Lawyers in North Carolina: 90 cities with ranked practice areas (2026)
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90 North Carolina cities have at least one ranked practice area list. Apex has the most ranked practice areas in the state, with 16.
North Carolina cities with the most ranked practice areas
Ordered by the number of practice areas with a ranked list. Each city page shows the top 3 in every practice area.
| City | Ranked practice areas | Law firms listed |
|---|---|---|
| Apex | 16 | 25 |
| Charlotte | 15 | 907 |
| Raleigh | 15 | 849 |
| Greensboro | 15 | 362 |
| Durham | 15 | 260 |
| Winston-Salem | 15 | 256 |
| Cary | 15 | 133 |
| Chapel Hill | 15 | 99 |
| Gastonia | 15 | 87 |
| High Point | 15 | 81 |
| Concord | 15 | 80 |
| Hendersonville | 15 | 71 |
| Monroe | 15 | 68 |
| Mooresville | 15 | 61 |
| Statesville | 15 | 59 |
| Cornelius | 15 | 55 |
| Wake Forest | 15 | 55 |
| Salisbury | 15 | 52 |
| Smithfield | 15 | 49 |
| Burlington | 15 | 43 |
Lawyers in North Carolina by practice area
Each state list ranks the top law firms and links every city list for the practice area.
- Social Security disability lawyers90 cities
- General practice lawyers90 cities
- Insurance lawyers90 cities
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- Bankruptcy lawyers89 cities
- Criminal defense lawyers89 cities
- Employment lawyers89 cities
- Divorce and family lawyers86 cities
- Estate planning and probate lawyers86 cities
- Real estate lawyers85 cities
- Immigration lawyers75 cities
- Intellectual property lawyers72 cities
- Mediators66 cities
- Tax lawyers66 cities
- Business lawyers61 cities
- DUI and DWI lawyers1 city
All 90 North Carolina cities with ranked practice areas
A to Z, with the number of ranked practice areas in each.
B
- Belmont 15
- Boone 11
- Burlington 15
E
- Eden 13
- Elizabeth City 10
- Elon 15
F
- Fayetteville 11
- Fort Bragg 12
- Fuquay-Varina 15
G
- Garner 15
- Gastonia 15
- Goldsboro 12
- Graham 15
- Greensboro 15
- Greenville 12
H
- Harrisburg 15
- Havelock 10
- Henderson 12
- Hendersonville 15
- Hickory 14
- High Point 15
- Holly Springs 15
- Hope Mills 10
- Huntersville 15
I
- Indian Trail 15
J
- Jacksonville 11
K
- Kannapolis 15
- Kernersville 15
- Kings Mountain 15
- Kinston 12
- Knightdale 15
L
- Laurinburg 7
- Leland 13
- Lenoir 11
- Lewisville 14
- Lexington 15
- Lincolnton 15
- Lumberton 8
M
- Masonboro 13
- Matthews 15
- Mebane 15
- Mint Hill 15
- Monroe 15
- Mooresville 15
- Morganton 10
- Morrisville 15
- Mount Airy 12
- Mount Holly 15
- Murraysville 13
P
- Pinehurst 10
- Piney Green 11
R
- Raleigh 15
- Reidsville 15
- Roanoke Rapids 4
- Rocky Mount 11
S
- Salisbury 15
- Sanford 14
- Shelby 15
- Smithfield 15
- Southern Pines 11
- Spring Lake 12
- Stallings 15
- Statesville 15
- Summerfield 15
T
- Tarboro 10
- Thomasville 15
W
- Wake Forest 15
- Waxhaw 15
- Weddington 15
- West Raleigh 15
- Wilmington 13
- Wilson 13
- Winston-Salem 15
How North Carolina lawyers are ranked
Every city list scores the law firms that serve that city on one LFR Score, from 0 to 100.
A city appears here once at least one practice area has 5 or more law firms that qualify to rank.
Rankings can’t be bought. Attorney advertising law firms are labelled, never numbered and never change a rank.