Michael J. Hoefling

Litigation can be difficult, expensive, and stressful. I do everything possible to be responsive and communicate openly about the intellectual, factual, and procedural aspects of a client’s case. They can count on me to be both their best thinker and fighter.

Michael Hoefling is a commercial litigator with broad experience, varied clients, and an emphasis on business, construction, and employment disputes. While practicing for over a decade, Michael has represented contractors, executives, home builders, physician groups, churches, property developers, trustees, personal representatives, healthcare companies, manufacturers, motorsports teams and athletes, banks, commercial landlords and tenants, and a number of individuals and corporations. Such representation leads him to serve his clients within state and federal court as well as North Carolina’s business court and private arbitration proceedings. His focus is on serving his client’s goals through effective advocacy and communication. He has provided strategic advice to company executives, in-house counsel, and has served as local counsel for companies throughout the country on various matters. His representative work includes, among other things, assisting clients in obtaining emergency restraining orders in the context of employment covenants; asserting and defending against business torts, breaches of contract, fraud, and other conduct in violation of North Carolina’s Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act; navigating the various issues in construction defect claims and related multiparty litigation; recovering assets and amounts owed on behalf of banks and other creditors; and, advising clients on contract negotiation and other business matters prior to and outside of the context of litigation. Michael is known for being comprehensive and pragmatic and takes seriously his role as both counselor and advocate. He serves as a lawyer liaison to the law firm’s network of affiliated international law firms known as Meritas.