RALEIGH — The Campbell Law Career and Professional Development Center will host its annual signature event for students and employers, Campbell Law Career Night, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 10, at the Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) in downtown Raleigh’s Warehouse District. The event is generously sponsored by Lawyers Mutual.
Campbell Law students will have the opportunity to meet attorneys from the broader legal community for an evening of networking and relationship building. Light refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be available.
“Representatives from a wide variety of legal employers including law firms, non-profits, government entities, corporations and judge’s chambers will be on hand to talk with students throughout the evening,” explained April Giancola, assistant dean of the Career Center. “And we are delighted to welcome as our special guest speaker Campbell Law alumnus G. Edward Story ’87, executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of RTI International.”
In addition to overseeing RTI’s legal affairs, Story’s responsibilities include ethics, enterprise risk, regulatory compliance and commercialization. He also leads the Technology Advancement and Commercialization business unit. Before undertaking the role of general counsel in 2008, he served as assistant general counsel and assistant corporate secretary and previously had varying levels of responsibility for the contracting and procurement organizations within RTI. Before joining RTI in 1990, Story was a private practice attorney in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Story is a member of various professional associations, including the Association of Corporate Counsel and the North Carolina and Wake County Bar Associations. He currently serves on the NCBA Corporate Counsel Section Council. He has been named among Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite, a list of the state’s top lawyers in business-related categories by Business North Carolina magazine for multiple years. He also received a Triangle Business Journal’s Corporate Counsel of the Year Award.
In addition, Story is a member of the Advisory Board for the North Carolina Science Festival, an initiative of Morehead Planetarium and Science Center. He previously served on the boards of the WakeMed Foundation and the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, including serving as board chair the Food Bank of CENC. He is also a recipient of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, one of North Carolina’s highest honors awarded to individuals for significant contributions to the state and their communities through their exemplary service and exceptional accomplishments.
ABOUT RTI INTERNATIONAL
RTI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition. Clients rely on us to answer questions that demand an objective and multidisciplinary approach — one that integrates expertise across the social and laboratory sciences, engineering and international development. We believe in the promise of science, and we are inspired every day to deliver on that promise for the good of people, communities and businesses around the world. For more information, visit www.rti.org.
ABOUT CAMPBELL LAW
Since its founding in 1976, Campbell Law has developed lawyers who possess moral conviction, social compassion, and professional competence, and who view the law as a calling to serve others. Among its accolades, the school has been recognized by the American Bar Association (ABA) as having the nation’s top Professionalism Program and by the American Academy of Trial Lawyers for having the nation’s best Trial Advocacy Program. Campbell Law boasts more than 4,700 alumni, who make their home in nearly all 50 states and beyond. In 2021, Campbell Law celebrated 45 years of graduating legal leaders and 12 years of being located in a state-of-the-art facility in the heart of North Carolina’s Capital City.