Honors and Awards:

• Business NC’s Legal Elite 2011, Legal Elite -- Bankruptcy , Business North Carolina, 2011

Special Licenses/Certifications:

• Licensed to practice in Kentucky, 1997 (inactive)

Bar/Professional Activity:

• American Bankruptcy Institute; American Bar Association; Commercial Law League of America; Kentucky Bar Association Mecklenburg County Bar – Member, Continuing Legal Education Committee, 2007-present, Co-Chair, Continuing Legal Education Committee, 2008-2010, Member, Solo/Small Firm Section, 2011-present; North Carolina Bar Association – Nominations Committee (term expiring June, 2012), Member, Lawyers in the Schools Committee/Law-Related Advisory Committee, 2002-present, Co-Chair, Lawyers in the Schools Committee’s Justice Teaching Institute Subcommittee, 2004-2006, Lawyers in the Schools Committee, 2006-2007, Chair, Law-Related Education Advisory Committee, 2007-2009); North Carolina Bar Association – Bankruptcy Section Council (term expiring June, 2013), Co-Managing Editor, NCBA Bankruptcy Practice Manual, Seventh Ed. (to be published Fall 2012); North Carolina State Bar National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees – Associate member; Western District of North Carolina Annual Bankruptcy Update CLE – course planner, 2008, 2009, 2010; co-chair, planning committee – 2010-2011.

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Legal Aid/Legal Services of Southern Piedmont volunteer pro bono attorney, 2010

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Co-managing editor, NCBA's Bankruptcy Practice Manual, Seventh ed., to be published in 2012; “Bankruptcy 101: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About Bankruptcy,” Mecklenburg County Bar Continuing Legal Education seminar, 2/19/10; “Working with Clients Facing Economic Crisis,” as part of a Mecklenburg County Bar Continuing Legal Education seminar titled “Hard Times: How to Survive and Thrive in the Economic Recession,” 4/17/09, given again as part of the Mecklenburg County Bar’s Sole Practitioner/Small Firm Section meeting on 5/7/09; “Small Business Bankruptcies: The Dream is Dead,” authored by Richard M. Mitchell and Heather W. Culp, Mecklenburg County Bar newsletter, 9/08; “Asset Planning and Protection,”  authored by Richard M. Mitchell and Heather W. Culp, NCBA’s Elder Law section newsletter, 9/08.