Michael T. Brown, Jr.

Managing Partner

Helping others is what we are all called to do. I am blessed with the opportunity to help others every day. I take great pride in helping clients through their situations with a focus on returning them to some level of normalcy. I also take great pride in helping fellow Team members tackle problems that lay before them. I want everyone with whom I come into contact to know that they are never in their situations alone. We, the CR Legal Team family, are with them from start to finish and will do all we can to help.

Bio

As a skilled and caring attorney whose favorite things about CR Legal Team are the people with whom he works and the individuals they get to help every day, Mike Brown truly values helping people tackle any problems they may have to face. Mike grew up in Duplin County, North Carolina with his farming and small family business. He earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in both Political Science and History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his Juris Doctor from Campbell University’s School of Law. He joined the firm in 2003.

Mike and his wife Heidi have two children, and he enjoys spending time with his family, working in his yard and on his farm, and volunteering at his church. He is passionate about his faith, his family, and his community and does all he can to foster the faith of others. He believes in community and feels we all are stronger working together with each person pulling part of the load.

Education:

BA in Political Science, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BA in History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
JD, Campbell University School of Law

Bar Admissions and Memberships:

North Carolina State Bar
All North Carolina State Courts
U.S. District Courts for the Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina
American Bar Association
North Carolina Bar Association – Former Workers’ Compensation Board Member
North Carolina Advocates for Justice – Workers’ Compensation Section Member
18th Judicial District – North Carolina

Awards and Honours:

Board Certified Specialist in Workers’ Compensation by the North Carolina State Bar – 2013
Super Lawyers Rising Star – 2012

Education

Bar Admissions
and Memberships

North Carolina – 2003
- All North Carolina State Courts
- U.S. District Courts for the Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina
Super Lawyers Rising Star – 2012
Board Certified Specialist in Workers’ Compensation by the North Carolina State Bar – 2013
North Carolina State Bar
North Carolina Bar Association – Former Workers’ Compensation Board Member
North Carolina Advocates for Justice – Workers’ Compensation Section Member
American Bar Association
18^th Judicial District – North Carolina

The Personal Injury Lawyers

Who'd Rather You Never Need Them

Kimberly and I met in 1992 as kindred spirits, both drawn to the idea of building something larger than ourselves—an extension of our family committed to serving others. We married in 1994, while I was practicing law, and Kimberly worked in healthcare consulting. We thought we understood how the legal system worked. Then September 19, 1995 changed everything.

It’s the worst possible situation to be in after a serious injury. I’m sitting across from a guy who’s supposed to be one of the better traumatic brain injury lawyers, but I’m realizing he doesn’t understand what Kimberly and I are going through!

I got hit by a tractor-trailer just two months before. My wife Kimberly—nineteen weeks pregnant with our first child—has had to watch me deal with personality changes, possible lifelong symptoms, and terrifying fears of our family's future.

What makes it all worse is the fact that I am a lawyer with years of experience, and yet even I can’t get the kind of representation we desperately need. It’s a scary situation.

I grew up in Charlotte. My mother was a teacher, my father a manager working with blue-collar contractors. My parents instilled in me a simple principle: stand up for people who can’t stand up for themselves. Becoming an Eagle Scout reinforced it.

Kimberly grew up in Rockingham, a small North Carolina community. Her parents, a nurse and a salesman, also instilled the importance of community service. Sunday mornings singing in youth prison ministry, working with rehabilitation centers, partnering with local organizations – all part of Kimberly’s youth and what shaped her heart.

My brain injury accident showed us that even being on the inside of the legal profession didn’t protect us from getting poor representation. Our lawyer didn’t really serve us well because he couldn’t put himself in our shoes.

After my personal injury, I knew exactly what kind of lawyer I wanted to be:

someone who truly understands what clients are going through because I've been there myself. Kimberly joined me, bringing her healthcare background and passion for wellness. We built our practice around a simple idea—we don't just handle your case, we understand your whole journey, and we prepare you for it.

Today we’ve been in business for 35 years and we’ve recovered billions of dollars for our clients, but more importantly, we’ve advanced our services to what we call “whole person legal care.” We don’t just fight for financial recovery—we address the physical, emotional, and mental needs that make up a whole person. We prepare people before accidents happen through safety education. We stand beside them during their recovery. And we help them figure out where to go when their time with us is done.

What drives us is knowing that if you know better, you have to do better. Through our Roberts Center, we give away thousands of bicycle helmets, teach CPR, provide scholarships, and run safety programs in schools because we’d rather prevent accidents happening to your family than litigate them.