Company

Overview

At our offices in North Carolina, we combine the varied backgrounds and expertise of dedicated attorneys and staff to provide clients with effective and efficient legal advice and representation throughout the State of North Carolina. Our clients range from individuals and privately held family and/or closely held businesses to corporations with national distribution and business associations.

We have attorneys practicing in commercial creditors rights and commercial collections, construction law, business law and planning, civil litigation, alternate dispute resolution, and estate planning to meet the needs of North Carolina’s private and business communities. Helping you meet your personal and business goals is the focus of our firm as a whole and of each individual attorney and staff member. We get to know our clients on a personal level and strive to build long-term relationships in order to provide quick, sound legal advice and representation for long-term planning.

Our attorneys and staff are active in many aspects of the community, actively lobbying to improve state and national laws, speaking at group meetings, attempting to enhance our community through programs such as the Y’s We Build People program, “Race for the Cure” and North Carolina State Games “Be Active Challenge”. As a group or as individuals our staff strive to participate in various community outreach and charitable programs. In addition, our attorneys attend continuing legal education seminars and frequently advance their knowledge as laws change due to legislation or court interpretation. As well-rounded members of the community, our attorneys and staff bring to our firm a sense of caring and teamwork, which we incorporate into our practice.

History

After practicing briefly with a small Raleigh law firm, James Vann began his own law practice as a sole practitioner in 1993. Paul Sheridan joined the firm in 1996, and in 1997 a partnership was formed and the firm name became Vann & Sheridan, LLP. The partners head up a 18-member staff of attorneys, paralegals and support staff. The firm concentrates in the areas of commercial creditors rights and commercial collections, business disputes and negotiations. The firm also represents clients in the areas of construction law, business law and planning, and civil litigation.

A majority of the firms practice is in the area of commercial collections. Vann & Sheridan, LLP represents a number of commercial suppliers of building products within the construction industry. “When our clients need our help collecting money from general contractors for supplies delivered, we work with our client and the debtor in determining how the money can be repaid and what options and alternatives are available. We are willing to persevere on our clients behalf, be creative! Our clients know that and appreciate the extra effort,” says Vann.

When speaking at seminars conducted by professional trade associations throughout the United States, both James Vann and Paul Sheridan have been able to educate their membership, and in turn, many clients in the complex nature of commercial collections, construction law, contract law and general business law. For the employees of several of the firms larger clients with national distribution, the attorneys teach seminars in, among other issues, collections, creditors rights, e-commerce purchase and contract law, payment bond claims and lien law. The North Carolina Bar Association and other groups have called upon the firm to lead sessions of the Continuing Legal Education in general construction law, commercial collections, creditors rights and bankruptcy law within the construction industry as well.

“We help our clients understand that if they protect themselves from the beginning, it makes it much easier to collect money later on,” adds Sheridan. “We review contracts and try to be very proactive in addressing our clients collection problems.”

Both partners, as well as one other attorney in the firm, are certified mediators. “Through our mediation experience, we’ve learned to be better advocates for our clients,” Sheridan says. “The mediation process is invaluable.”

The attorneys of Vann & Sheridan, LLP use their business sense and economic know-how to help clients on general business issues such as contract formation, asset purchases and employment matters. It is all part of the umbrella of services that the firm offers their various clients which include individuals, privately held family businesses and corporations with national and international distribution.

“Helping our clients meet their personal and business goals is the focus of our firm as a whole, and of each individual attorney and staff member,” Vann says. “We get to know our clients on a personal level and strive to build long-term relationships in order to provide quick, sound legal advice and representation for long-term planning.”

“We build a partnership with our clients,” adds Sheridan. “They’ve come to know what to expect from us. We value the relationships we have built with them.”

Clients

Vann & Sheridan, LLP, Attorneys at Law stands ready to meet the diverse needs of clients ranging from individuals to privately held family businesses to corporations with national distribution. The firm represents clients throughout North Carolina and the United States.

Careers

Vann & Sheridan, LLP employs individuals who embrace strong work ethics, a dedicated and unceasing drive and desire to serve our clients and their legal needs and individuals who exhibit strong moral, business and ethical standards.

Please send all inquiries, including cover letter and resumé, to our office via email: info@vannattorneys.com.

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