Cranfill Sumner LLP today announced that Christina Zaroulis Milnor, Charlie Raphun, and Chad Rhoades have been named partners in the firm.
“Christina, Charlie, and Chad are excellent leaders in our firm and exceptional attorneys in their fields. We are proud to recognize their achievements and welcome them as our firm’s newest partners,” said Marshall Wall, Managing Partner of Cranfill Sumner.
Christina Zaroulis Milnor is based in the Cranfill Sumner Washington, DC office and is a member of Mincey Bell Milnor, an affiliate boutique group of Cranfill Sumner. She previously served for more than a decade as senior staff at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She is a passionate advocate to financial-industry clients in high-stakes investigative and litigation matters. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and Harvard College.
Charlie Raphun is based in the firm’s Raleigh office and is a commercial and technology law attorney, with more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He provides transactional services and pragmatic counsel to businesses and individual clients, and he is similarly skilled at developing and implementing compliance programs, processes for managing intellectual property portfolios, litigation, and risk management systems. He received a law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law, a master’s degree from the U.S. Army War College, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida.
Chad Rhoades is based in the Cranfill Sumner Raleigh office and is a member of Mincey Bell Milnor. He is an experienced litigator with extensive policy and political experience at both the federal and state level across multiple branches of government. Prior to joining Cranfill Sumner, he was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, served as Chief Counsel to United States Senator Thom Tillis, and worked in state government at the North Carolina General Assembly. He is a graduate of Campbell Law School and North Carolina State University.
