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Criminal Defense, Civil Litigation, Criminal Tax Defense
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Biography

Douglas Kingsbery is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and is the Past Chair of the North Carolina State Bar’s Criminal Law Specialty Committee that certifies all Criminal Law Specialists in the State of North Carolina.  He holds an undergraduate degree from Duke University in Political Science and Religion and a law degree from Duke University School of Law.  He has tried and won criminal jury trials in several counties across North Carolina as well as in the United States District Courts of North Carolina and has won criminal appeals in the North Carolina Court of Appeals, the North Carolina Supreme Court, and the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.  He has an extensive criminal tax defense practice, representing taxpayers against the Internal Revenue Service and the North Carolina Department of Revenue, and for several years, he has served on the faculty of the American Bar Association’s National Institute on Criminal Tax Fraud.

Mr. Kingsbery has been married to his wife Katie since 1979.  Together, they have raised three children, Russell, Kelsey and Web. The Kingsberys are active members of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (ELCA) where Doug has served as President of the Church Council and as a Stephen Minister.

Credentials

Duke University School of Law

  • Juris Doctor, 1980

Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts and Sciences

  • B.A., Political Science and Religion, 1977, cum laude

 

Membership and Admissions

  • North Carolina State Bar 1980
  • United States Supreme Court
  • Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
  • United States Tax Court
  • United States Federal Court of Claims
  • United States District Courts for the Eastern District of North Carolina
  • United States District Courts for the Middle District of North Carolina
  • United States District Courts for the Western District of North Carolina
  • United States Department of Treasury Internal Revenue Service
  • North Carolina Supreme Court
  • American Bar Association (Litigation Section)
  • North Carolina Bar Association (Litigation Section Member, Criminal Justice Section Member)
  • North Carolina Advocates for Justice
  • National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys
Experience
  • North Carolina State Bar, former Chairman of the Criminal Law Specialty Committee
  • The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Panelist, CJA appellate panel
  • State of North Carolina, Indigent Capital Murder Defense appointments

 

Certificates and Fellowships

  • North Carolina State Board of Legal Specialization, Board Certified Specialist in Federal Criminal Law, since 1991
  • North Carolina State Board of Legal Specialization, Board Certified Specialist in Federal Criminal Law, 1991-2002
  • Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America, since 2010
  • Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers, since 2018
Awards & Honors
  • Inducted into Fellowship of the American College of Trial Lawyers, 2018
  • Inducted into Fellowship of the Litigation Counsel of America, 2010 (AV®) Preeminent Peer Review Rated Lawyer by Martindale Hubbell
  • Listed in Best Lawyers in America®, Criminal Law Section, Commercial Litigation Section, and “Bet the Company” Litigation Section, since 2005
  • Listed in North Carolina Super Lawyers®, Criminal Law, 2006 – 2025
  • Listed in Business North Carolina’s “Legal Elite” in the field of Criminal Defense Board Certified Specialist in Federal Criminal Law, 2012 – 2014, 2017
  • Best Lawyers in America®, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense: White-Collar, 2021 – 2025

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