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Joe Thomas Knott, III
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| Practice Areas: |
Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice;
Federal Tort Claims; Torts. |
| Admitted: |
1980, North Carolina, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1989, U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina |
| Law School: |
University of North Carolina, J.D., 1980 |
| College: |
University of North Carolina, B.S., Business Administration, 1974; Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, M. Div., 1978 |
| Member: |
Wake County and North Carolina Bar Associations; North Carolina State Bar; North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers. |
| Biography: |
Assistant U.S. Attorney, 1981-1985, Chief of Civil Section, 1981-1983 and Criminal Prosecutor, 1983-1985, Eastern District of North Carolina. Member, Board of Directors: Southern Baptist Sunday School Board, 1984-1992; Board of Directors, Hale High School, 1989-. Chairman, 1998-2002 and Member, Board of Directors, 1994-2002, St. Timothy's Elementary School. |
| Born: |
Raleigh, North Carolina, July 25, 1951 |
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Bruce W. Berger
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Bruce joined Knott & Berger as a partner in 1997. Bruce began his practice in Charleston, West Virginia in 1980, where he primarily defended doctors, hospitals and insurance companies. He moved to Raleigh with his family in 1987 and continued his defense practice, until joining Knott & Berger, where he now represents injured persons in personal injury cases, primarily in the areas of medical malpractice, nursing home negligence and significant motor vehicle crashes. He also helps people in disputes with their insurance companies, primarily in property and casualty claims, including “bad faith” litigation.
Born in Beech Grove, Indiana and raised in Indianapolis, Bruce received his B.A. degree, cum laude, with honors, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and his law degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Berger is a regular speaker at continuing legal education seminars on various aspects of trial practice, ethics and personal injury litigation. He is a member of the Wake County and North Carolina Bar associations, the West Virginia State Bar, the North Carolina State Bar, the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
Bruce and his wife, Susanne, a registered nurse, have four children and live in Raleigh. Bruce’s interests include reading, photography, swimming, skiing and other outdoor activities. He is involved with various church-based and community organizations and coaches a local high school swim team. |
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Kenneth R. Murphy, III |
Ken came to Knott & Berger as an associate in 2004. Ken began his practice in 1999 with a firm in Durham, North Carolina, where he primarily defended medical malpractice claims brought against doctors and hospitals, as well as professional negligence claims brought against architects and construction engineers. Ken also spent two years serving as a law clerk to a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
Since coming to Knott & Berger in 2004, Ken has represented persons injured through the negligence of others in automobile accident, medical malpractice, and premises liability cases. Ken also regularly counsels clients on basic estate planning and estate administration issues and routinely drafts Wills, General Powers of Attorney, Health Care Powers of Attorney, and “Living Wills” for individuals and families.
Ken was born in Charlotte and grew up in Greensboro, upstate South Carolina, and Texas. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ken taught middle school social studies in Kinston, North Carolina, where he also coached basketball, football, and baseball. Ken then returned to Chapel Hill to earn his law degree, where he served as a student assistant with the UNC-CH School of Law’s Legal Research and Writing program and received the Gressman-Pollitt Award for excellence in oral advocacy.
Ken and his wife, Laurie, live in Raleigh and have two children. In addition to spending time with his family, Ken enjoys running, basketball, reading, and teaching his young sons to cheer for the Tar Heels. For the past six years, Ken has participated in a church-based tutoring program that works to improve the reading skills of young children in a local community.
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