• North Carolina State University , B.S. in Agricultural Econmics - 1970 Golden Chain, Student Senate, President of departmental club, Secretary of IFC, Thirty & Three. 
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, M.A. in Higher Education - 1975 
• Wake Forest University School of Law, Juris Doctor -- 1979 Law Review, Business Editor

• Greensboro Bar Association 
• North Carolina Bar Association 
• North Carolina, District of Columbia, and Arkansas Bars 
• District 18 Bar 
• Bar of the United States Supreme Court

Bill Eagles now limits his practice to serving as a neutral. He has mediated in the superior court since the program in North Carolina was new, more than 20 years. Most of his experience of over 1500 cases is in that program. He has also conducted mediated settlement conferences of matters not yet in litigation, of state district court cases, of federal cases, and of disputes before the clerk of court.

Bill has practiced law for 35 years, overwhelmingly a litigation practice that has included state and federal courts at all levels, from small claims to the U.S. Supreme Court (McDonald v Smith, 1985). He has practiced in rural Arkansas and in Washington, DC. He has now been in Greensboro since 1990. Clients have included individuals, small business, and large corporations and institutions.

In late 2011, Bill opened his own office. In addition to mediation, Bill is an adjunct Professor of Law at Elon Law School, regularly teaches introduction to law at UNCG (political science department), and recently taught ethics at High Point University. He has lectured at Wilmington College (Ohio) and about mediation at Guilford College. He is now scheduled to be the Quaker in Residence at Earlham School of Religion (Richmond, Indiana) in the fall of 2016 and to lecture about mediation in Oxford, England, for the University of Oklahoma Law School in the summer of 2016.