Renny
W. Deese is licensed to practice law in North Carolina. Mr. Deese is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina. He was admitted to practice in North Carolina in 1971, after
having graduated from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in 1986, and Wake Forest University School
of Law in 1971. After graduation, Mr. Deese served in the Judge Advocate Generals Corps until 1974 when he joined
his present law firm as an associate. Mr. Deese is now a partner in the law firm of Lewis, Deese
& Nance, L.L.P., and acts as its managing partner.
Mr.
Deese practices primarily in family law, and is a North Carolina State Bar board certified specialist in family law,
and a fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He has served as the Chairman of the North
Carolina State Bar family law specialization committee, and as a council member of the Family Law Section of the
North Carolina Bar Association. Currently he is serving as Councilor to the North Carolina State Bar for the Twelfth
Judicial District Bar.
Mr.
Deese has been a speaker at numerous continuing legal education seminars sponsored by the North Carolina Bar
Foundation and Wake Forest University School of Law. He has written and presented manuscripts on various family law
topics, including alimony and equitable distribution. Mr. Deese appears in the District and Superior Courts
throughout southeastern North Carolina, and regularly practices before the North Carolina Court of Appeals, and
Supreme Court of North Carolina.
Mr.
Deese is certified as an arbitrator by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and family and divorce mediator
(select).
Mr.
Deese authored "The Exempt Status of Cash Surrender - Value of Life Insurance in N.C.," 7 Wake Forest
Law Review 515, 1971.
