An attorney with entrepreneurial and business consulting experience, and a bench behind him.

David P. Sheehan is the founder and managing attorney of the Law Offices of David P. Sheehan, PLLC, a Charlotte-based firm that has grown into what his career had been building toward all along: a multi-sector, full-service legal and business consulting practice.

Mr. Sheehan grew up on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and attended East Carolina University, where he graduated at the top of his class in finance. He began his career at Merrill Lynch and then with a private equity group, complementing his finance degree with hands-on experience in portfolio management and in public and private funding, learning how capital is raised, priced, and deployed before he ever set foot in a courtroom. He went on to earn his Juris Doctor from Whittier Law School in California, where he attended as a Dean’s Merit Scholar and completed the three-year program early.

Admitted to the Virginia State Bar in 2006 and the North Carolina State Bar in 2008, Mr. Sheehan opened the Law Offices of David P. Sheehan, PLLC in Charlotte in 2008 after appearing in over 19 Circuit and District Courts, including the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia. Over the years that followed, he built a broad trial and transactional practice, litigating hundreds of matters and earning membership in the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. That courtroom foundation still informs everything the firm does, but it was the beginning of the story, not the point of it. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

In 2014, Mr. Sheehan shifted his focus to entrepreneurship in the then-emerging cannabis industry. Over the following years he founded and built multiple licensed entities (serving as developer, operator, and chief legal officer of his own ventures), raised capital at successive valuations, and ultimately structured an eight-figure exit. Along the way, he consulted for companies at every stage of growth, including clients who went from startup to IPO and are currently operating within the industry’s mature growth phase as Private and Public Multi-State Operators.

As principal of REO Consulting, LLC, Mr. Sheehan was engaged by companies across virtually every vertical of the cannabis market: construction, construction management, cultivation, manufacturing and laboratory operations, processing, distribution, and retail. He managed a portfolio of assets for the largest Cannabis REIT whose investors included BlackRock. That work ran from forensic financial audits and management restructuring through licensing, compliance, development, and disposition, reporting directly to ownership groups, boards, and institutional investors.

The firm is now built on that accumulation of experience: formal training in finance, years as an entrepreneur inside the capital markets, two decades of law practice, and the firsthand building, operating, and exiting of his own companies. The Law Offices of David P. Sheehan, PLLC, known now as DPS Law, has recently transitioned into a full-service law office and business consulting firm, one that advises clients on what the law allows, how to efficiently build and alter clients’ business models, assistance with scale, raising capital, and exit strategies.

Today, Mr. Sheehan concentrates his practice on business law, business consulting, and emerging markets, with particular depth in the peptide industry across all of its channels (manufacturers and laboratories, physicians and clinics, and management services organizations, including designing MSO structures from the ground up), through telehealth platforms, capital raises, and roll-ups. He is also an equity holder and serves on the board of directors of a peptide company.

The firm’s bench reflects the same multi-sector reach: Of Counsel attorneys in complementary practice areas alongside CPAs, financial planners, politicians available for consulting, digital-strategy professionals, and AI business operations consultants, all coordinated by Mr. Sheehan as a single point of contact. Mr. Sheehan is admitted to practice in North Carolina and Virginia, but his practice and consulting span nationwide as many of his clients operate throughout the United States.

Scott R. Forbes is Of Counsel to DPS Law (the Law Offices of David P. Sheehan, PLLC) and the appointed County Attorney for Anson County. He trained in political science and government, earned his J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law, and has spent more than two decades in North Carolina courtrooms. His practice runs two tracks at equal depth: criminal defense, with hundreds of cases and trial experience in District and Superior Courts across the state, and personal injury, where he worked more than a thousand cases at Mills & Levine and Ted A. Greve & Associates: seven-figure settlements and verdicts among them, including an eleven-million-dollar settlement. As County Attorney he guides Anson County in all facets, from civil rights matters to industrial development. He leads Scott Forbes Law in Wadesboro, serving Anson and Union counties and the greater Charlotte region. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Scott R. Forbes serves as Of Counsel to DPS Law (the Law Offices of David P. Sheehan, PLLC) where he anchors the firm’s litigation bench in criminal defense, personal injury, and local government law. A courtroom lawyer in the oldest sense of the word, Mr. Forbes has spent his career in front of North Carolina judges and juries, and he serves as the appointed County Attorney for Anson County.

