THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, July 9, 1994 TAG: 9407090248
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: RICHMOND LENGTH: Short : 33 lines
A retired associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court will design a new pre-hearing conference program for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Harry C. Martin has been appointed senior pre-argument conference attorney for the Richmond-based appeals court.
Goals of the conference program are to initiate settlement negotiations between counsel and to simplify and reduce appellate issues. Martin's duties will include exploring whether appeals may be settled between parties before oral argument.
``His 16 years in the active general practice of the law and mediation, together with his three decades of experiences on the trial, appellate and supreme courts of North Carolina, uniquely qualify him for this position,'' said Chief Judge Sam J. Ervin III of North Carolina.
The program will be administered from the federal courthouse in Durham, N.C., with support from staff at the court's headquarters in Richmond.
Martin is a native of Lenoir, N.C., and received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1948, he graduated from the Harvard Law School and began practicing law in Asheville, N.C. by CNB