Stephen C. Rhudy

After more than 25 years in private practice, most of it at Walker Lambe, Steve Rhudy's principal practice endeavors are in estate planning, estate, gift and income tax planning, charitable gift planning, and estate and trust administration. He also assists clients with business and intellectual property transactions, and provides legal counsel to not-for-profit organizations. Prior to joining Walker Lambe, Steve practiced in Raleigh and in Research Triangle Park. Steve had also served for several years as a lecturer at N. C. State, teaching classes in Business, Agricultural and Environmental Law.

Steve's background as an educator inevitably informs his approach to his work. Steve believes that a key part of his role as legal advisor is not only to understand where his clients have come from, and where they might seem to be going, but also to provide them with enough legal and practical education to allow them to make thoughtful and well-informed decisions.

When the athletic and music activity agendas of his teenage daughters permit, Steve enjoys retreat to the family cabin at Rhudy Hill, built on a piece of his great grandfather's farm in the Highlands of Southwest Virginia.

Although he was raised and educated in upstate New York, Steve has lived in North Carolina most of his life and his wife is a North Carolina native.