Mr. Forbes built his foundation in political science and government before earning his Juris Doctor from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, and he has been practicing law in North Carolina for more than two decades. The through-line of that practice has never changed: trial advocacy for people and institutions that need a lawyer willing to try the case, not just paper it.

The first pillar of that practice is criminal defense. Mr. Forbes has handled hundreds of criminal cases across the state of North Carolina, with trial experience in both District and Superior Courts, defending clients in matters running from traffic offenses and misdemeanors through serious felony charges. Criminal work is where a trial lawyer’s instincts are forged (cross-examination under pressure, evidentiary fights that decide cases before closing argument, and juries that must be won rather than assumed), and it remains as deep a part of his practice as any other.

The second pillar is personal injury, and it runs every bit as deep. At two of the region’s most active injury firms, Mills & Levine, P.A. and Ted A. Greve & Associates, P.A., Mr. Forbes worked on more than one thousand personal injury cases (automobile and trucking collisions, workplace injuries, premises liability, and wrongful death), carrying files from intake through investigation, negotiation, and trial. That volume produced results, including seven-figure settlements and verdicts, among them a settlement of eleven million dollars, and a reputation among his peers for his ability to negotiate with insurance carriers, read a jury, and walk into the courtroom when the number is not right. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

For a number of years, Mr. Forbes has also served as the appointed County Attorney for Anson County, where he represents the county as a whole rather than any single department. He advises the Board of Commissioners on every matter that reaches the public agenda; counsels the county on civil rights matters; guides industrial and economic development projects as they are recruited, negotiated, and closed; and manages the county’s legal affairs in all facets: contracts and procurement, real property and public facilities, personnel, elections matters, school and capital projects, ordinances, and litigation. His contract has been renewed by the Commissioners year after year, with board leadership publicly praising the value of his counsel through the county’s most complicated legal questions.

That combination matters. A lawyer who has defended the accused, tried injury cases to verdict, and answered for a government (where every decision is public and every dollar is taxpayer money) brings a range that cannot be assembled any other way, and clients on every side of his practice benefit from it.

Today, Mr. Forbes leads Scott Forbes Law from Wadesboro, North Carolina, where his practice serves clients throughout Anson and Union counties and the greater Charlotte region: free consultations, direct access to the attorney actually handling the matter, no fee on injury cases unless the case is won, and clients treated like family from the first phone call forward.

Through his Of Counsel role with DPS Law, Mr. Forbes accepts co-counsel and referral matters in criminal defense, personal injury, wrongful death, and local government law, one of the rare attorneys who has stood in front of juries for the accused and the injured alike, and stood behind a county through every legal question it faces.

Jana K. Jones is the Founder and Managing Partner of the Law Office of Jana K. Jones, PLLC, a Charlotte-based law firm focused on family law and estate planning. A Charlotte native with more than a decade of experience in private practice, Jana represents clients in complex family matters involving child custody, child support, divorce, equitable distribution, alimony, separation agreements, contempt, and modification proceedings.

Jana has developed a particular focus on advocating for fathers and protecting meaningful parent-child relationships. Her approach combines strategic advocacy with straightforward advice, careful preparation, and an understanding that family-law cases involve far more than legal documents: they involve children, finances, futures, and families in transition.

A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central University School of Law, Jana’s background in sociology, child and family advocacy, domestic-violence response, mediation, and public service has shaped the way she practices law. Today, she also helps individuals and families protect what they have built through thoughtful estate planning designed to preserve assets, provide direction, and create lasting legacies.

