Fred B. Monroe - Lawyer in Charlotte, NC

As a trial lawyer in Charlotte, North Carolina for over 24 years, Fred focuses his civil litigation practice on representing individuals and companies involved in complex business disputes. Freds trial experience, when coupled with his educational background in the areas of finance and accounting, provide him with a distinctive ability to counsel clients on a wide range of litigation issues such as: derivative actions, dissolutions, waste of assets, minority shareholder rights, controlling shareholder obligations, dissenting shareholder rights, officers and directors liability, executive compensation, restrictive covenants, trade secrets, business valuation, financial products, and estates and trusts. In addition, Fred represents investors in arbitrations before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and is a member of the Public Investor Bar Arbitration Association (PIABA). As a first chair lawyer, Fred has successfully prosecuted and defended many cases in trials before judges, juries, and arbitration panels.

Fred hails from the eastern part of North Carolina with roots in the Moore and Montgomery County area. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 1991 as an English major. He subsequently attended Mercer Law School, graduating in 1996, where he was a member of the Mercer Law Review. After graduating from law school, Fred began his career at James, McElroy Diehl and subsequently, while actively practicing law, obtained an M.B.A., Finance, from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Fred became a shareholder in James, McElroy Diehl in 2006 and currently serves on its management committee.