Bartina Edwards

Bartina Edwards is a business-minded attorney, entrepreneur, and advocate whose work focuses on employment law, collaborative dispute resolution, and social justice. She played an instrumental role in helping enact North Carolina's Uniform Collaborative Law Act and is a founding member of the North Carolina Collaborative Law Association. She is also a member of the Global Collaborative Law Council and a founding partner of the consulting firm CP3 Paradigm.

Bartina is admitted to the North Carolina State Bar and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of North Carolina. She has appeared before the North Carolina Court of Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Her professional leadership includes serving as Chair-Elect of the North Carolina Bar Association Labor & Employment Law Council and Immediate Past Chair of the Mecklenburg County Bar Employment Law Section. She previously served on the Board of Governors of North Carolina Advocates for Justice and taught Employment Law and the Workplace as an adjunct professor at North Carolina Central University School of Law for four years.