Clinton R. "Clint" Pinyan

Clinton R. "Clint" Pinyan


Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard LLP

Recognized since 2013

Greensboro, North Carolina

Practice Areas

Commercial Litigation

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Clint Pinyan has an extended and varied practice focused on government regulation of businesses and professionals. He advocates for clients and advises them in a variety of settings, concentrating on complex business and commercial litigation, administrative and regulatory law.

Clint represents both regulators and regulated businesses and professionals, giving him extensive experience on both sides of the regulatory process. Clint serves as general counsel to the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy and has represented other state and local government agencies, counties and municipalities. He also represents regulated persons before agencies such as the Board of Certified Public Accountant Examiners, the Medical Board, the Board of Dental Examiners, the Psychology Board and the Social Work Certification and Licensure Board. Clint has litigated dozens of administrative hearings in North Carolina.

Clint also advises businesses and professionals and litigates on their behalf on regulatory issues. He has litigated numerous antitrust, government contracting, health care and other cases focusing on both federal and state trade and commercial regulation and government programs. From 2009-2010, Clint served as chair of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Antitrust and Complex Business Disputes Section, and he has served that section in a variety of other capacities.

Clint represents health care organizations, professionals and regulators on a myriad of legal issues and in a variety of forums, including litigation, administrative practice and advising. Clint’s perspective on health care law has been shaped by representing both government health care regulators and regulated businesses and professionals, giving him extensive experience on both sides of the health care regulatory process. Clint serves as general counsel to the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy and has represented several other state and local government agencies, counties and municipalities in North Carolina and elsewhere on health care matters. In addition, he represents health care professionals before their licensing boards. Clint has litigated dozens of health care cases through the administrative hearing process in North Carolina, as well as in courts throughout the state.

Location
  • Renaissance Plaza, Suite 2000
    230 North Elm Street
    P.O. Box 26000
    Greensboro, NC 27420
Education
  • University of Chicago, J.D., graduated 1995
  • Wake Forest University, BA, graduated 1991
Bar Admissions
  • North Carolina, North Carolina Bar Association
  • District of Columbia, The District of Columbia Bar
Affiliations
  • Greensboro Bar Association - Member
  • North Carolina Bar Association - Awards Committee, Section Council, Administrative Law Section
  • North Carolina Bar Association - Member, Section Council, Antitrust and Complex Business Disputes Law Section
Court Admissions
  • US Court of Federal Claims
  • US Supreme Court
  • US Court of Appeals - 4th, 6th, 9th, DC Circuits
  • US District Court - Western District of NC
  • US District Court - Middle District of NC
  • US District Court - Eastern District of NC
Federal Clerkships
  • United States District Court

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 for work in:
  • Commercial Litigation
Special Focus:
  • COVID-19
Awards:
  • Recognized by his peers for inclusion in Business North Carolina's "Legal Elite" in Antitrust Law (2012, 2018, 2024)
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Administrative / Regulatory Law
  • Health Care Law

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