Heather W. Culp
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 W. Culp
Practice Areas: Bankruptcy; Debtor and Creditor Rights; Litigation; Construction Law
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
Law School: University of Kentucky, J.D., 1997
College: Miami University, B.A., English Literature, cum laude, with departmental honors, 1994
Member: Mecklenburg County (Member, Continuing Legal Education Committee, 2007-2008; Co-Chair, Continuing Legal Education Committee, 2008–), North Carolina (Lawyers in the Schools Committee, 2002-2004; 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), Kentucky and American Bar Associations; North Carolina State Bar; American Bankruptcy Institute; Bankruptcy section of the NCBA; the National Assocation of Bankruptcy Trustees; and the Commercial Law League of America.
Born: Killeen, Texas, March 1, 1973
Community service past, present and future:
Since moving to Charlotte in 2002 I have concentrated on volunteering for the North Carolina Bar Association, and have focused on the Bar’s efforts to provide North Carolina students with information about their rights and responsibilities as North Carolina citizens/residents and as United States citizens/residents, and also careers in the law.
I co-chair the Continuing Legal Education committee for the Mecklenburg County Bar Association and plan and speak at CLE courses for attorneys. I plan the annual update seminars for the Western District of NC Bankruptcy bar (2008, 2009, 2010).
Someday, I’d like to find time to work for causes to fight poverty and homelessness, and for animal rights, but for now I just donate money. There are only so many hours in the day.
Recent speaking engagements and articles
- “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 of the Mecklenburg County Bar newsletter
- “Asset Planning and Protection,” authored by Richard M Mitchell and Heather W Culp, to be published in the 11/09 issue of the NCBA’s Elder Law section newsletter
