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Experienced Bankruptcy Attorney Joins Nelson Mullins in Raleigh
RALEIGH – An experienced bankruptcy and creditors rights attorney has joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP's Raleigh office. Pamela Wachter McAfee joins the Firm as an attorney of counsel.
Ms. McAfee has extensive experience working with bankruptcy matters, having served as a staff attorney in the United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of North Carolina, before joining the Firm. She served as a staff attorney to the Honorable A. Thomas Small of the United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of North Carolina, from 2001 until his retirement in 2009. She served as the bankruptcy court liaison to the Local Rules Committee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina and as the secretary to the Local Rules Committee for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
Ms. McAfee has served as director of business development for a software company in Durham, N.C., and worked on litigation and corporate/commercial real estate teams at another North Carolina law firm before joining Nelson Mullins. She also served as judicial clerk to the Honorable J. Rich Leonard, United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of North Carolina.
She is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association Bankruptcy Section and was co-managing editor of the North Carolina Bankruptcy Practice Manual (6th edition, 2007). Ms. McAfee is the North Carolina founder and coordinator of the Credit Abuse Resistance Education Program (CARE).
She earned her Juris Doctor, with honors, from the University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1994, where she was a member of the Order of Barristers and the Holderness Moot Court. She received the American Jurisprudence Award in Legal Research and Writing and was treasurer of Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1991 from the University of Pennsylvania.
Established in 1897, Nelson Mullins has more than 400 attorneys and government relations professionals practicing from 12 office locations in the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia. For more information on the Firm, go to www.nelsonmullins.com, or call 803.255.9794.
