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Practice(s): Banking, Bank Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Commercial Transactions, Creditor's Rights Law, Consumer Credit Law, Lender Liability, Public Finance, Secured Transactions, Statutory Liens, Uniform Commercial Code, Bankruptcy, Collection, Foreclosure, Business Entities, Contracts, Commercial Real Property, Real Estate Development
Online Articles: Tug Of War: The Battle Over Federal Pre-Emption - 6/1/2007, An Update on Identity Fraud - 12/1/2006
Born: Durham, North Carolina, 1951.
Admitted to bar: 1976 North Carolina.
Education: Wake Forest University (B.A., cum laude, 1973); University of North Carolina (J.D., 1976).
Member: Forsyth County, North Carolina (Business Law Section Council, 1987-1990, 1995-1997, Vice Chair, 1997-1999, Chair, 2000-2001; Continuing Legal Education Chair, 1995-1996; Business Law Curriculum Committee, 1994-1995; Financial Institutions Committee Chair, 1989-1991; Ad Hoc Committee on Proposed Revisions to Uniform Commercial Code, 1991-1992), and American (Business Law Section) Bar Associations; North Carolina Bankers Association (Bank Counsel Committee Chair, 1985); Vice President and Associate Legal Counsel, NCNB Corporation (1979-1988); Adjunct Professor of Banking Law, Wake Forest University School of Law (2001- ); Board of Advisors, UNC Law School Center for Banking and Finance.
Author: "A New Way to Pay: The Growing Use of E-Money," Business North Carolina 1997 Law Journal; "Consumer Credit Law Primer," Seventeenth Annual Bankruptcy Law Institute (NCBA 1994); "The Impact of Federal Regulation on Financing in the 1990's," Hot Topics for Business Lawyers Seminar (NCBA 1991); "Legislature Creates New Deposit Accounts," 9 Notes Bearing Interest 5 (1989); "An Update on Identity Fraud," MD News, December, 2006; "Tug of War: the Battle Over Federal Pre-emption," Business North Carolina 2007 Law Journal.
Civic Activities: Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Utility Commission (Chair, Operations Committee) (1996-2006); The Science Center and Environmental Park of Forsyth County ("SCIWORKS"), Board of Directors (1999-2003), President (2004-2005); Leadership Connections; Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce; Junior Achievement volunteer instructor; YMCA youth basketball coach; Samaritan Inn volunteer; Reynolda Rotary Club.
Admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. |
