Law firm Moore & Van Allen has hired former North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Willis Whichard, the firm said Friday.

Whichard, the only person in North Carolina history to serve in both houses of the state legislature and on both of the state's appellate courts, will practice litigation, with an emphasis on appellate litigation, at Moore & Van Allen.

Whichard practiced for 14 years with Powe Porter Alphin and Whitchard, which later merged with Moore & Van Allen. He served in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1970 to 1974 and in the North Carolina Senate from 1974 to 1980. In 1980, he was appointed by Gov. Jim Hunt to the North Carolina Court of Appeals, and in 1986 he became a justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court.

Whichard retired from the bench in 1998 and served as dean of the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University from 1999 through 2006.

Charlotte-based Moore & Van Allen has 265 attorneys in offices in Charlotte and Durham and in Charleston, S.C. The firm has 40 Triangle attorneys.

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