Stephen W. Coles

Stephen W. Coles is a Member in the Greensboro, N.C., office, where he works with the firm’s Business litigation practice group.

Coles, who has more than 20 years of experience in business and commercial litigation, has been listed in Best Lawyers in America for civil litigation and has been rated a North Carolina “Super Lawyer” in commercial litigation.

Mr. Coles has been lead counsel in over 200 medical related lawsuits and represented medical providers in cases involving transplants, blood transfusions, bone marrow harvestings and medical devices.  He has defended physicians practicing in all the major specialties.  He has tried over 100 jury trials primarily in the fields of medical injury, product defects, insurance coverage and contracts.  He has been a school board attorney for over 20 years.

He earned his undergraduate and law degrees from Wake Forest University. Coles is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the International Association of Defense Counsel, Defense Research and Trial Lawyers Association and the National School Boards Association of School Attorneys.  He has served as President of the Wake Forest Alumni Association, Director of the Wake Forest University Athletic Board, Director of the NC Museum of Art, and was a member of the City of Lexington’s Strategic Planning Commission.  He currently serves as Director on the Brenner’s Children’s Home Hospital Advisory Board and the Lexington Dispatch Empty Stocking Fund.

Additionally, he is currently serving on the North Carolina Bar Association’s Tort Reform Task Force and Board of Directors of the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys.  He is a former President of Carolina Legal Services, Inc. 

• Stephen Coles Joins Nexsen Pruet's Litigation Practice Group
  Stephen W. Coles has joined Nexsen Pruet as a Member (partner) in the Greensboro, N.C., office, where he will work with the firm’s Business litigation practice group.