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RALEIGH, N.C. – Sidney S. Eagles, Campbell Law School’s longest serving adjunct professor and an attorney with Smith Moore Leatherwood in Raleigh, has been awarded the 2008 Joseph Branch Professionalism Award by the Wake County Bar Association.
The award recognizes the Wake County attorney who best exhibits the qualities of professionalism displayed by Joseph Branch, former chief justice of the N.C. Supreme Court.
"I had the privilege of knowing Chief Justice Branch," Eagles said. "Having had that experience and knowing the man for whom this award is named is truly a great honor, and I am humbled to be this year's recipient."
Eagles is a former chief judge of the N.C. Court of Appeals. He served on the appellate bench for 21 years and has been a member of Smith Moore Leatherwood's appellate litigation practice since 2004. He has served as an adjunct professor at Campbell Law School since the School opened in 1976. Eagles is teaching North Carolina Criminal Procedure during the 2008-09 academic year.
About Campbell Law School: Since its founding in 1976, the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University has developed lawyers who possess moral conviction, social compassion and professional competence, and who view the law as a calling to serve others and create a more just society. The School has been recognized by the American Bar Association (ABA) as having the nation’s top Professionalism Program and by the American Academy of Trial Lawyers for having the nation’s best Trial Advocacy Program. In 2008, the Law School’s Moot Court Program was ranked in the top ten nationally by the University of Houston’s Blakely Advocacy Institute among 196 ABA accredited law schools. Campbell Law boasts more than 3,000 alumni, including 2,000 who reside and work in North Carolina. For the past 20 years, Campbell Law’s record of success on the North Carolina bar exam is unsurpassed by any other North Carolina law school.
Media Contact: Ashley Arnold, 910.893.1812, arnold@law.campbell.edu
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