Craig Schauer
cschauer@dowlingfirm.com
Craig Schauer is a trusted litigator who advises and advocates for clients. He has been fortunate to counsel clients through a wide variety of disputes and legal problems, ranging from business disagreements, to regulatory battles, to constitutional lawsuits.
Craig has represented businesses of all sizes—from small partnerships to Fortune 100 corporations—in state and federal courts, arbitration proceedings, and various regulatory agencies with disputes regarding contractual relationships, constitutional rights, class actions, unfair competition claims, government regulations, defamation, and other commercial issues. He has worked with clients in a variety of sectors, including healthcare, construction, professional sports, nonprofit, franchises, energy, financial services, public utilities, and local and state government.
Craig's practice includes representing clients before the North Carolina Utilities Commission, as well as advising clients on political campaign and election law matters.
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Law Clerk to Associate Justice Paul M. Newby, Supreme Court of North Carolina, 2010-2011
Law Clerk to James C. Dever III, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina, 2011-2012
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Selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© in
Commercial Litigation (2021-2023)
Selected for Benchmark Litigation’s “40 & Under Hot List” (2020-2021)
Selected by his peers for inclusion in Business North Carolina “Legal Elite” in the Young Guns category (2019)
Recognized by North Carolina Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters) as a “Rising Star” in Civil Rights Law (2018); Business Litigation (2019-2020)
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Duke University School of Law, J.D., 2010, magna cum laude; Order of the Coif; Managing Editor of Law and Contemporary Problems, DeHoff/Arnold Endowed
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., 2005, with distinction, Chairman of Honor Court
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North Carolina
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts of North Carolina
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Member, State Judicial Council (2021-present)
Board of Directors, North Raleigh Young Life Committee (2019-present)
Ruling Elder, Midtown Community Church (2015-2019)
Board of Directors, Greater-Raleigh Young Life Committee (2011-2019)
Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism, Appointee (2023-present)