Jana K. Jones is the Founder and Managing Partner of the Law Office of Jana K. Jones, PLLC, where she represents individuals and families in family law and estate planning matters. A Charlotte native who has practiced law in the greater Charlotte area for more than a decade, Jana has built her practice around a straightforward philosophy: clients facing some of the most consequential decisions of their lives deserve an attorney who will tell them the truth, prepare them for what comes next, and fight strategically for what matters most.

Family law has been at the center of Jana’s practice since she entered private practice. She represents clients in matters involving child custody and visitation, child support, divorce, equitable distribution, post-separation support and alimony, separation agreements, contempt, and modification proceedings. Her practice has given her extensive experience with the realities of family disputes, where the legal issues cannot be separated from the emotional, financial, and practical consequences for the people involved.

Over the course of her career, Jana developed a particular commitment to representing fathers. She saw too many good fathers enter the family court system believing they were automatically at a disadvantage or that being an involved parent somehow mattered less because they were not the mother. Jana’s philosophy is different. Fathers have an important and irreplaceable role in their children’s lives, and she believes they deserve informed, strategic representation that protects both their parental rights and their relationships with their children.

That focus does not mean viewing every family law case as a battle. Jana believes effective representation requires knowing when to negotiate, when to resolve an issue efficiently, and when a client’s interests require a firmer approach. She is candid with clients about the strengths and weaknesses of their positions and works to give them the information they need to make sound decisions rather than simply telling them what they want to hear. Her goal is not conflict for conflict’s sake. It is to identify what matters, develop a strategy, and move the client toward the best achievable outcome.

Jana’s approach to family law is rooted in a background that began long before she opened her firm. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating on the Dean’s List and earning recognition for academic achievement. Her study of sociology gave her an early understanding of family systems, human behavior, and the influence parents and communities have on a child’s development.

She went on to earn her Juris Doctor from North Carolina Central University School of Law, where her interest in children and families became an important part of her legal training. Her work with the Center for Child and Family Health in Durham included legal research involving evidentiary issues in child abuse cases. She also served as a member of Durham’s Domestic Violence Response Team and Sexual Assault Response Team, working alongside law enforcement, medical professionals, and community stakeholders. Jana was trained and certified as a mediator through the North Carolina Alternative Dispute Resolution Commission and mediated cases in Wake County. Her commitment to service during law school was recognized with the North Carolina Bar Association’s Certificate of Achievement for Public Service.

In 2009, Jana opened her own law practice. What began as an entrepreneurial decision grew into a firm built around the belief that clients should understand both their legal options and what their representation will cost. Over the years, Jana has grown from a solo practitioner into the leader of an expanding legal team while remaining actively involved in the practice of law and the representation of her clients. The Law Office of Jana K. Jones, PLLC emphasizes clear communication, strategic representation, and transparent pricing, including flat fee and structured fee arrangements designed to give clients greater predictability during an already uncertain time.

Jana’s understanding of family is also deeply personal. Divorce, reconciliation, remarriage, and blended family dynamics are not concepts she understands only from representing clients. They have been part of her own life. Her parents divorced before she was born, later reconciled and had Jana, and ultimately divorced again when she was an adult. Today, Jana is a wife and mother in a blended family, having married a husband who was previously married.

Those experiences have given Jana a perspective on divorce that extends well beyond what happens in a courtroom. She understands that families do not always follow a straight line. People separate and sometimes reconcile. Marriages end and new families are created. Children grow up carrying their own experiences of their parents’ relationships, and former spouses may remain connected through children and family responsibilities long after a divorce is final. A legal case may end with an order or agreement, but the family often continues in a different form.

As an attorney, wife, mother, and business owner, Jana also understands that decisions involving family rarely exist in a vacuum. Careers, children, marriages, finances, schedules, and responsibilities all compete for attention, and the choices made during a family transition can affect every part of a person’s life. That perspective has made Jana especially mindful of giving clients advice that works not only on paper, but in the real world they will have to live in after the case is over.

