James Roane

James has spent most of his life in Greensboro. He graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1992. During his undergraduate years, James was a two-term president of Tau Kappa Epsilon and worked as a supervisor at UPS. He went on to earn his J.D. in 1999 from the Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston-Salem, NC. While in law school, James earned several honors including Most Outstanding Advocate from the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, was a regional winner on the National Trial Team as well as the Elite Eight in the National Competition in San Antonio, Texas which placed him among the top eight teams in the national competition. A few years after graduating from law school, James accepted a position as Director of Litigation with Crumley & Associates, the largest consumer-based law firm in North Carolina. During his tenure at Crumley & Associates, James led a team of four attorneys and five paralegals. Not only did he carry his own caseload, but he also trained and supervised these new litigation attorneys and staff. He left Crumley & Associates in April 2008 to pursue his dream of opening his own firm. Most injury law firms are made up of case managers, non-attorneys, who simply try to settle cases. If you get a reputation for just settling, then the insurance companies offer less. Of course, they do that as they are in the business of making money by paying out the least amount possible. Attorney Roane takes a different approach. Some law firms file suit on less than 10% of their cases. At Roane Law, we file suit on the vast majority of our cases. Once you get a defense lawyer and a litigation adjuster, you have a greater opportunity for a larger recovery. For more than 25 years, Attorney Roane has litigated cases in the Greensboro and Piedmont Triad area. In addition to running a successful law firm, James taught at Elon Law School for more than ten years. His responsibilities included instruction of foundational trial skills and advocacy to law students, a role he found fulfilling and one that challenged him to seek new approaches to this craft.