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, Jr. 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.
  
  
• 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.
   
  
• Lisa M. Many is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A. Psychology). She has over 10 years of legal experience ranging from immigration, estate planning and intellectual property. She has also served as a copyright specialist, helping negotiate contracts with composers, registering musical pieces with the copyright office and issuing and processing royalty contracts and copyright licenses. Her work with the firm focuses on trademarks, copyrights and licensing matters. Ms. Many is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association's Legal Assistants Division.
   
• Erin A. Rall is a graduate of Brown University (B.A., Middle Eastern Studies). 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.