Being a mother has reinforced something Jana has seen repeatedly in her practice: children benefit when the adults responsible for them are able to keep their long-term well-being at the center of the conversation. She understands both the instinct to protect your child and the importance of making thoughtful decisions that serve a child beyond the immediate conflict. Her own experiences with divorce, reconciliation, remarriage, and blended family dynamics have deepened her appreciation for the many layers families may be navigating at once. That perspective informs the practical, direct advice she gives parents navigating custody and other family law disputes.

As her practice has grown, Jana’s understanding of what it means to protect a family has expanded as well. Today, the firm also provides estate planning services to help clients protect their assets, make deliberate decisions about incapacity and inheritance, and create a plan for the people they love. For Jana, family law and estate planning are connected by the same fundamental idea: good legal representation should not simply respond to a crisis. It should help people protect their families, their rights, and the legacy they are building.

Jana is admitted to practice in North Carolina and the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. She is a member of the North Carolina State Bar, Mecklenburg County Bar, North Carolina Bar Association, John S. Leary Association of Black Attorneys, and North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys.

Charlotte is not simply where Jana practices law. It is home. She was raised here, built her career here, opened her firm here, and is now raising her own family here. That connection to the community, combined with nearly two decades of experience and a lifetime of seeing firsthand that families can change, separate, reconnect, and rebuild, shapes the way she approaches her work today: with candor, preparation, perspective, and an understanding that behind every case file is a real family trying to figure out what comes next.

David A. Concha is a Charlotte immigration attorney and the founder of The Law Offices of David A. Concha, P.C., which he established in 2004. For more than two decades he has represented individuals, families, and businesses in family- and employment-based immigration matters, deportation and removal defense, and “crimigration,” the interplay between criminal charges and immigration status. He also handles traffic and misdemeanor matters and uncontested divorces throughout North Carolina. A graduate of North Carolina State University and the Indiana University School of Law at Bloomington, he is admitted to practice in North Carolina and South Carolina and is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. The son of immigrants and fully fluent in Spanish, David has taught immigration law at Central Piedmont Community College and received the 2007 La Noticia Community Service Award for his work in Charlotte’s Hispanic community.

David A. Concha has spent more than twenty years guiding immigrants, their families, and their employers through one of the most consequential and unforgiving areas of American law. As the founder of The Law Offices of David A. Concha, P.C., a Charlotte immigration firm he established in 2004, David has built a practice defined by a simple conviction: for his clients, an immigration case is never just a case. It is a family kept together, a career made possible, or a life rebuilt in a new country. That conviction is personal. David is the son of immigrants, and as he puts it, that is why his profession “is not only my job but my passion.”

David’s practice spans the full range of immigration law. He represents clients in family-based and business-based immigration, helping spouses, parents, children, and employers navigate petitions, adjustment of status, consular processing, and permanent residency. He is equally at home in the highest-stakes corner of the field, deportation and removal defense, where he appears on behalf of clients facing removal proceedings and works to keep families intact.

A particular focus of his practice is “crimigration,” the interplay between criminal and immigration law. A traffic citation or misdemeanor that would be routine for a citizen can carry life-altering consequences for a non-citizen, and David handles both sides of that problem: he defends clients in traffic and misdemeanor matters and advises on the immigration consequences of any plea or conviction, so the criminal case and the immigration case are managed under a single strategy rather than at cross-purposes. He also handles uncontested divorces throughout North Carolina. His broader background in criminal defense, personal injury, workers’ compensation, and family law proves decisive in the many matters where these areas collide: an injured worker afraid to assert his rights, a divorce that threatens a conditional resident’s status. Clients benefit from an advocate who sees the whole problem, not just the immigration file.

David earned his undergraduate degree from North Carolina State University and his Juris Doctor from the Indiana University School of Law at Bloomington. He began his career as an associate at two Charlotte-area firms before opening his own practice, and he is admitted to the state bars of North Carolina and South Carolina. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and the Mecklenburg County Bar.

