James A. Crouch joined Manning in 1997 after serving as trial counsel for several years with North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services. Manning & Crouch was formed with the express purpose of limiting its practice to criminal defense matters in North Carolina and United States District Courts in North Carolina.

G. Ryan Willis became associated with Manning & Crouch in 2006 after four years' service as an Assistant District Attorney with the Wake County District Attorney's Office.

Our firm's practice is limited to criminal defense matters, handling criminal trial matters in all State and Federal Courts, in matters ranging from complex federal grand jury investigations and trial matters in white-collar, controlled substance, and criminal environmental prosecutions, to homicide and other violent felonies, fraud and other economic crimes, to the trial and handling of Driving While Impaired, revoked license matters and other general traffic-related misdemeanors and felonies.

Our attorneys are admitted to practice in North Carolina courts, the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

Manning & Crouch carries the highest peer reveiew rating from Martindale-Hubbell, and is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.

Tom Manning has carried the highest peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell since 1986. Manning and Crouch are both listed in Best Lawyers in America for Criminal Defense; Manning for White-Collar and Criminal Defense; Crouch for Traffic and Criminal Defense. Tom Manning has been listed for many years as a "Super Lawyer" in various North Carolina business publications, and as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in North Carolina.

All of our attorneys are active in local Bar organizations; Manning is a frequent lecturer on criminal law topics at continuing education seminars and has served as an officer in local, regional, and statewide bar associations. He was the 2008 recipient of the N. C. State Bar Board of Legal Specialization's Howard Gum Service Award for his work as a Criminal Law Specialization Examiner for the State Bar, and has been a Board-Certified Specialist in State and Federal Criminal Law since 1992, and a Permanent Delegate to the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference since 1982.