Cranfill Sumner LLP today announced that Kristen Harris has joined the firm’s Raleigh office as Of Counsel. She focuses her practice in professional liability, products liability, premises liability, construction law, and business litigation.
Harris has represented individuals, businesses, and corporations in state and federal courts. She has extensive trial and dispute resolution experience, having successfully tried cases to verdict across North Carolina and obtained favorable outcomes for her clients at mediations and arbitrations.
She spent more than a decade as a non-partisan legislative analyst and staff attorney at the North Carolina General Assembly where she provided legal guidance to all 170 members of the legislature and staffed numerous Senate and House committees.
Prior to entering the legal field, she completed the Radcliffe Publishing Course in Cambridge, Mass., and worked in the publishing industry in New York City.
She earned her law degree from Wake Forest University and her bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
