Troy D. Shelton

Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP

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Troy works alongside trial counsel, collaborating on critical motions to ensure that clients are well positioned on appeal. Once a judgment is entered, clients rely on Troy either to defend their judgment or find creative paths to reversal.

Troy has a wide variety of trial and appellate experience, including in class actions, antitrust, employment disputes, land use litigation and family law cases. He also frequently litigates commercial disputes in federal and North Carolina Business courts. In addition, Troy serves as a class action consultant to attorneys inside and outside the firm, for both plaintiffs and defendants. 

Troy frequently represents clients in precedent-setting cases. For example, in 2021, he persuaded the Supreme Court of North Carolina to unanimously recognize that children have a right, under the state constitution, to a learning environment free from abuse. Before then, lower courts had for a decade refused to recognize such a right.

Troy is a contributing author to the North Carolina Appellate Practice Blog, which provides news, information and tips for practicing law in North Carolina’s State and Federal Appellate Courts.

Prior to joining Fox, Troy worked as an associate at a boutique litigation firm. Before that, he was a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder of the Middle District of North Carolina.

During law school, Troy was an intern to the Honorable Justice Mark Martin of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. He also interned with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolina and externed with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina. In addition, Troy served as the North Carolina Law Review's articles editor.

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