Maria M. Lynch

Maria's practice is focused on estate planning, estate administration and exempt organization planning. Maria is Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and is a Board Certified Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law. She served as president of the Tenth Judicial District bar in 2018. Maria was elected by the members of the Tenth Judicial District Bar to the maximum three consecutive terms as a North Carolina State Bar Councilor from 1993 to 2001. She is a past member of the North Carolina Bar Association Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law Section Council and the past chair of its Ethics Committee. She is a past Chair of the Estate Planning and Probate Law Specialty Committee, North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. In 2017 she received Joseph Branch Professionalism award from the Wake County Bar Association. Maria was an adjunct professor for many years at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill School of Law and has been a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke University School of Law. She received her B.A. with high honors from the University of Tennessee and her J.D. with honors from UNC - Chapel Hill. Maria is a frequent speaker on estate planning and ethics issues. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Maria M. Lynch included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Business NC Legal Elite Hall of Fame Tax and Estate Planning, 2011 – Present Business NC Legal Elite Tax and Estate Planning, 2004 - 2011 Best Lawyers in America Tax and Estate Planning, 1991 - 2017 North Carolina Super Lawyers, 2006 - 2017 Sarah H. Davis Excellence Award in Recognition of Outstanding Leadership as a Board Certified Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law, 2006 - Present John B. McMillan Distinguished Service Award Joseph Branch Professionalism Award from the Wake County Bar Association, 2017 - Present Distinguished Service Award from the North Carolina Bar Association's Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law Section, 2023 Other Sources of Feedback About Maria M. Lynch Included on the 2023North Carolina Super Lawyers list Past Lists 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 2008 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2007 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2006 North Carolina Super Lawyers list

• Partner

• Hon. J. Dickson Phillips, Jr., U.S. Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Law Clerk, 1979 - 1980
• Languages
• English

• Wills, Trusts and Estates, University of North Carolina School of Law, 2005 – 2007, 2017, 2018, 2019
• Wills, Trusts and Estates, Duke University School of Law, 2007 - Present
• Why We Love Private Foundation: North Carolina Bar Association, 2017
• How to Negotiate a Fiduciary Litigation Case: North Carolina Bar Association, 2013

• North Carolina, 1979
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of North Carolina, 1980
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1980
• U.S. Tax Court, 1981
• Specialties and Certifications
• Board Certified Specialist, Estate Planning and Probate Law, North Carolina State Board of Legal Specialization

• North Carolina Bar Association, 1980 - Present (Member)
• American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, 1995 - Present (Fellow)
• North Carolina Bar Association Estate Planning Fiduciary Law Section, 2010 - 2016 (Council Member)
• North Carolina Bar Association Estate Planning Fiduciary Law Section, 2007 - 2011 (Chair, Ethics Committee)
• Estate Planning and Probate Law Specialty Committee North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization (Past Chair)
• Wake County Bar Association Board of Directors, 2011 - 2014 (Director)
• 10th Judicial District Grievance Committee, 2010 - 2011 (Chair)
• North Carolina State Bar, 1993 - 2001 (Councilor)
• Tenth Judicial District Bar, - 2018 (President)