Bankruptcy 101: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About Bankruptcy

In this economy, most attorneys — no matter what their practice area — have established relationships with clients who are now either in financial difficulty, or are affected by someone else’s financial difficulties. Divorce attorneys, personal injury attorneys, real estate attorneys, employment law attorneys, and construction law attorneys are just a few of the [...]

Primer for Distressed Homeowners: Part 1 of 3

With the jobless recovery hitting the Charlotte region particularly hard, we’re getting a steady stream of calls asking for help preventing home foreclosures, forced sales and sheriff’s sales, and facilitating short sales.

Bankruptcy Trustee Basics

In addition to my private practice, I serve as a Chapter 7 Trustee for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of North Carolina.  Few people know what this means and how this service helps my private practice clients, so here’s a primer.
What’s a bankruptcy trustee?
Chapter 7 Trustees (also known as panel trustees) [...]

Charlotte Bankruptcy in the Headlines

When you’ve been around as long as I have, you call things as you see them.  Maybe that’s why reporters call me to comment on high-profile bankruptcy cases.
Charlotte’s 210 Trade files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
In case you missed my 2-second TV debut last week on WSOC, here’s a link to what I said about the 210 [...]

Speaking on Business Bankruptcy

Unfortunately, lawyers have a reputation for being “all about the money.”  Few people realize the pro bono (free) work so many of us do for those unable to pay.  This week my partner Rick Mitchell and I will be speaking (for FREE) in Charlotte on business bankruptcy for NC LEAP , the premier provider of [...]

Congrats, Justice Teaching Fellows!

Giving back to the community is one of my passions, along with the law.
That’s why I was so pleased to chair the NC Bar’s Law-Related Education Advisory Committee last year and co-chair the committee that developed The North Carolina Bar Association’s third Justice Teaching Institute (JTI) this year.
Hosted by the Charlotte School of Law and [...]