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Name
Louise C. Root
City
Weaverville, NC
Phone
828-645-7080
County
Buncombe
Email
lcr@rootandroot.com
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Summary of Workers Comp Experience
While I presently practice with my husband in a small town ten miles north of Asheville both my husband and I were shareholders in what was then Roberts, Stevens & Cogburn, a firm with approximately twenty-five lawyers. We left that firm to begin our own firm in Weaverville and have been practicing together ever since.
Up until the time I left Roberts, Stevens & Cogburn, my practice was exclusively defense work. Since starting a small firm in a small town, I have also begun to do some plaintiff's work in addition to my defense work. This plaintiff's practice has gradually increased to the point that I estimate it now comprises approximately twenty-five percent of my practice.
In 1997 and 1998, I participated in fifty to sixty mediations. In 1997, approximately ninety percent of these mediations involved representation of defendants. In 1998, approximately eighty percent of the mediations in which I participated involved defense representations. Since mid-1999, I annually handle approximately the same number of mediations as in the prior years; however, the representation of defendants at mediations is only slightly greater than my representation of plaintiffs. I will mediate cases in the following counties: Buncombe, Burke, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Jackson, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford and Yancey.
Rep. Employees %
30
Rep. Employers %
70
Status
A 1
KEY TO MEDIATOR STATUS:
An "a" indicates that the mediator is on the IC appointed list; a "c" indicates that the mediator is not on the IC appointed list but has asked to be included in the published list of mediators interested in mediating IC cases; a "sel" indicates that the mediator is not on either of these lists but has been selected by the parties to mediate IC cases previously; and
a number in the status field indicates
that number of hours a mediator is generally willing to travel each way to mediate IC cases without charging any additional fee for travel.
Hours One Way
1
Hrly. Med. Fee
$150
Admin. Fee
$150
Canc. Chg.
per the rules
Travel Exp.
Att. for party in comp cases