Practice(s): Banking, Commercial Transactions, Creditor's Rights Law, Lender Liability, Secured Transactions, Bankruptcy, Collection, Foreclosure, Commercial Real Property, Residential Real Property
Online Articles: The Bankruptcy Reform Act and the Medical Profession: How Will This Bill Affect Your Practice?
Born: Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1955.
Admitted to bar: 1986 North Carolina; 1987 District of Columbia.
Education: University of Colorado (B.S., 1978); Wake Forest University (J.D., cum laude, 1986); Articles Editor, Wake Forest University Law Review (1985-86).
Member: Forsyth County, North Carolina, and the District of Columbia Bar Associations; Former Chapter 7 Panel Trustee, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, 1988-90; Counsel Member to the Bankruptcy Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, 2007-2010.
Author: "Aligning Your Practice With the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005," National Business Institute Seminar (2005)(co-author); "The Bankruptcy Reform Act and the Medical Profession: How Will This Bill Affect Your Practice?", M.D. News (June 2005); "Foreclosures, Partitions, Boundary Disputes and Condemnations", Practice Before the Clerk, General Practice Section (NCBA 2003)(co-author); "Practice Before the Clerk - Click with the Clerk," North Carolina State and Local Views from the Bench (NCBA, 2002)(co-author); "Important Code Changes Affecting Consumer Bankruptcy Practice," Eighteenth Annual Bankruptcy Law Institute (NCBA 1995); "Real Property Foreclosure Procedures: North Carolina Foreclosure and Repossession," National Business Institute Seminar (1995); "New Issues and Hot Topics in Chapters 7 and 13," Fifteenth Annual Bankruptcy Seminar, Middle District of North Carolina (1994) (co-author); "Circuit Court Decisions Raise Possible Conflict With Five-Day Attorney's Fee Notice and FDCPA," 14 The Bankruptcy Lawyer 1 (November, 1992); "U.S. Supreme Court Bankruptcy Cases Decided in 1990-91 Term," 13 The Bankruptcy Lawyer 4 (January, 1992); "Case Administration: Chapter 7," Individual & Business Bankruptcy Seminar (NCBA 1990).
Civic Activities: Brenner Children's Hospital Advisory Board; Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority Advisory Board.
Lecturer: "Family Law and Real Estate Issues in Bankruptcy," Basics of Bankruptcy Seminar (1998); "Practice Before the Clerk," North Carolina State and Local Views from the Bench (NCBA 2002); "Collateral Liquidation: Nuts and Bolts of the UCC," Branch Banking and Trust Company Special Asset Officer Meeting (2005).
Admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina. |