Philip has more than 28 years of legal practice in Civil Litigation with extensive trial work in the areas of personal injury and land condemnation. He has represented clients in cases against numerous private and public condemnors across North Carolina, receiving verdicts up to 2.6 million dollars.

A Wake County native, Philip received his undergraduate degree at Campbell University in 1979 and his law degree from North Carolina Central University in 1984. That same year, he joined the partnership that is today known as Kirk, Kirk, Howell, Cutler & Thomas, L.L.P.

Philip Kirk was admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court in 1985 and the U.S. Supreme Court in 1996. He has been appointed by the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court to serve on the Justice’s Commission on Professionalism. He has earned the AV® Pre-eminent Peer Review Rating through Martindale-Hubbell and admitted to practice in U.S. District Court in 1985 and the U.S Supreme Court in 1996.

Philip is a husband and father of two as well as an active member of the Wendell community where he has been a youth baseball and softball coach and has been membership chair with the Lions Club. Philip is also an avid deer and waterfowl hunter.