Martinez, Alexandra

John was born on June 13, 1962 in Wilmington, N.C. John maintains a broad civil litigation practice with emphasis on estate and trust, commercial, and business litigation. He also maintains a mediation practice.

John earned his undergraduate degree in business administration from Campbell University in 1984 and his law degree (magna cum laude) from the Campbell University School of Law in 1989.

John is a member of the North Carolina State Bar and is admitted to practice in all courts in North Carolina. He is certified by the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission as a mediator. John currently serves the North Carolina State Bar as the chair of the Eighth Judicial District Bar Candidate Committee. He is a member of the Litigation, Business Law, and Dispute Resolution Sections of the North Carolina Bar Association. He served on the council for the Business Law Section from 2008 to 2011.

John has been active in the community. He is immediate past President of the Board of Trustees of Arendell Parrott Academy. He continues to serve on their Executive Committee and Board of Trustees. John currently serves on the Board of the Kinston-Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce and on the Lenoir County Transportation Committee.

John is past President of the Lenoir Committee of 100 and the Kinston Country Club. John has served on the boards of the Lenoir County Committee of 100, the Lenoir County United Way, the Kinston Noon Rotary Club, Lenoir Community Council for the Arts, and the Foundation for the Renewal of Eastern North Carolina.

A born competitor, John attended college on a golf scholarship. He has finished as high as third in the North Carolina Amateur Championship and has frequently played in Carolina Golf Association events.

In recent cases/transactions of note:

• John represented a private waste disposal company in a contractual dispute with a much larger competitor over a former employee and alleged violations of a covenant not to compete.
• Represented a real estate developer in a litigation regarding a dispute with its vendor regarding misrepresentations made by the vendor during the transaction and damages suffered as a result.
• Represented a golf course development against the contractor who built the golf course in litigation over the defective construction of certain aspects of the golf course.
• Represented a minority shareholder in a closely held corporation in the North Carolina Business Court where the minority shareholder sought to be paid fair value for her shares after being frozen out and removed from the board of directors and as an officer of the corporation.
• Represented trustee of a testamentary trust in estate litigation to determine the nature and extent of his obligations where the trustee was unable to fulfill his obligations by virtue of the assets remaining in the trust.
• Represented a former legislator in defense of a defamation action brought by a political opponent which resulted in a dismissal being taken by the Plaintiff and the payment of legal fees to his client.