Fluent in Spanish and registered with the Chamber of Commerce of Spain for conducting business in Spanish, David serves Charlotte’s Spanish-speaking community in its own language: in the office, in the courtroom, and in the community at large. He has taught immigration law at Central Piedmont Community College and speaks frequently to businesses, churches, and community organizations throughout the Charlotte region on immigration topics. In 2007, La Noticia recognized his service to the Hispanic community with its Community Service Award.

David’s combination of deep subject-matter expertise, courtroom experience, bilingual practice, and genuine personal commitment has made him one of Charlotte’s most trusted names in immigration law. Within the DPS Law network, he serves as the go-to resource for all immigration matters (from routine family petitions to emergency removal defense), as co-counsel wherever a client’s business, criminal, or family matter carries immigration consequences, and as the referral point for traffic and misdemeanor defense and uncontested divorces anywhere in North Carolina.

Runs the firm’s digital presence: the website, the short-form work and the channels the firm publishes through.

Strategic Marketing Director and Business Growth Consultant with over 15 years of experience overseeing scalable demand generation strategies, optimizing patient and client acquisition models, and advancing brand positioning from scaling small and mid-sized businesses to established enterprise platforms. Functioning as a fractional marketing executive, Carolyn directs comprehensive marketing initiatives and growth strategies that connect complex business models directly to predictable revenue.

Her expertise spans core growth verticals, with particular depth in legal, medical aesthetics, peptides & telehealth MSO platforms, and cannabis. Grounded in performance media, Google Ads, Local Services Ads (LSA), and targeted paid social campaigns, Carolyn specializes in translating intricate regulatory landscapes and highly specialized service offerings into compelling market positioning.

Partnering closely with founders, law partners, medical directors, and executive leadership, Carolyn bridges the gap between legal structure and commercial performance, providing executive oversight across conversion rate optimization, customer acquisition cost (CAC) reduction, media spend efficiency, and strategic brand expansion.

Neel Mehta is a Strategic Business Leader, Serial Entrepreneur, and consultant with 14+ years of experience helping businesses scale, enter new markets, build strategic partnerships, deploy technology, access talent, and develop commercially viable growth strategies.

As part of the firm’s consortium, Neel complements its advisory capabilities by supporting clients beyond the legal framework. His role focuses on business strategy, commercial growth, technology, recruitment, operational scalability, strategic partnerships, and investment opportunities. He works with entrepreneurs, startups, investors, and established businesses to connect strategy with execution by helping clients launch, scale, and grow their businesses.

His corporate experience includes leadership roles with Medtronic, Philips, and the Adani Group. Neel has also built and advised consulting-led ventures across multiple industries. Through withRemote, he supports businesses with technology consulting, global recruitment, remote talent, and managed team solutions, with access to 100,000+ pre-vetted professionals.

He is the Founder of Car Concierge Pro, an automotive consulting and concierge platform that has served 1,100+ clients and generated more than $6.14 million in documented client savings. His ventures also include AiM, an insurance monitoring platform, and a diversified residential real estate investment portfolio.

A TEDx Speaker and Biomedical Informaticist, Neel pursued a graduate education in Biomedical Informatics from Arizona State University. His multidisciplinary experience brings a practical commercial perspective to the consortium helping clients move from legal and strategic planning to business execution and measurable outcomes.

Bhavya Mehta is the Co-Founder & CEO of withRemote, the remote hiring and delivery firm he started in 2020. The company now runs from four offices ( Scottsdale, Toronto, Dubai, and Mumbai) with 15+ in-house experts, a vetted pool of 100,000+ professionals, and EOR coverage in three countries, having placed and delivered for 100+ companies.

An IIT Roorkee alumnus, Bhavya spent five years in corporate strategy delivering large IT programs for global accounts before founding withRemote, and advises startups on technology and growth strategy. He still takes the intro call on every engagement himself. He is based in Mumbai and splits his time with the North American offices.