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Practice(s): Local Government Law, Mediation, Banking, Bank Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Commercial Transactions, Creditor's Rights Law, Consumer Credit Law, Lender Liability, Secured Transactions, Statutory Liens, Bankruptcy
Online Articles: MDNC Bankruptcy Seminar - 5/1/2001
Born: Rocky Mount, North Carolina, 1945.
Admitted to bar: 1971 North Carolina.
Education: University of North Carolina (A.B., 1967); Wake Forest University (J.D., 1971); Member, Wake Forest University Law Review (1970-71), Phi Alpha Delta.
Member: Forsyth County and North Carolina (Bankruptcy Section Council, 1989-92; Chair, 1998-99) Bar Associations; Adjunct Professor of Law, Debtor-Creditor Relations, Wake Forest University School of Law (1990-95); North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys; Commercial Law League of America (1976- ); Recognized as one of "The Best Lawyers In America" (1994- ) in the area of Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Laws; Who's Who in American Law; Listed in Business North Carolina Magazine's "Legal Elite" in Bankruptcy Law since 2002.
Author: "Financial Projections and Information," (CCBA 2002); "Chapter 11," Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twenty-First Annual Bankruptcy Seminars, Middle District of North Carolina (1997, 1998, 2000); "Bankruptcy - A Legitimate Business Remedy - Whether You Use It or Not," Business North Carolina (Law Journal Supplement, May 1996); "Ethics Quiz and Panel Discussion," Fifteenth Annual Bankruptcy Law Institute (NCBA 1992); "Landlord and Tenant Law Issues Update - Section 365," Twelfth Annual Bankruptcy Law Institute (NCBA 1989); "Hazardous Waste Response Costs Liability for Creditors" and "Avoidability of Guarantees Pursuant to Bankruptcy Code Sections 547 and 548," Ninth Annual Bankruptcy Law Institute (NCBA 1986); "Involuntary Bankruptcies," Fifth Annual Bankruptcy Seminar, Middle District of North Carolina (1984); "Special Proceedings - Claim and Delivery, Attachments, Foreclosure," Practice Before the Clerk (NCBA 1982, rev. ed. 1988).
Civic Activities: Central YMCA of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, Board of Directors, 1976-82; Metropolitan YMCA of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, Board of Directors, 1982-90, President, 1990-91; The Science Center and Environmental Park of Forsyth County ("SCIWORKS"), Board of Directors, 1992-93, 1996-97, president, 1983-85, 1990-91; Winston Salem Rotary Club; Board of Governors, Piedmont Club, 2004-; Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina, Board of Directors, 2004-2006; Housing Authority of Winston-Salem, Board of Commissioners, 2005-.
Admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of North Carolina and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. |
