Cranfill Sumner LLP today announced that Shannon Murphy has joined the firm’s Raleigh office as an associate attorney. She focuses her practice in the Administrative, Regulatory & Government Law, and White Collar, Government Investigation & Special Matters practice groups.
Before joining the firm, she clerked for the Honorable Terrence W. Boyle in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Additionally, she served as an Attorney for the United States Department of Justice, Attorney General’s Honors Program, where she briefed and argued cases in U.S. Courts of Appeals nationwide. While in law school, she also interned for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Justice, and Office of the Virginia Attorney General.
She graduated from William & Mary Law School, where she was a member of the school’s Appellate and Supreme Court Clinic, Moot Court team, and Environmental Law and Policy Review.
She received her bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from the University of Kentucky.
