Vickey Merlin, NCCP, Brooks Pierce Photo

Vickey S. Merlin, NCCP

Paralegal

Overview

Vickey Merlin has over 35 years of experience as a paralegal. She has significant experience in all phases of complex litigation and management of document intensive cases. She works closely with attorneys in providing assistance with document review, legal research, and assists with document production and maintaining documents on Relativity, a litigation case management database.

She has extensive experience with discovery, maintains exhibits for depositions and hearings and trial preparation. She is proficient with the procedures for managing cases in Superior Court, Business Court and the Court of Appeals.

She also is experienced in insurance defense matters, bankruptcy cases, including filings with the Bankruptcy Court and drafting Proof of Claims, medical malpractice, product liability, and construction law.

Credentials

Education

Appalachian State University, B.A., in Political Science

Certifications

North Carolina Certified Paralegal, 2005-present

Professional & Civic

Professional & Civic Activities

Member, Paralegal Division, North Carolina Bar Association

18

18 years of being a Brooks Pierce Paralegal team player. I thrive on being a part of a case, working hard for my attorneys towards a win for our clients.
3

3 years living in Battery Park Manhattan, NY as Paralegal Supervisor at Morgan Lewis, one of the largest law firms in the U.S.
11

11 years of research on Ancestry.com. Recently located my 2nd great-grandfather who was a Union soldier from TN in Civil War. He was captured September 1864 and taken to Confederate Cahaba prison and released at the end of the war.