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Practice focuses on Commercial Litigation, Bankruptcy and Employment
Law in State and Federal jurisdictions
- Born
Norfolk, Virginia; 1963
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Admitted Virginia Bar, 1991; North Carolina Bar, 1992
PRACTICE
AREAS
EDUCATION
- Washington
& Lee University (B.A. cum laude, 1985)
- Washington
& Lee University (J.D. 1991); Burks Scholar
EXPERIENCE
- Substantial
experience in federal practice
- Began
legal career with two successive one-year appointments as a law
clerk, first to United States Bankruptcy Judge A. Thomas Small,
Jr. in Raleigh, North Carolina, and then to United States District
Judge Malcolm J. Howard in Greenville, North Carolina
- Began
private practice of law in 1993 in Roanoke, Virginia, focusing on
bankruptcy and creditor's rights
- Substantial
experience representing debtors, creditors and trustees in a wide
variety of matters in bankruptcy court and on appeal
- Joined
Pender & Coward in 1997; regularly appears in federal courts
of the Eastern District of Virginia
- Has
represented local governments and private sector employers in a
number of employment discrimination cases as well as representing
creditors in matters ranging from simple consumer cases to business
matters and adversary proceedings
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Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Reserve; commands the
5th Battalion (Civil Affairs/Psychological Operations), 108th Regiment,
at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
LEGAL
AFFILIATIONS
- Virginia
Beach Bar Association
- Virginia
State Bar
- Federal
Bar Association
- North
Carolina State Bar
COMMUNITY
INVOLVEMENT
- St.
Nicholas Catholic Church
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