PERSONNEL FILE: Spilman's Winston-Salem office expands

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- The law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle has announced that Stephanie U. Roberts has joined the Winston-Salem office as counsel.

Her primary area of practice is litigation with an emphasis on toxic tort, chemical exposure, construction defect and product liability litigation.

Roberts has 14 years of experience practicing law and profound familiarity handling class actions, mass tort litigation, multi-district litigation, and complex, document-intensive matters. She is admitted to practice in North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida.

Roberts is a member of the Defense Research Institute, American Bar Association Litigation and Construction Sections, North Carolina Bar Association, Forsyth County Bar Association, Forsyth County Women Attorneys Association and South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association. She has been a mentor for University of Florida Law School mentoring program since 2002.

She is peer-review rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell. AV Preeminent is the highest rating available through Martindale-Hubbell and indicates that Roberts is considered by her peers to exhibit the highest level of professional excellence.

Spilman Thomas & Battle is a full-service law firm with more than 130 attorneys. Founded in 1864, Spilman has offices in Charleston, Morgantown and Wheeling, W.Va.; Mechanicsburg and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Winston-Salem, N.C.; and Roanoke, Va.

For more information, visit www.spilmanlaw.com.