Areas of Practice

• DUI/DWI
• Criminal Law
• Traffic Violations

Bar Admissions

• North Carolina, 2000
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of North Carolina, 2000
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 2005

Education

Campbell University School of Law, Raleigh, North Carolina

• J.D.

Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina

• Bachelor’s of Business Administration cum laude – 1997
• Major: Accounting

Litigation Percentage

100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Languages

English

Professional Associations and Memberships

• University City Kiwanis Club – Greenville, NC, Board Member, 2005 – Present
• Pitt County Criminal Defense Bar, President, 2007 – 2010
• Pitt County Bar Association, President, 2008 – 2009
• Eastern NC Inn of Court, Member

Classes/Seminars – Presented At

• Co-Chaird- “DWI Legal Defense” seminar for the N.C. Advocates for Justice – January 2019
• Chaired the DWI Defense seminar in Raleigh – February 2018
• Presented the 4th Amendment Detention and Arrest legal update at the NC Advocates for Justice Annual Convention – June 2018
• Criminal Law – Search & Seizure Annual Update, N.C. BLET, 2002 – 2004
• Business Law, Pitt Community College, 2004 – 2005
• “The ABC’s of the new DWI Law” , ECU Continuing Education for Attorneys, February 2007
• Fighting the Magic Number – How to Beat the .08 Presumption under the new DWI Statute, North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, December 2007 in Greensboro, N.C.; February 2008 in Wilmington, N.C.
• Basics of the new breath-testing machine in N.C. – the EC-IR II, Eastern N.C. Mediation Center Continuing Education for Attorneys, April 2008
• DWI and District Court Practice, ECU Continuing Education for Attorneys, September 2008
• DWI – The One-Sided Appeal, Superior Court CLE, N.C.Advocates for Justice, Greensboro, NC, May 2010
• Search Warrants, Searches, and Seizures at Home and on the Road, Annual Summer Convention, N.C. Advocates for Justice, Wilmington, NC June 2010
• DWI Law: Winning Cases Through Teaching Judges and Prosecutors, N.C. Advocates for Justice, Greensboro, NC February 2011 and Wilmington, NC March 2011
• “Checkpoints: Where are the papers?” NC Advocates for Justice Annual Convention, Wilmington, NC – June 2011
• “Megan’s Law and other changes to D.W.I. Law” – Seminar Chair – NC Advocates for Justice, Greensboro, NC – November 2011
• “Blood Test Analysis & Chain of Custody” – Criminal Masters Seminar, NC Advocates for Justice Annual Convention, Wilmington, NC – June 2012
• “Search and Seizure”, Masters of D.W.I. Seminar, NC Advocates for Justice, Wrightsville Beach, NC – November 2012
• Fall 2013 – “Checkpoints and Arrests,”
• Masters of DWI, Winston-Salem, NC February 2014
• Chairman, “DWI 101” CLE, Winston-Salem, NC June 2014
• Co-chair, NCAJ Summer Statewide Convention, Sunset Beach, NC September 2014
• “4th Amendment Stops & Checkpoint issues,” NC/SC DWI/DUI trial lawyers seminar, Myrtle Beach, SC.
• Chairman – “DWI Masters” CLE – Greensboro, NC February 2015
• Chairman – “DWI Defense” CLE – Raleigh, NC February 2016
• DWI legal update – Greater Charlotte Defense Bar CLE – Salisbury, NC August 2016

Past Employment Positions

• Office of the District Attorney – Pitt County, Assistant District Attorney, 2001 – 2005
• Kurtz & Blum, PLLC, Raleigh, NC, Associate Attorney, 2000 – 2001
• Pitt County Bar President , 2008 – 2009
• Pitt County Criminal Defense Bar
  • Member: 2005 – Present
  • President: 2007 – 2010