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500 Memorial Street
Post Office Box 2049
Durham, NC 27702
Phone: 919.683.5514
Fax: 919.688.3781 |
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Paralegal Staff
Olive & Olive is proud to have a highly-qualified
team of professionals, who collectively have worked at
our firm for over fifty years, assisting our attorneys.
- Joseph T. Blackley is a graduate of Durham Industrial
Education Center (A.D., Drafting and Design
Technology) and of Durham Technical Institute
(A.A.S., Paralegal Technology, high honors). In
addition to his paralegal work in all areas of the
firm’s practice, with a focus on patents, he is
the firm’s chief draftsman and supervises the
technical drawings required for the firm’s patent
and trademark applications and litigation, and also
serves as the firm’s Assistant Administrator. He
is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association’s
Legal Assistants Division and is certified by the
North Carolina State Bar Board of Paralegal
Certification.
- Annette Crossan is a graduate of Katharine Gibbs
School and attended The City College of New York.
Ms. Crossan worked in the intellectual property
field in New York City for six years before moving
to Durham, North Carolina and joining the firm. Her
work focuses on trademarks, copyrights, and
licensing matters. Ms. Crossan is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Legal Assistants Division.
- Stephanie A. Durham is a graduate of
Howard University (B.A., Communications and Culture
with a concentration in Legal Communication
Studies). Before relocating to North Carolina Ms.
Durham worked as a paralegal for a Washington, D.C.
law firm and at the United States Department of
Justice, Consumer Litigation section. She served as
a Court Appointed Special Advocate from 2003-2005,
and was the Debate Team Coach for Eastern Senior
High School during her college years. Ms. Durham's
focus is in the area of intellectual property
litigation.
- Erin A. Rall attended the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro and Brown University. She has
worked with the firm for several years primarily in
the areas of litigation and legal research. Ms. Rall is a member of the North Carolina
Bar Association’s Legal Assistants Division, and
an associate member of the North Carolina
Association of Women Attorneys and of the North
Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, and is certified
by the North Carolina State Bar Board of Paralegal
Certification.
- Candace E. White is a graduate of the
University of Maryland, College Park (B.A., Art
History), and of Georgetown University (Legal
Assistant Certificate). Ms. White has more than 10
years of experience working as an intellectual
property paralegal in the areas of Domestic and
International Patent and Trademark Prosecution and
Litigation. Prior to relocating to North Carolina
she worked as a deputized Courtroom Clerk in
Worcester County Circuit Court. Ms. White's focus is
in the area of patent administration and
prosecution.
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