Recognition & Involvement
Awards
Law School Attorney General, University of North Carolina School of Law, 1998-1999 | Order of the Golden Fleece, 1995 | Undergraduate Attorney General, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995-1996 | Recognized in Business North Carolina magazine’s "Legal Elite” (Bankruptcy), 2009-present
Associations
North Carolina State Bar (Member) | North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers (NCATL), 1999 - Present (Member) | American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), 2002 - Present (Member) | Craven County Bar Association (Former President) | Litigation Counsel of America, 2015 | NABT Liaison to NACBA, the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, 2012 - Present | North Carolina Bar Association, Bankruptcy Section, Section Council Member, 2004 - 2007 | National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, NewTAC Board Member, 2010 - 2012 | Co-Coordinator, North Carolina Bar Association Bankruptcy Section Financial Health Clinic, 2011 | National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, member | Eastern NC Inn of Court, member | American Bankruptcy Institute, member
Speaking
“Individual Case Administration From Start To Finish,” at the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees Annual Convention, 2013 | “Practical Skills – Preparing for Contested Confirmation Battles, Other Contested Matters and Trial” at the annual Middle District Bankruptcy Seminar in Southern Pines, 2013 | Presented recent developments in dirt-for-debt Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases at the NC Bar Association Annual Bankruptcy Institute in Greensboro, 2012 | Presented recent developments in Chapter 11 business bankruptcy cases in the Eastern District of NC at the Eastern Bankruptcy Institute in Myrtle Beach, SC, 2012 | Spoke about security issues regarding Chapter 7 Trustee cases at the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees Spring Seminar, 2012 | Spoke about document retention and investigation at the 2012 Annual NABT Convention | Spoke about current Chapter 11 bankruptcy issues at the 2012 Eastern District Bankruptcy Seminar | Eastern Bankruptcy Institute, Chapter 11 Update, 2002-2008, 2011 | Eastern District of North Carolina Chapter 7 Trustee Panel Workshop, 2011 | North Carolina 33rd Annual Bankruptcy Institute, 2010, “Perfection and Avoidance Issues” | North Carolina Bar Association, “The Hard Road Ahead,” Real Property Section Annual Meeting, 2011, “Bankruptcy and Real Estate—Does Perfection Have to be Perfect?” | North Carolina 32nd Annual Bankruptcy Institute, 2009, “Bankruptcy Light? Less Fulfilling or Tastes Great? Receiverships and Other State Law Alternatives to Bankruptcy” | 30th Annual Middle District Bankruptcy Seminar, 2009, “Homebuilder/Construction Bankruptcies and Lien Issues” | “Being Secured in an Unsecured World—Bankruptcy for Paralegals”, 2009, “A View from the Trenches—the Ups and Downs of Chapter 11 Practice”