Areas of Practice: Creditors' rights, civil litigation, business law, and real property

Education: NCSU BA 1972; WFU Babcock Graduate School of Management MBA, 1974; Wake Forest School of Law, JD 1977

Representative Experience: Represented clients before all state and federal courts including bankruptcy and appellate courts. Thirty years' experience trying jury, non-jury and appellate cases. Admitted to practice before all North Carolina State Courts, all Federal district courts in NC, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the US Supreme Court

Professional/Community Activities:  Prior and/or current activities include:

• YMCA, Board of Directors/Officer
• Greater Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce, Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors
• Methodist University, Board of Trustees
• Fayetteville Economic Development Corporation, Director
• North Carolina Board of Transportation, Member
• North Carolina Economic Development Commission, member
• Wake Forest School of Law Board of Visitors, member
• Cumberland County Bar Association, officer
• North Carolina Bar Association, member (Real Estate and Bankruptcy Committees; Citizen Lawyer Committee)
• North Carolina State Bar
• USFN - America's Mortgage Banking Attorneys, Member/Director
• Peace College, Member, Board of Trustees

Honors: 2011 American Business Ethics Award; Awarded order of the Long Leaf Pine; selected to North Carolina Super Lawyers® list (2008-2011); selected to US News & World Report Best Lawyers® list (2010-2012); AV-Rated by Martindale-Hubbell; USFN Diamond Award of Excellence (2007-2011)