We protect our clients' constitutional and civil rights. The firm's lawyers have handled cases involving free speech and free press rights of newspapers, radio stations, and student journalists; freedom of expression of recording artists and dancers; rights to privacy; the free exercise of religion, the establishment clause, and other First Amendment rights and privileges. We have also defended the civil rights of criminal defendants including death row inmates; the equal protection rights of citizens in vote apportionment disputes; rights to a sound basic education and medical treatment under the North Carolina constitution; and other crucial civil rights.