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The firm carries the highest rating from Martindale-Hubbell and is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. 
Manning & Crouch, with practice limited to criminal defense matters, was founded in 1995 by Thomas C. Manning following an eighteen-year career as federal judicial law clerk, federal prosecutor, and criminal defense specialist with a prominent general practice law firm. James A. Crouch joined the firm in 1997 after serving for several years as trial counsel with North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services. The firm's practice is exclusively criminal defense, handling criminal cases and other criminal matters ranging from complex federal grand jury and trial matters in white-collar and controlled substances cases, to homicide and other violent felonies, domestic and sexual assaults, fraud and controlled substances cases, and traffic offenses such as Driving While Impaired, Revoked License and other serious misdemeanors. Both members are active in Bar matters. Thomas C. Manning is a frequent CLE lecturer and has served as an officer in a variety of local and statewide legal organizations. The firm carries the highest rating from Martindale-Hubbell and is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.