Joslin Davis, a principal of Davis & Harwell, P.A., is a specialist in family law whose practice consists primarily of complex equitable distribution cases involving business issues. Ms. Davis is rated AV by Martindale Hubbell and has been named in Woodward/White, Inc.’s. THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA for more than a decade and in Law & Politics’s 100 top SUPER LAWYERS in North Carolina. Ms. Davis practices primarily in Winston-Salem and Charlotte, North Carolina.

Ms. Davis has extensive trial experience and has been a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates for 15 years. She has held faculty positions with the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers Trial Advocacy Clinic as well as the ABA Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute. She is currently an adjunct professor of family law at Wake Forest University Law School and has been for the past seven years.

Ms. Davis graduated from Wake Forest University Law School in 1977 where she served on the Law Review staff. Ms. Davis was a state prosecutor before forming the law firm of Davis & Harwell, P.A., with Fred Harwell in 1980, when she began a career in matrimonial law. Ms. Davis is licensed in North Carolina, Florida, the District of Columbia, the federal courts, and the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1989, the North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization certified Ms. Davis as a specialist in family law.

Ms. Davis is a member of numerous bar and trial organizations. Ms. Davis was appointed to membership in the American College of Family Trial Lawyers, a select group of only 100 lawyers nationally. Ms. Davis served as chair of the Family Law Council of the North Carolina Bar Association and served on the Board of Governors of the North Carolina Bar Association and the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers. Ms. Davis has been a member of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (“AAML”) since 1993 and has served as chair of various committees. She is currently serving as a Vice President of the AAML. She is a past president of the North Carolina Chapter of the AAML.

Ms. Davis has been a speaker and course planner on numerous occasions over the past 29 years in matrimonial law and trial law. She has written extensively on these topics and has published numerous manuscripts. Ms. Davis has also held many civic positions, including serving on the Wake Forest University Law Board of Visitors and the Law Alumni Council.