Dan Deuterman Honored For Legal, Community Impact

Deuterman Law Group Founder and President is one of 24 Triad Impact Leaders in Law

(Greensboro, N.C., August 14, 2008) –Daniel L. Deuterman, a Greensboro attorney who is committed to helping injured workers while also improving his community, has been selected as one of the Triad Impact Leaders in Law by Business Leader Media.

Deuterman and 23 other attorneys from the Triad will be featured in the August issue of Business Leader magazine. These winners were chosen based on the impact they have made in their industry and in their community.

“I’m a firm believer that success should be measured in the amount of good you do,” Deuterman said. “That belief guides me professionally as I advocate for injured workers other injured people, and it also has motivated me to become involved in volunteer work. At the Deuterman Law Group, we all care about improving the community in which we and our clients live. That’s an important part of our identity as individuals and as a law firm.

“I’m honored to be recognized by Business Leader for the impact I’ve made professionally and personally."

A board certified specialist in workers’ compensation law, Deuterman is deeply committed to community service and volunteer work. He supports a number of charities and community organizations through gifts of his time, expertise and financial contributions. He also believes that everyone, regardless of their ability to pay, deserves legal representation and the justice that it brings. He supports the 4ALL campaign of the N.C. Bar Association, which aims to end injustice by providing the poor and needy better access to the legal system.

Deuterman’s own pro bono work earned him honors earlier this year from the N.C. Bar Association and Business Leader Media. He won an Impact Pro Bono Award for work he and his firm did on behalf of the family of Jennifer Nielsen, the pregnant newspaper carrier who was murdered last summer in Raleigh.

Nielsen’s murder remains unsolved.

Initially, Nielsen’s employer denied her family death benefits under the state’s workers’ compensation law, arguing that she was an independent contractor and therefore not entitled to benefits. Deuterman helped negotiate a settlement for the future support of Nielsen’s other two children, who were just 3 years old and 10 months old at the time of her death.

In addition to his pro bono work, Deuterman supports a variety of charities and community groups, including New Garden Friends School, the March of Dimes and Kids’ Chance of North Carolina, a scholarship program for teens whose parent has been killed or seriously injured in a workplace accident.
Deuterman and his wife, Dawne, also endowed the Daniel Lyndon and Dawne Talbert Deuterman Scholarship, which is awarded annually to a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law.

The law firm has been recognized several times over as one of the best place to work in the state because of its family-friendly policies, unique benefits and employee-appreciation practices that make the Deuterman Law Group stand out among other employers.