Cranfill Sumner LLP today announced the addition of three new attorneys, Rebecca Blinzler, Carolyn Calder, and Will Reagan, to its staff.

Rebecca Blinzler joins the Charlotte office as an associate attorney focusing in business and employment law. While in law school she served as a Comments Editor for the North Carolina Law Review Journal, was selected as an Honors Writing Scholar, and clerked for the Supreme Court of North Carolina. She is a former college soccer athlete who also spent a year teaching English in Thailand. She received her law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and spent a year studying international business at the University of Edinburgh.

Carolyn Calder has joined the firm’s Raleigh office as an associate attorney focusing in civil litigation. Before attending law school, she spent four years working in the federal government sector, including working on two political campaigns and as a staffer in the U.S. House of Representatives for North Carolina’s 6th Congressional District. During law school, she served as the Executive Editor of the First Amendment Law Review, a student attorney for the Civil Legal Assistance Clinic, and as a member of the Broun National Trial Team. She received her law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her bachelor’s degree from the College of William & Mary.

Will Reagan joins the Cranfill Sumner Wilmington office and will work in the Administrative, Regulatory & Government Law and White Collar, Government Investigations & Special Matters practice groups.  He previously clerked at the North Carolina Supreme Court, interned in general civil litigation practice areas, served as both a Civil Procedure research assistant and a Pretrial Litigation scholar in law school, and served as an editor of the Campbell Law Review. He is a graduate of Campbell Law School and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.