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Richard Forrest Kern

Kern provides services to clients mainly on family law issues. He has also served clients in the areas of estate planning, adoptions, appeals, and partitions of real property. Kern is also interested in the areas of land use/zoning laws and was published in that area of law in 2007.

Kern graduated from Albany Law School in upstate New York in 2008 with a juris doctorate degree. He earned his B.A. in Political Science from The University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2005 and, in 2003, earned an A.A. in Political Science from Cape Fear Community College. Prior to becoming an attorney, Kern worked as a professional musician, an audio engineer, and in the movie industry.

While in law school, Kern interned in the chambers of the Honorable John M. Tyson at the North Carolina Court of Appeals, worked at the Government Law Center in Albany, New York (New York's preeminent legal and policy research center and the oldest government law center in the United States according to their Web site) under the direction of Professor Patricia E. Salkin, Associate Dean and full-time Director of the Government Law Center, and also interned at Rice Law, PLLC.

Kern was born in a small upstate New York town known as Warrensburg in 1975 but considers himself a North Carolinian and loves living and working in North Carolina. He is the oldest of four siblings. His parents—who are still together after over 36 years—and his siblings have all lived in Wilmington since his father moved the family here from Rockford, Illinois, to continue his engineering work at the Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant in 1985.

Bar Admissions

• North Carolina, 2009

Education

• J.D., 2008
  Albany Law School, Albany, NY
• B.A., Political Science, 2005
  UNC - Wilmington, Wilmington, NC
• A.A., Political Science, 2003
  Cape Fear Community College, Wilmington, NC

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