Eason Armstrong Keeney solves problems for people and businesses — a partner who stopped playing fair, a seller who hid what a business was really worth, an insurance carrier that will not pay, a family hurt in a wreck. For over a decade, she has tried cases in courtrooms across Eastern North Carolina. Eason is a partner at the Armstrong Law Firm, P.A. in Smithfield and practices alongside her father, L. Lamar Armstrong, Jr.

Anyone Can Divide a Bank Account. A Business Is Harder.

For over ten years Eason litigated the hardest question in North Carolina equitable distribution: what a closely held business is worth and who gets what share of it. She read the tax returns and the buy-sell agreements, hired and prepared appraisers and forensic accountants, and cross-examined the expert witnesses on the other side. She traced money people hid, valued companies no one had ever sold, and proved those numbers in court. The same questions decide business lawsuits — what is it worth, what do the records show, whom does the jury believe — whether shareholders fall out, a member gets frozen out of the company he or she built, or a partnership ends with nobody agreeing on the value of the departing share. Eason brings that experience to the firm’s business litigation, fraud, and unfair trade practice work in state and federal court.

Background

Eason grew up in Smithfield and moved home to practice law with her family. A “Double Deac,” she earned her B.A. in History and Religion from Wake Forest University in 2012 and her Juris Doctor from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2015. In law school she qualified for the Trial Bar, tried cases through the Litigation Clinic, earned the highest grade in Trial Practice, served on the Board of Editors of the Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy, and won the North Carolina Advocates for Justice and CALI Excellence awards. She joined The Armstrong Law Firm in September 2015.

Eason is admitted to practice in North Carolina’s state courts, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and the Supreme Court of the United States. She belongs to the North Carolina and Johnston County Bar Associations and to First Baptist Church of Smithfield. She chaired the Johnston County Department of Social Services Board of Directors and served on the North Carolina Family Law Advisory Council.

At home, Eason’s husband, Daniel, and their two daughters — five and seven — set the schedule. In her “free” time, Eason studies World War II history, competes on the pickleball court more than she will admit, and travels the world, although nowhere on earth brings her more peace than Ocean Isle Beach.

Practice Areas

  • Business Disputes & Fraud
  • Shareholder, Partnership, and Membership Disputes
  • Business Valuation Disputes
  • Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices
  • Breach of Contract
  • Collections / Money Disputes
  • Property Disputes
  • Insurance Bad Faith
  • Personal Injury & Car Accidents
  • Alienation of Affection & Criminal Conversation
  • Absolute Divorce (no other claims)
  • Premarital Agreements