Matthew Bryant is a partner with Hendrick Bryant & Nerhood Law Firm in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, focusing on real estate and business law. Bryant was the lead attorney in the successful landmark North Carolina property rights case Kirby v. NCDOT, which ultimately concluded in 580 settlements for clients across North Carolina.
Opinion
With 580th case settled, NC land owners can finally move on from the MAP Act
Often at the end of something, one thinks about how it began. For me and my partners Paul Hendrick and Tim Nerhood, that “something” is 15 years of litigation against the North Carolina Department of Transportation over the Map Act — the law that allowed the NC DOT to reserve land for highways without paying for...