Samantha Duncan

Samantha earned her undergraduate degrees in Political Science and Criminology from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She first started her career working with domestic violence victims at the Brunswick County District Attorney’s Office. She then went on to graduate from Campbell University’s Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, where she was active in the Re-Entry Project, the Campbell Law Innocence Project, and the Death Row Visitation Project, the Restorative Justice Clinic, and the Campbell Community Law Clinic.

 

While in law school, Samantha worked for the Raleigh-Apex NAACP, the Wake County Family Court for Judge Michael Denning, the criminal defense branch of Kurtz & Blum, PLLC, and she prosecuted cases at the Johnston County District Attorney’s Office.

 

Since working at Hopler, Wilms, & Hanna, PLLC, Samantha has maintained several practice areas until settling in the practice area of forced judicial sales of real property. Samantha litigates Petitions to Sell Real Property out of estates and guardianships along with Petitions to Partition. In addition to litigating issues involving forced judicial sales of real property, Samantha regularly serves as an attorney Guardian ad Litem for Unknown Heirs in on-going estate and property tax foreclosures as well as in incompetency matters before the clerk.

 

While she is not practicing law, Samantha enjoys spending time with her french bulldog, Walt, and going to the gym for strength training and doing pilates.