Daniel C. Pope, Jr. is Of Counsel with Wilson Ratledge, PLLC in Raleigh, NC. He has worked as a workers’ compensation defense attorney since 1989. Prior to entering private practice, he served as law clerk to two Industrial Commission Chairs, Ernest Pearson and William Stephenson. He co-chairs the Workers’ Compensation Subcommittee of the North Carolina State Bar’s Board of Legal Specialization, served on the North Carolina Industrial Commission’s Opioid Task Force, and taught as an adjunct faculty member of the North Carolina Occupational Safety & Health Education Resource Center, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He frequently lectures on workers’ compensation and related topics.