Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Financial Services Disputes and Investigations

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Office Managing Partner - Charlotte

Angelia is the managing partner of the firm’s Charlotte office. She is a commercial litigator whose practice focuses on a wide range of business and real estate disputes, and the advising of membership organizations. She also represents and advises on matters involving servicers and special servicers.

Angelia frequently litigates claims arising out of business and servicing relationships before state and federal courts across the country. She has also handled a vast array of property and construction-related disputes throughout Georgia and North Carolina, representing lenders, investors, property owners, and contractors in loan default, eminent domain, foreclosure, and issues related to nonpayment, defective construction and defective design for contractors, design-builders, subcontractors nationwide. Angelia serves as outside counsel to an international membership-based organization with over 80,000 members and advises on a variety of pre-litigation and active litigation matters in that capacity.

In addition to her role as managing partner, Angelia also serves as co-chair of BCLP’s Lawyers of Color Affinity Group and sits on the firm’s U.S. Women’s Leadership Board.

Outside of the firm, she is committed to pro bono work and serving the community. She has volunteered the Cobb Justice Foundation assisting victims of domestic violence in obtaining protective orders and the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation. In addition, Angelia previously served on the Corporate Board of Directors for the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Atlanta, Partnership Against Domestic Violence, and was a two-term member of the Mecklenburg Count Bar’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee in Charlotte.

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT & HONORS Wingate University, Board of Trustees Chair, Wake Forest School of Law Young Alumni Board University of North Carolina Alumni Committee on Racial and Ethnic Relations Order of the Golden Fleece, University of North Carolina PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys