Allison Overbay Van Laningham

• Hankins Scholar (undergraduate)
• Law Alumni Scholar
• Order of the Coif
• Articles Editor, Wake Forest Law Review
• Wake Forest Moot Court Board

• Selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2010 (Copyright 2007 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.), Appellate Law, First Amendment Law, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation 2009 - 2010
• Martindale-Hubbell's top ("AV") Peer Review Rating *
• Selected by Law & Politics Magazine for inclusion in North Carolina Super Lawyers, Civil Litigation Defense, 2006-2009, and as one of the "Top 50 Women" attorneys in North Carolina, 2007, 2008
• Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference (2007 attendee)
• Andrew C. Hecker Award (2008), given by the Federation of Defense and Coporate Counsel for the year's most outstanding FDCC Quarterly article 
• Triad Business Journal's 40 Leaders Under Forty (2005), awarded to the Triad's outstanding young business and community leaders
• Chairperson of Litigation Section Council, North Carolina Bar Association
• Secretary of Constitutional Rights and Responsibilities Section Council, North Carolina Bar Association
• Chairperson of Appellate Law Section, Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel
• Chairperson (2002-2004) and immediate past chairperson and Steering Committee member (2004-07), SynerG (a group dedicated to inspiring Greensboro's future by connecting the next generation of leaders and encouraging creation of a city environment attractive to young talent)
• Past Chairperson of North Carolina State Bar's Liaison Committee to the Administrative Offices of the Courts
• Wake Forest University Board of Trustees 1991-92

* CV, BV, and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedure's standards and policies.

• Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel
• Middle District of North Carolina, Local Rules Committee
• Appellate Rules Committee, North Carolina Bar Association
• Joseph Branch Inn of Court (2008-present) 
• Guilford Inn of Court (2000-06)
• North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys
• Defense Research Institute
• American Bar Association Council of Appellate Lawyers
• DRI Appellate Advocacy Committee

• Clerkship, Judge Susan H. Black, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 1997-1998
• Clerkship, Judge N. Carlton Tilley, Jr., U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina, 1996-1997

• The Trap of Motions in Limine (or Why You Should Not Believe Everything You Read, Even in the Rules of Evidence), The Litigator, the official publication of the Litigation Section, Vol. 29, No. 1 (September 2008)
• Navigating in the Brave New World of E-Discovery:  Ethics, Sanctions and Spoliation, Vol. 57, No. 4, FDCC Quarterly 327 (Summer 2007)
• Superseding and Staying Judgments in North Carolina (published in Superseding and Staying Judgments: A National Compendium (Roger D. Townsend, ed. 2007))
• Damages in Defamation Per Se Actions: Presumptions Are Not What They Used To Be, The Constitutionalist, the official Publication of the Constitutional Rights & Responsibilities Section, Volume II Number 4 (April 2006)
• Co-author, Fourth Circuit section of "MLRC 50-State Survey: Media Privacy and Related Law" (2003 - 2009)
• Cobb v. Sports Illustrated:  Actual Malice Requires More Than Negligence - March 13, 2002
• "Sour Grape Lawsuits:  Defamation in Political Advertisements" - January 1, 2001
• Co-author, Insurance Regulation of Providers That Bear Risk, American Journal of Law & Medicine, Vol. 22

• Cross Examination of an Economic Expert, Trial Tips from the Trenches CLE (2009)
• Ethics on Appeal, Advanced Litigation Strategies for Trial and Beyond:  Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Coming Out on Top CLE (2008)
• Ethical Issues and E-Discovery CLE (2008)
• Legal Malpractice and the Civil Defense Lawyer, Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel CLE (2008)
• Navigating in the Brave New World of E-Discovery:  Ethics, Sanctions and Spoliation, Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel CLE (2007)
• E-Litigation:  Surviving and Thriving in Today's Electronic Environment, CLE Course Planner, April 2007
• North Carolina and Foreign Judgments, Enforcement of Judgments CLE, January 2007
• Comparing Richmond to Raleigh, State and Federal Appellate Practice CLE, February 2005
• Annual seminars on libel and related issues for media clients
• The Fundamentals of Non-Competition Agreements, Women in Law for Women in Business Seminar