Personal Statement: We are our clients’ advocates in a complicated legal system and want the best possible outcome for them. We make every effort to work with our clients to make their legal problems or goals affordable both financially and emotionally.
Heather Whitney Culp
Practice Areas: Representation of debtors, creditors, and other parties in interest in civil cases, including receiverships; representation of debtors, creditors and bankruptcy trustees in Chapter 7, 11 and 13 bankruptcy cases; debt settlement; substitute trustee engagements in commercial foreclosures; representation of parties to business disputes.
Admitted: 1997, Kentucky (inactive); 1998, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky; 2000, U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky; 2002, North Carolina and U.S. District Court, Western District of North Carolina; 2006, U.S. Tax Court; 2007, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina, 2010; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina, 2011.
Law School: University of Kentucky, J.D., 1997
College: Miami University, B.A., English Literature, cum laude, with departmental honors, 1994
Born: Killeen, Texas, March 1, 1973
Professional Affiliations:
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- American Bar Association
- Commercial Law League of America
- Kentucky Bar Association
- Mecklenburg County Bar – Member, Continuing Legal Education Committee, 2007-present; Co-Chair, Continuing Legal Education Committee, 2008-2010
- North Carolina Bar Association – Nominations Committee (term expiring June, 2012)
- North Carolina Bar Association – Member, Lawyers in the Schools Committee/Law-Related Advisory Committee, 2002-present; Co-Chair, Lawyers in the Schools Committee’s Justice Teaching Institute Subcommittee, 2004-2006; Lawyers in the Schools Committee, 2006-2007; Chair, Law-Related Education Advisory Committee, 2007-2009)
- North Carolina Bar Association – Bankruptcy Section Council(term expiring June, 2013)
- North Carolina State Bar
- National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees – Associate member
- Western District of North Carolina committee to plan annual bankruptcy seminar – 2010-2011
Professional recognition
- Super Lawyer, Rising Star 2011. While up to five percent of the lawyers in the state are named to Super Lawyers, no more than 2.5 percent are named to the Rising Stars list.
- Business NC’s Legal Elite 2011. Past winners become members of Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite Hall of Fame and are ineligible to win again.
Recent speaking engagements and articles
- Program planner, “What to Do When the IRS Is Knocking on Your Client’s Door,” Mecklenburg County Bar Continuing Legal Education seminar to be held 10/17/11.
- Program planner, “Representing Clients Before the North Carolina Department of Revenue,” Mecklenburg County Bar Continuing Legal Education seminar held 6/30/11
- Co-Chair of the W.D.N.C. Bankruptcy Seminar Planning Committee for the Mecklenburg County Bar’s annual continuing legal education seminar held 5/20/11
- Program planner, Mecklenburg County Bar’s Annual Bankruptcy Update Continuing Legal Education seminars, 2008, 2009 and 2010
- “Bankruptcy 101: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About Bankruptcy,” Mecklenburg County Bar Continuing Legal Education seminar held 2/19/10.
- “Working with Clients Facing Economic Crisis,” as part of a Mecklenburg County Bar Continuing Legal Education seminar titled “Hard Times: How to Survive and Thrive in the Economic Recession,” held 4/17/09; given again as part of the Mecklenburg County Bar’s Sole Practitioner/Small Firm Section meeting on 5/7/09
- “Small Business Bankruptcies: The Dream is Dead,” authored by Richard M Mitchell and Heather W Culp, September ’08 issue of the Mecklenburg County Bar newsletter
- “Asset Planning and Protection,” authored by Richard M Mitchell and Heather W Culp, September, 2009 issue of the NCBA’s Elder Law section newsletter