ABOUT US – BEARD LAW, PLLC

CRYSTAL BEARD, ESQ.

Crystal is originally from Winter Haven, Florida. She attended college at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina and graduated Cum Laude majoring in Communication Studies. After graduating from Furman in 2006, she worked in real estate for a builder in Nashville, Tennessee until 2011.

Crystal attended law school at Stetson College of Law in Gulfport, Florida and graduated in December of 2013, becoming barred in Florida in 2014. In 2014, her family relocated to North Carolina, and she sat for the North Carolina Bar in 2015 and has been working in the areas of Estate Administration, Estate Planning and Guardianship Law ever since.

Helping her clients meet their goals, whether with future needs regarding their estate plans or helping probate an estate after a passing, is something Crystal really enjoys. She lives in Wake Forest, North Carolina with her husband, daughters Kylee, Sydney, Emory and Berkley, and their four-legged furry children, JoJo and Violet. She loves coaching her daughter’s soccer teams and playing soccer and tennis when she can!

ERIN RIDDICK, ESQ.

Erin is a North Carolina native, having grown up in the small town of Ahoskie. She attended college at East Carolina University, where she double majored in English and History, and graduated magna cum laude. She moved to Raleigh to attend law school and graduated from Campbell University’s Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law in 2017. She became licensed to practice law in the State of North Carolina that same year and has been practicing in Raleigh since that time.

She began her legal career as an associate at a local firm, focusing primarily in adult guardianship and estate planning. Prior to joining Beard Law, PLLC, she most recently worked as an Assistant Clerk and Legal Officer in the Office of the Wake County Clerk of Superior Court. In her judicial capacity as an Assistant Clerk and Legal Officer, she presided over hundreds of hearings involving incompetency, guardianship, estate matters and name change issues.

At Beard Law, Erin continues to use her prior experiences and advocacy skills to help clients and their families in times of need. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, reading, and spending time with her kitties, Liv and Pip.