Maria M. Lynch

Maria's practice is focused on estate planning, estate administration and exempt organization planning. Maria is Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and is a Board Certified Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law. She served as president of the Tenth Judicial District bar in 2018. Maria was elected by the members of the Tenth Judicial District Bar to the maximum three consecutive terms as a North Carolina State Bar Councilor from 1993 to 2001. She is a past member of the North Carolina Bar Association Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law Section Council and the past chair of its Ethics Committee. She is a past Chair of the Estate Planning and Probate Law Specialty Committee, North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. In 2017 she received Joseph Branch Professionalism award from the Wake County Bar Association.

Maria was an adjunct professor for many years at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill School of Law and has been a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke University School of Law. She received her B.A. with high honors from the University of Tennessee and her J.D. with honors from UNC - Chapel Hill. Maria is a frequent speaker on estate planning and ethics issues.