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White & Allen Attorney Serves on Bankruptcy Panel

December 9, 2009

John C. Bircher III

NEW BERN, N.C.—White & Allen, P.A. attorney John C. Bircher III recently participated in the 31st Annual Bankruptcy Institute sponsored by the North Carolina Bar Association in Asheville.

Bircher, who heads White & Allen’s New Bern office, served on a panel entitled Intersection of State Law and Bankruptcy dealing with bankruptcy law and its effect on important areas of state law, including construction, domestic relations and foreclosures.

 Bircher was accompanied on the panel by attorneys Franklin Drake of Raleigh and P. Wayne Sigmon of Gastonia.

Bircher noted, “With more and more bankruptcies occurring, bankruptcy attorneys are quite often faced with conflicts between state law and the Bankruptcy Code.”

Bircher received his undergraduate degree from UNC-Chapel Hill in criminal justice in 1992 and his law degree from the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University in 1997.

Bircher’s practice is concentrated in the areas of bankruptcy, government, civil litigation, creditors’ rights, federal administrative law, administrative hearings and appeals, business planning and business law.

He is licensed to practice before all North Carolina courts, and the Federal Court for all districts in North Carolina.  Additionally, he is a member of the panel of Chapter 7 Trustees for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. 

White & Allen, P.A. is a full-service law firm with offices in Kinston, New Bern, Snow Hill and Goldsboro. The firm has offered a wide range of legal services to Eastern North Carolina since 1927.  Its practice includes emphases in bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, civil litigation, personal injury, commercial law, corporate law, criminal law, elder law, employee benefits, employment law, estate planning and administration, family law, health care law, real estate and tax planning.