About Linda
Linda Sayed took an unconventional path to law. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry and secondary education from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 1978, then returned to the same university for a Master of Education in 1985. Two decades after her undergraduate degree she completed her Juris Doctor at Campbell University’s Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law in 1998. While at Campbell she served on the Campbell Law Review from 1996 to 1998, was Editor-at-Large in 1997–98, and participated on the Association of Trial Lawyers of America Trial Team during her final years in law school.
Her early legal career began immediately after law school. In 1998 she joined Block, Crouch, Keeter & Huffman, LLP as an associate. The following year she moved to Ward and Smith, P.A., where she spent time building courtroom and client experience. She returned to the Block, Crouch firms in 2001, this time as an associate at Block, Crouch & Keeter, LLP. Over the next several years she took on broader responsibilities and in 2005 became a partner in the reconstituted firm Block, Crouch, Keeter, Behm & Sayed, LLP.
Sayed is licensed to practice in North Carolina and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She is certified as a Family Law Specialist by the North Carolina State Bar, a credential that signals concentration in that area of law under the bar’s standards. Her courtroom experience, coupled with the specialist certification, frames much of her professional identity.
Throughout her career she has maintained ties to local and state bar organizations. She has been a member of the New Hanover County Bar Association since 1998 and joined the North Carolina Bar Association’s Family Law Section in 2001. She also participated in Coastal Women Lawyers from 2015 until 2019. These memberships have provided forums for continuing education and collegial exchange among family law practitioners.
Sayed’s background in education and the sciences is an uncommon foundation for a family law attorney. It lent her an analytical approach to casework and a familiarity with institutional settings that can shape family law matters. In practice she has handled matters that require careful fact development and procedural precision.
Her work over the last two decades has been based in the Wilmington area, and she has remained involved in cases that raise both legal and human complexities. She currently practices family law in North Carolina.
