Anna N. Majestro

Anna Majestro represents clients in commercial litigation, product liability, and personal injury matters in trial and appellate courts across North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia. She combines precise legal analysis, strategic discovery, and persuasive advocacy to achieve successful outcomes. Her attention to detail enables her to handle complex briefing and manage intricate e-discovery in high-stakes litigation.

My Practices

• Trial counsel for international truck company in international arbitration where the panel returned a nearly $70,000,000 award that resulted in the largest collectible judgment in North Carolina history.
• Trial counsel for a domestic defense contractor in arbitration that resulted in an $11,000,000 settlement during the night before opening statements.
• Trial counsel for individual injured in a boat explosion resulting in a jury verdict and settlements of $5,169,307.30.
• Trial counsel for widow in wrongful death case resulting in settlement for $3,000,000 on the first day of trial.
• Trial counsel in winning defense verdict for major online auctioneer in claims based on misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract where the plaintiff alleged that the company gained more than $40,000,000 in profits.
• Counsel for manufacturing company in claims to prevent former head of operations and head of sales from using trade secrets to compete against client. Utilized forensic discovery to uncover the defendants’ ongoing violations of the court’s preliminary injunction and prevailed on two motions for sanctions that resulted default judgment in North Carolina Business Court. The Supreme Court of North Carolina affirmed on appeal.
• Counsel in winning summary judgment for tractor manufacturer in federal court on all remaining claims after winning a motion to dismiss on the majority of the claims originally asserted.
• Represented corporate shareholder against corporation in records dispute that resulted in order by the Business Court against the corporation in favor of shareholder client ordering production of records and payment of fees.
• Tried Section 1983 case to verdict in the Middle District of North Carolina as part of that District’s Pro Bono Representation Program
• Obtained successful result for the West Virginia Secretary of State in a high profile election law matter in the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.

Clerkships

Law Clerk to the Honorable John T. Copenhaver, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, (2016-2017)

Honors & Recognitions

Recognized in North Carolina Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters) as a “Rising Star” (2022, 2024-2025)

Recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Commercial Litigation (2025-2026)

Recognized by Business North Carolina’s “Legal Elite” in the “Young Guns” category (2025)

Education

Georgetown Law Center, J.D., 2016, cum laude; Senior Editor, Annual Survey on White Collar Crime for the American Criminal Law Review at Georgetown

West Virginia University, B.A., 2013

Admissions

North Carolina

South Carolina

West Virginia

North Carolina Business Court

South Carolina Supreme Court

West Virginia Supreme Court

West Virginia Court of Appeals

South Carolina Court of Appeals

North Carolina Court of Appeals

North Carolina Supreme Court

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4^th Circuit

U.S. District Court for the Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts of North Carolina

U.S. District Court for South Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia

Professional & Civic Activities

Mecklenburg County Bar Association Chair (2024-2025) and Vice Chair (2023-2024)

Mecklenburg County Volunteer Guardian Ad Litem