Connie, a Rocky Mount-area native, commented, “During the last three years practicing law in Greenville, I became convinced that Eastern North Carolina will experience strong growth and an improved economic picture in the long range.”

White & Allen, P.A. is a full-service law firm that has offered a wide range of legal services to Eastern North Carolina since 1927.  Its practice areas include bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, civil litigation, personal injury, commercial law, corporate law, criminal law, elder law, employee benefits, employment law, estate planning and administration, family law, health care law, real estate and tax planning.