Our strong relationships with new and long-time clients in North and South Carolina depend on strict adherence to our firm's core values: experience; responsiveness; and efficiency.

There is no substitute for the diverse and extensive trial experience that informs the advice and direction we can provide to guide our clients through the treacherous litigation landscape.

Our firm's trial experience rivals that of any law firm in the Southeast. We've earned our reputation as a top litigation defense firm through our accomplishments in the courtroom. For more than 50 years, Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo, L.L.P. has built a strong tradition of representing business and industry.

North Carolina offices in Charlotte, Raleigh, and Wilmington, and a South Carolina office in Columbia make Hedrick Gardner one of the largest litigation and dispute management firms in the Carolinas.

In litigation, time really is money.  Because of this, prompt and thorough responsiveness to our clients is paramount at Hedrick Gardner.  We are here to answer questions and provide status updates as needed, and are ready to comply with the wide variety of reporting requirements our clients expect.  We pride ourselves on being flexible and available to meet our clients' needs, utilizing a wide array of the latest in telephonic, electronic and video communications technology.

At Hedrick Gardner, we concentrate our efforts in five key practice areas. While others sometimes dilute their efforts by spreading into a wide variety of specialties, we at Hedrick Gardner focus our efforts, constantly seeking ways to improve efficiency, to save our clients time and money.

We also capitalize on one of our other core values, experience, by sharing knowledge to create efficiencies and share best practices in mediations, trial preparation, expert witness selection and case strategy development throughout the firm. When faced with legal problems that need effective and creative solutions, our clients know that we have the experience, technology and reservoir of knowledge to efficiently achieve the client's desired outcome.