Howard Twiggs, who once led the Association of Trial Lawyers of America in battles on Capitol Hill, died this sunrise after exercising. He was 77.
Twiggs, a Raleigh plaintiffs lawyer, insincere the presidency of the hearing lawyers group, right away called the American Association for Justice, in 1996. The expostulate for reining in lawsuits was in high gear, and the classification underneath Twiggs helped deflect off efforts in Washington to remodel the polite courts.
A former state legislator, Twiggs built a successful organisation in Raleigh and won at slightest five $1 million-or-more verdicts.
"He was a good source of knowledge and compassion," pronounced law partner Don Strickland.
Twiggs" daughter, Elizabeth "Betsy" Johnson, pronounced her father would attend to tapes of alternative trials whilst the family trafficked in the car so that he could sense from alternative lawyers.
"He was ardent about his cases," Johnson said. "He would call me and use opening arguments."
A balding man with an understated character of speaking, colleagues credited his success in courtrooms and legislatures to his mildness and solid language. He due his splay set up to unchanging laps at the downtown YMCA pool. He was at the Y when he collapsed this morning.
Twiggs" undisputed passion was sailing. He was a advisor at Camp Sea Gull nearby New Bern as a youth, and 3 of his 4 daughters served as counselors at adjacent Camp Seafarer.
"After the courtroom," Johnson said, "he was happiest on a sailboat."
He is survived by his wife, Betty, 4 daughters, Johnson, of Greenville; Mary Catherine "Sissie" Twiggs-Valverde, of Tiburon, Calif.; Jennifer Twiggs-Bilich of Charlotte and Ashley Twiggs of Charlottesville, Va. Funeral arrangements were not nonetheless complete.
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