Tien Cheng’s practice focuses on general litigation, trucking and coverage issues in the firm’s Raleigh office. Tien has worked on matters ranging from small claims to high exposure wrongful death lawsuits in both state and federal courts. He also has experience with liens and breach of contract matters. Tien has worked on both first-party and third-party coverage matters across multiple states. Prior to joining MGC, he was the assistant attorney general with the North Carolina Department of Justice where he represented the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services as outside counsel, with a focus on matters of regulatory and compliance, agency rulemaking, civil penalty enforcement, agency licensing and permitting, animal disease, food safety, industrial hemp, procurement and contracts, as well as represented the State of North Carolina on criminal appellate matters. Tien also served as an agency legal specialist for the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, as well, where he provided general in-house counsel services.

Outside of the office, Tien enjoys spending time with his wife, two cats as well as playing league softball, bowling, and volleyball and playing chess on Sunday afternoons in Glenwood South in Raleigh. He speaks Mandarin-Chinese and immigrated from Taiwan in 1996.