Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP (CSH) recently named three new partners to the firm: Dan M. Hartzog, Jr. and Jennifer Morris Jones of Raleigh and Jason Toups of Wilmington.

“Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog is proud and excited to welcome Dan, Jennifer and Jason into our partnership,” said Dan Hartzog, managing partner of the firm.  “Being selected as a partner is a recognition of their individual skills and knowledge, commitment to client service and representing our firm both professionally and in the community.”

Dan M. Hartzog, Jr. has been practicing defense litigation in the Raleigh office of Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog since 2006, after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. In the course of this time, he has successfully handled matters in several areas, primarily focusing on employment law and municipal liability.

Jennifer Morris Jones has been a member of CSH’s Workers’ Compensation Practice Group since joining the firm in 2006.  She is a North Carolina Board Certified Workers’ Compensation Specialist, and her niche is her Form 24 practice.  This practice involves moving the Industrial Commission to terminate or suspend an employee’s weekly temporary total disability (TTD benefits) on an expedited basis without prolonged litigation.  She is a graduate of Salem College and Campbell Law School.

Jason Toups has been a member of CSH’s Workers’ Compensation Practice Group since joining the firm in 2007.  Jason represents clients at all stages of litigation before the North Carolina Industrial Commission including subrogation and other related civil litigation. He is a graduate of Louisiana State University and the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University.