About Stephanie K.
Stephanie K. Faris built a steady path into estate work from a background in the humanities and law. She earned a B.A. in Comparative Religion from Duke University in 2003 and completed her J.D. at North Carolina Central University School of Law in 2014, graduating cum laude and taking coursework in elder law and estate planning.
Before law school she trained as a paralegal and held North Carolina Certified Paralegal status from 2010 through 2013. Those years of hands-on support work preceded her formal legal studies and informed her approach to client service and document management once she began practicing.
Faris’s early legal experience was rooted in public service. While a student she volunteered with the N.C. Central School of Law Pro Bono Program and interned with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of North Carolina. After graduation she worked as a volunteer lawyer for Legal Aid of North Carolina in Pittsboro in 2014, taking on matters that often involved clients with limited resources.
In 2015 she opened Faris Law Office, where she handled a range of matters typical of a small firm practice. Records show she later operated under The Law Office of Stephanie K. Faris, PLLC and offered pro bono estate planning services in 2018. In 2019 she also worked as a contract e-discovery lawyer on various engagements, a role that drew on both technical document skills and litigation support processes.
By 2023 Faris had moved into a role listed as Estate Planning and Probate Lawyer at Cary Estate Planning. She is licensed in North Carolina and maintains professional memberships that reflect her practice interests. She has been a member of the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys since 2015, and she joined both the North Carolina Bar Association and the American Bar Association in 2014.
Her career traces a line from paralegal training to volunteer public service, to small-firm ownership, and then to a practice concentrated on end-of-life planning and probate administration. She works in North Carolina and handles matters that include drafting wills, preparing powers of attorney, and guiding clients through the probate process. She currently practices estate planning and probate law in North Carolina.
