CURRICULUM VITAE

BREEZE L. ALCORN
The Law Firm of Breeze L. Alcorn & Associates
Post Office Box 3938 Greenville, North Carolina 27836
Phone: +1 (252) 327-1226; Fax: (866) 289-4056
Email: breeze@breezealcorn.com; Website: www.breezealcorn.com
EDUCATION
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, New Orleans, Louisiana
Juris Doctor, May 2010
Common Law Division
Honors and Activities
Certificate in International Legal Studies
Sports and Entertainment Law Society, Director of Transnational Relations
International Law Society, Member
Brussels, Belgium; Luxembourg City, Luxembourg; and Strasbourg, France: Loyolas
European Union (EU) Seminar-Tour and corresponding law article (December 2009)
- EU Institutional Law
Belize City, Belize; Dangriga, Belize; Punta Gorda, Belize: International Human
Rights Guided Research Project and corresponding law article (Summer/Fall 2009)
- Maya Aboriginal Title and Communal Land Tenure Rights
San Jos, Costa Rica: University of Costa Rica Law School, (Summer 2009)
- Latin American Legal Systems
Vienna, Austria and Prague, Czech Republic: University of Vienna Law School
several lectures held at Charles University in Prague (Summer 2008)
-EU Corporate Law, Civil Law, and Comparative Human Rights Law
Budapest, Hungary: Etvs Lornd College of Law (Summer 2008)
- Comparative Judicial Systems and Central European Law
Temple University Beasley School of Law (Temple University Japan Campus), Tokyo, Japan
Juris Doctor (12 transfer credit hours), January 2010 May 2010 (Spring 2010)
Japanese and Comparative Law
Honors and Activities
Global Human Trafficking Guided Research Project and corresponding law article
- Trafficking in Persons (applicable laws and practices within the EU, USA, and Japan)
Internship/Legal Researcher for Stephen Hesse, Senior Columnist for The Japan Times
East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
Bachelor of Science, Communication, May 2006
Media Studies Concentration (Emphasis in Print Journalism and Public Relations)
Honors and Activities
National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Member
2x Chancellors list (i.e., full-time students earning a 4.0 G.P.A. per semester)
Hosted and facilitated Belizean foreign exchange students
Belize City, Belize: University of Belize (Summer 2004)
-Postcolonial Caribbean and African Literature and Orature
Raised funds/awareness for AseraCare Hospice and the Ugandan orphan crisis
LEGAL EXPERIENCE:
The Law Firm of Breeze L. Alcorn & Associates, Greenville, North Carolina
Managing Partner, August 2013 Present
Founder of a general practice law firm. International and domestic experience negotiating
settlements, conducting evidentiary investigations, performing legal research, writing demand letters and

resolving complex disputes. Extensive courtroom experience in both District and Superior Court in many
different counties throughout North Carolina representing clients in criminal trials, criminal pleadings,
civil trials, show cause hearings, probation violations, motions for appropriate relief, bond modifications,
expungements, and appeals. Comprehensive experience drafting a wide variety of legal instruments (e.g.,
wills, living wills (healthcare power of attorney), power of attorney, claims, counterclaims, requests to
produce documents, requests for admissions, interrogatories, answers, memorandums, appellate briefs,
writs of certiorari, a wide variety of criminal and civil motions, and international and domestic contracts
(e.g., sales/service contracts, lease agreements, negotiable instruments, release agreements, etc.)).
Alcorn & Haggard, Greenville, North Carolina and Washington, North Carolina
Partner, May 2011 August 2013
Co-founder of a general practice law firm. In addition to the experience listed above (The Law Firm
of Breeze L. Alcorn & Associates), acted as co-counsel for various family law matters.
Stephen Hesse, Senior Columnist for The Japan Times, Tokyo, Japan
International Law Contributor/Investigative Reporter, August 2010 May 2012
Intern/Legal Researcher, January 2010 May 2010
Assisted Senior Environmental Columnist, Stephen Hesse (Mr. Hesse is also a professor in the Law
Faculty of Chuo University, Tokyo, as well as Associate Director of the Chuo International Center) by
providing legal research, writing, and analysis pertaining to environmental issues that affect Japan and
the world at large (co-author credits).
Jeanne M. Woods, Loyola New Orleans College of Law, New Orleans, Louisiana
Research Assistant, July 2009 January 2010
Research conducted in Belize and performed under the direction of Jeanne M. Woods, Henry F.
Bonura, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law, focusing on developments in international law concerning
aboriginal title, communal land tenure rights, non-state actors, and the right to self-determination.
The Law Firm of Roddy M. Brown, III & Angela Brown, Greenville, North Carolina
Legal Assistant Intern, August 2005 December 2005
Duties included: (1) trial preparation; (2) drafting/filing documents; and (3) courtroom observation.
NON - LEGAL EXPERIENCE:
The Beaufort Observer, Washington, North Carolina
Staff Reporter, September December 2006
Duties included: (1) writing news articles; (2) investigative research; and (3) conducting interviews.
Black Swamp Music, Greenville, North Carolina
Marketing Consultant Intern, January 2006 May 2006
Duties included: (1) constructing market strategies; (2) generating publicity; and (3) authoring and
preparing biographical accounts, promotional critiques, media press kits, and press releases.
PUBLICATIONS:
Stephen Hesse & Breeze Alcorn, Japan has a role to play in environment and rights issues in Belize, The
Japan Times, May 27, 2012, available at http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fe20120527sh.html
Stephen Hesse & Breeze Alcorn, Of forests and floods, The Japan Times, August 22, 2010, available at
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fe20100822sh.html
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:
-State Bar of North Carolina, License ID # 42387
-A Notary Public, State of North Carolina Department of The Secretary of State (July 2011 July 2016)