Carol W. Exum

Carol is Of Counsel in Lynch & Eatman, L.L.P. Her practice is focused on estate planning and estate administration. She grew up in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and after graduating from UVA law school, she joined Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP (now Womble Bond Dickinson) in the business litigation practice group. While taking time off from the full-time practice of law to pursue family and volunteer activities, she taught first year legal research, writing and oral advocacy at UNC law school for three years as an adjunct professor, and she served children in foster care as a Guardian ad Litem for ten years. Prior to joining Lynch & Eatman, L.L.P., she worked as a consultant for Crenshaw Consulting Engineers, Inc.

• Of Counsel

• Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, L.L.P., Associate, 1995-2000
• UNC School of Law, Adjunct Professor of Law, 2008-2011
• Wake County Guardian ad Litem, 2007-2017
• Crenshaw Consulting Engineers, Inc., Consultant, 2019-2022

• Joel Lane Museum House
• Shepherd’s Table Soup Kitchen
• Race for the Cure
• Society of St. Andrews

• North Carolina, 1995
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of North Carolina, 1995
• U.S. District Court Middle District of North Carolina, 1995
• U.S. District Court Western District of North Carolina, 1995
• U.S. Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, 1999

• North Carolina Bar Association, Member
• North Carolina Bar Association, Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law Section
• Wake County Bar Association, Member
• Wake County Estate Planning Council, Member