T. Paul Hendrick

T. Paul Hendrick was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He was admitted to the bar of North Carolina in 1973. He is also admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court, and he is a permanent member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference. Mr. Hendrick attended Pfeiffer College and received a B.A. in 1970. He was a Babcock Scholar at Wake Forest University School of Law and graduated in 1973. At Wake Forest, Mr. Hendrick was Justice of the Timberlake Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta in 1973. Timberlake Chapter was voted the most outstanding Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta in the United States in 1973. Mr. Hendrick was also an editor of the Wake Forest Law Review and authored "The Burden of Establishing Signature, Defenses, and Due Course", 8 Wake Forest Law Review 119, and "Constitutionality of North Carolina Statute Concerning Possessory Liens On Personal Property" , 9 Wake Forest Law Review 97. The Law Review Comment challenged the constitutionality of North Carolina's statutory lien law. In 1975, Chapter 44 of North Carolina General Statutes was ruled unconstitutional.

Mr. Hendrick served as a law clerk to Judge Hiram H. Ward, U.S. District Judge, the Middle District of North Carolina, from 1973 until 1975. Mr. Hendrick has been practicing law in Winston-Salem, North Carolina since 1975. He served as a clinical adjunct professor at Wake Forest University School of Law from 1982 until 1984. Mr. Hendrick is a member of the Forsyth County, North Carolina and American Bar Associations. Among various business and commercial clients, Mr. Hendrick also serves as general counsel to the ECHL, present in sixteen states with 28 teams. He is currently the chairman of the Sports and Entertainment Committee of the North Carolina Bar Association. He is also the general counsel for two national independent professional baseball leagues: the Can-Am League and the American Association. Mr. Hendrick specializes in the representation of business clients, serving a broad gamut of commercial counseling and representation needs.