Counsel Carolina (Osborn Gambale Beckley & Budd PLLC) is a firm of award-winning Raleigh personal injury lawyers and trial attorneys fighting for the injured and underserved in North Carolina. Our team has recovered millions in damages for our clients and is committed to making good legal help more accessible, fair, and universal. Our injury trial attorneys in Raleigh bridge the obstacles that prevent regular, everyday people from getting the legal help they need and function as a community legal resource for the underserved and those left behind by traditional law firms. Though our team and experiences are diverse, our mission in clear: make the law work for everyone. Our Raleigh personal injury and wrongful death lawyers aren’t afraid to go to trial or take on powerful interests to get you the justice you deserve.

Joe Budd is a founding member of Counsel Carolina and leads the firm’s workers’ compensation practice. Joe uses his experience as a former insurance defense and workers’ comp defense lawyer to help clients who are injured on the job. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Joe was a staff member with the United States House Committee on Ways and Means in Washington, DC.

Originally from Fairfield County, Connecticut, Joe graduated from Wheaton College, Illinois with degrees in History and Economics and the University of Virginia School of Law. He is licensed to practice law in North Carolina. Joe recently celebrated his tenth wedding anniversary with his wife Emily and, together, they have three children. He is in a life-long love/hate relationship with the New York Mets and enjoys board games, science fiction, and history in his spare time.