The Raleigh law firm of Tharrington Smith LLP is pleased to announce that Russell D. Babb has been selected to serve on the Grievance Committee of the 10th Judicial District Bar in Wake County. The 10th Judicial District Bar is a quasi-judicial governmental entity with a mandatory membership of lawyers practicing within its district. The Grievance Committee is tasked with initial investigation of complaints against its lawyer members by the public. The findings of this committee serve as recommendations to the State Bar as to whether probable cause exists that the Rules of Professional Conduct have been violated by a lawyer.

Russell Babb is a 1996 graduate of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar, and a 1999 graduate of the UNC School of Law. He enjoys Fellowship in the American Bar Foundation, is an AV Preeminent Peer Rated Lawyer at Martindale Hubbell, and is listed in Best Lawyers in America’s Criminal Defense General Practice Section and Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite. He has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Wake County Bar Association and its Strategic Planning Committee.

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