Hendersonville, NC

Larry S. McDevitt

Larry McDevitt is a senior principal and Past President of The Van Winkle Law Firm. He has more than 47 years of experience in civil litigation in federal and state trial and appellate courts. He is also admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court. His trial practice places special emphasis on patent and trademark infringement and antitrust matters. A Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and International Society of Barristers, he has successfully pursued class-action suits against worldwide companies and handled numerous patent infringement cases from both the plaintiffs’ and defendants’ sides. In addition, his practice has included the representation of businesses in the utility, development, communication, and healthcare industries with respect to regulatory, employment, zoning, construction, and general corporate matters.

Dale A. Curriden

Dale A. Curriden is a principal with The Van Winkle Law Firm and has successfully tried numerous lawsuits to verdict. Since joining the firm in 1997, he has successfully defended physicians and medical practices against claims of negligence and professional malpractice and represented clients’ interests in matters concerning personal injury, wrongful death, property damage, workplace accidents, insurance coverage, commercial leases, employment, construction, and professional licensing. He regularly appears in Federal and North Carolina courts at the trial and appellate levels and in numerous administrative and licensing venues. He has also been a member of the Bar of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians since 2002, where he appears regularly at the trial and appellate levels and has successfully defended the Tribe’s sovereignty and other interests in claims involving personal injury, real property, and employment.

Robert B. Long, Jr.

Robert B. Long Jr. received his undergraduate degree in 1963 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He continued there for law school, receiving his L.L.B with honors in 1965, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Phi fraternity. Bob is a member of the North Carolina and American Bar Associations, the 28th Judicial District and North Carolina State Bars, and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Allan R. Tarleton

Allan is an Of Counsel attorney with the Van Winkle Law Firm. Allan has championed the cases of hundreds of people, non-profit organizations, and businesses, small and large since he came to Asheville and started practice in 1980. He has obtained significant verdicts, judgments, and arbitration awards in trials, hearings, and appeals in personal injury, workers’ compensation, wrongful death, contract, and product liability cases; he has successfully prosecuted claims arising under the North Carolina and the United States Constitutions; and he has proven time and again to be an effective negotiator before trial and, in many cases, before suit is even filed. Allan’s decades of experience analyzing insurance coverages, evidentiary issues, questions of procedure, statutes, regulations, and case law have often permitted his clients to realize favorable results in cases where there appeared to be no acceptable outcome. And his demonstrated competence as an effective and straightforward advocate has earned the respect of clients, juries, witnesses, adversaries, colleagues, and judges. In addition to his practice as a zealous attorney for his clients, Allan serves as the firm’s risk manager and compliance officer and maintains an active and expanding practice as a certified mediator in North Carolina Superior Court civil actions. Before earning his law degree in 1980, Allan was a staff writer and city editor for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Daily News in Washington, NC.

Stephen J. Grabenstein

Steve Grabenstein is a seasoned civil litigator with The Van Winkle Law Firm where he focuses his practice on will contests, business disputes, trust and estate disputes, wrongful death and personal injury claims and fiduciary related claims. As a talented litigator, Steve has handled numerous will caveat proceedings, complex commercial actions, wrongful death and personal injury suits, suits involving trusts and trustees, and fiduciary litigation. Grabenstein is also a certified mediator and in that role and as a member of arbitration panels has helped hundreds of individuals negotiate and settle a wide variety of cases. Grabenstein has also been trained in the collaborative law approach to resolving disputes outside of court.

Mark N. Morris

Mark Morris was voted Best Attorney of Rutherford County in the Daily Courier Readers’ Polls (2011 - 2023), and he also received the Avvo Client Choice Award. The American Institute of Family Law Attorneys has recognized Mark's exceptional performance with the award for 10 Best Family Law Attorney for Client Satisfaction in North Carolina. This is a high honor for Mark, because every client is important to him. Mark’s main areas of practice are family law, automobile accidents, criminal law, and general civil litigation. Mark’s family law experience includes extensive work in areas of child custody and support, marital property division, alimony, adoptions, domestic violence, separation agreements, pre-marital agreements, and divorce. Mark is an adept trial lawyer, with years of trial experience, including complex child custody trials lasting for many days. He understands that family law, and especially child custody cases, are some of the most important matters in his clients’ lives. This is why Mark fights for every client, while at the same time being compassionate and caring. In 2016, Mark was admitted as a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, which is for attorneys who acted as principal counsel in at least one case in which a verdict award or settlement in the (present value) amount of one million dollars or more was obtained. Mark cares about people injured in automobile accidents, and works hard to make sure his clients receive the compensation they deserve. Mark grew up in Los Angeles, California, where his father was a Los Angeles city attorney for over thirty years. Mark moved to Rutherford County, North Carolina, in 1990 and subsequently married his wife Holly Morris. In 2000, he graduated from Limestone College with a Bachelor of Arts in Education. In 2004, he graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law and was admitted to the North Carolina Bar that same year. He is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association and the Rutherford County Bar Association. Mark lives in Rutherford County with his wife and daughter, Elizabeth Morris.

Jonathan Dunlap

Jonathan Dunlap is a principal with the firm and he handles complex litigation matters in a variety of areas including healthcare, patent, construction, and employment law. He has handled appeals before the North and South Carolina appellate courts, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and has served as a consulting attorney on appeals before the Cherokee Supreme Court. He has trial experience in state, federal, and administrative venues. Jonathan is also experienced in representing medical practitioners before their various licensing boards. Originally from Florence, South Carolina, Jonathan began his practice in a leading Charleston, South Carolina defense firm. He then gained national experience handling claims in over 15 different jurisdictions as an in-house attorney for United Educators insurance company. Just prior to joining the Van Winkle Law Firm, Jonathan practiced at a nationally recognized medical malpractice defense firm in Raleigh, N.C. Jonathan is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association Appellate Rules Committee and is on the Buncombe County Bar’s Executive Committee. He is licensed to practice in the state and federal courts of North and South Carolina, the courts of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and the Fourth Circuit.