Seven Nexsen Pruet Attorneys Named Among North Carolina's "Super Lawyers"

GREENSBORO, NC – Seven attorneys in the Greensboro office of Nexsen Pruet, PLLC have been named among North Carolina’s “Super Lawyers” in a Law & Politics publication survey.

The objective of the Super Lawyers selection process is to create a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of outstanding attorneys that can be used as a resource to assist attorneys and clients in the search for legal counsel. Super Lawyers is a peer-nominated recognition based on practice work completed throughout 2007.

Recipients in their respective categories include:

Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights

Benjamin A. Kahn

Christine L. Myatt

 
Construction

R. Harper Heckman

David A. Senter

Family Law

Trudy A. Ennis

Real Estate

Margaret Shea Burnham

M. Jay DeVaney

Additionally, Burnham and Myatt were named to the publication’s “Top 50 Female Super Lawyers” list.

Burnham is a Board Certified Specialist in Real Property Law: Business, Commercial, and Industrial Transactions by the North Carolina State Bar; a certified mediator; a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers; councilor for the 18th Judicial District of the North Carolina State Bar; and a member of the state bar’s Board of Governors and former chair of its Real Property Section Council.

DeVaney is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers Board of Governors and a fellow of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys. He is also a former chair of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Real Property Section and a former member of the Board of Governors. He is a Board Certified Specialist in Real Property Law - Business, Commercial, and Industrial Transactions by the North Carolina State Bar.  He is also listed in Best Lawyers in America for real estate law and the “Legal Elite” by Business North Carolina Business, and is a member of Outstanding Lawyers of America.

 
Ennis is involved in CLE committees and activities of the North Carolina Bar Association and the Family Law Section of that organization. She is a Certified Mediator and has been named to the list of Best Lawyers in America in Family Law.

 
Heckman is a former chair of the North Carolina Bar’s Construction Law Section and is a member of the Contract Documents Steering Committee of the American Bar Association's Forum on the Construction Industry. Additionally, he has been included in the Triad Business Journal's "40 Leaders Under Forty" and was named among the “Legal Elite” by Business North Carolina.

Kahn is certified as a Specialist in Business and Consumer Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification and by the Board of Legal Specialization of the North Carolina State Bar. In addition, he has been named among North Carolina 's "Legal Elite" by Business North Carolina .

Myatt is a Certified Specialist in Bankruptcy Law by the Board of Legal Specialization of the North Carolina Bar and in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Bankruptcy Board of Certification. She chairs the North Carolina Bar’s Bankruptcy Section; is a former chair of the Bar's Board of Legal Specialization and Business Law Curriculum Committee; and was named among the “Legal Elite” by Business North Carolina .

Senter is a member of the Governing Committee of the American Bar Association’s Construction Forum and is a past member of the council of the North Carolina Bar’s Construction Law Section.  He is also a member of the Forum on the Construction Industry, the Tort and Insurance Practice Section, and the Litigation Section of the ABA , and is listed in Best Lawyers in America for construction law and among the “Legal Elite” by Business North Carolina.

Nexsen Pruet, PLLC is one of the largest law firms in the Carolinas, with more than 170 attorneys and offices in Charlotte and Greensboro, N.C. and in Columbia, Charleston, Greenville, Hilton Head, and Myrtle Beach, S.C. Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier provides a broad range of legal services to the business community and represents companies and other entities in local, state, national, and international venues. For further information, see www.nexsenpruet.com.