Betsy Johnson Burn is a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP who is a Certified Specialist in Bankruptcy/Debtor-Creditor Law, a distinction awarded by the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

 

A member of the South Carolina Bar, Ms. Burn is also a member of the American Bar Association, the Richland County Bar Association, the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association, the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys' Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, the South Carolina Bankruptcy Lawyers Association, and is a charter member of the Carolinas Network of the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation. She is Chair of the Planning Committee for the Annual Seminar of the South Carolina Bankruptcy Law Association, 2008 and 2009.

 

Ms. Burn is co-author of a chapter on South Carolina exemption law in the Bankruptcy Exemption Manual: West's Bankruptcy Series (West Group, 2007). In 2006 she co-authored a chapter on foreclosure and bankruptcy in the South Carolina Foreclosure Law Manual published by the SC Bar. Before joining the Firm, Ms. Burn worked for a manufacturing company and a telecommunications company in export sales and marketing prior to attending law school.

 

In 2000, Ms. Burn earned a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of South Carolina School of Law where she was a member of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal and served as philanthropy chair for Phi Delta Phi. While in law school, Ms. Burn worked as a research assistant to visiting professor James J. White of the University of Michigan School of Law, assisting him with editing and revising the Uniform Commercial Code Fifth Edition Hornbook Series by James J. White and Robert S. Summers. Ms. Burn's work centered on the impact of Revised Article Nine of the UCC on the creation and perfection of security interests. Ms. Burn earned a Master of International Business Studies from the University of South Carolina in 1993 and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, with honors, from Agnes Scott College in 1991.