Ed Gaskins

After more than 50 years, Ed is still excited to practice the profession he loves. He does so because it's intellectually challenging, satisfies both his competitive nature and his joy in collaborative teamwork with his colleagues, and is consistent with his desire to help others. He is known for his professionalism and passion for mentoring young lawyers. When Ed started his practice, lawyers in Wake County for the most part were generalists not specialists. Thus Ed was in the courtroom in criminal and civil cases, including family law, commercial disputes, and personal injury as well as administrative hearings in federal contract claims, before the Utilities Commission and occupational licensing boards. He has appeared at the trial and appellate level in both state and federal courts. He has handled transactional matters and contract negotiation, including commercial and residential closings, and has served as general counsel to a bank, residential and commercial developers, a country club and homeowners associations. He has been involved in toxic mold litigation involving serious personal injury for 30 years. Indeed, there are few attorneys practicing law in North Carolina today who can bring to bear on their clients' opportunities and problems the breadth and depth of knowledge and experience which Ed possesses. This experience over 50 years of diverse practice makes Ed the firm's ultimate problem solver whose advice and guidance is sought and respected by clients and fellow attorneys alike. In recent years Ed has concentrated his practice in business problem solving and civil trial practice, primarily involving business-related disputes, but also toxic mold and serious personal injury in federal and state courts at both the trial and appellate level. Clients (as well as opposing counsel) who have dealt with Ed have described him as being like a friendly bulldog: easy and pleasant to deal with but when necessary he bites hard and never gives up. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Ed Gaskins included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors WCBA Joseph Branch Professionalism Award, 2004 NCBA General Practice Hall of Fame, 2012 North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Hall of Fame, 2018 Best Lawyers in America (2020 Wake County Best Lawyers in Appellate Practice), 2001 - 2003 AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism, 2008 - 2010 Other Sources of Feedback About Ed Gaskins Included on the 2026North Carolina Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2025 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2024 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2023 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2022 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2021 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2020 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2018 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2017 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2016 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2015 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2014 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2013 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2012 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2011 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2010 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2009 North Carolina Super Lawyers list

• Partner, Chairman

• Sanford & Cannon Law Firm, Associate & Partner, 1968 - 1990
• U.S. Army, Captain, Military Intelligence, 1966 - 1968

• The Ethics of Mentoring, Campbell Law School, 2017 - 2022
• Everything you want to know about Mold, Legal Aid of NC, 2019
• Strategic Planning for Law Firms, NC Bar Foundation, 2001
• Developing Teamwork with Highly Independent, NC School of Management, 1995
• Total Quality Management for Law Firms, NC Bar Foundation, 1993

• Crawford v. Mintz
• Citation: 362 N.C. 666,669, S.E. 2d 738 (2008)
• Court: NC Sup.
• Serial Number: 47A08
• Mitchell v. Brewer
• Citation: 254 N.C. App. 706, 803, S.E. 2d 433 (2017)
• Court: NC Crt Appeals
• Serial Number: No. COA 16-1122
• Village Square v. GTT Corporation
• Citation: 2020 WL 4057478
• Court: Bus. Ct. Wake Co.
• Serial Number: 18 CVS 7368
• In re Appeal of Oxford University Press, Inc & Oxford University
• Court: NC Prop Tax Commission
• Serial Number: 09 PTC 322

• Mentor, Campbell Law School "Connections," 2013 - Present
• Legal Aid, Lawyers on the Line. 1990 - Present
• Legal Aid of NC, Board of Directors
• BarCARES, Board of Directors
• Hayes Barton Baptist Church
• Chair of the Chamber of Commerce Education Committee
• Wake County Interfaith Council

• North Carolina, 1966
• District of Columbia, 1979
• U.S. Federal Courts, 1968
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1983
• U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 1981
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of North Carolina
• U.S. District Court Middle District of North Carolina
• U.S. District Court Western District of North Carolina
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
• U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia
• District of Columbia Court of Appeals

• North Carolina Bar Association (Board of Governors' Chair, Senior Lawyers Division, 2017 - 2018)
• Wake County Bar Association (President, 2009 - 2010)
• Wake County Bar Association, Professionalism Committee
• American Bar Association, Standing Committee on Professionalism
• North Carolina Associates for Justice
• American Associates for Justice
• Craven-Everett American Inn of Court (Founding Master and President)
• North Carolina Commission on the Administration of Law and Justice
• Chief Justices Commission on Professionalism
• North Carolina Commission on the Delivery of Legal Services
• Fraternities and Sororities
• Sigma Chi