BIOGRAPHY

Mr. Murray, the senior partner in the firm, holds an "AV" peer rating from Martindale Hubbell. He focuses his practice on Business, Bankruptcy, Estate Planning, and Taxation. Mr. Murray currently serves as a Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee, also helps private clients with simple Chapter 7 bankruptcies, and works with clients on complex creditor work-outs, bankruptcy liquidations, and bankruptcy reorganizations/restructurings as well. Mr. Murray is held in high esteem by the bankruptcy courts in North Carolina, and by his bankruptcy bar peers.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Murray was a trial attorney in the Office of the Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in Washington D.C. Mr. Murray later worked for the IRS in the Office of the District Counsel in Greensboro. While working in D.C., he earned his L.L.M. degree in taxation, an advanced law degree. Mr. Murray helps clients in tax trouble, and also provides tax-planning services.

Mr. Murray's tax-planning expertise provides depth across many areas of the law, including estate planning and probate. Mr. Murray provides estate-planning services in simple estate matters as well as in the most complex estate planning situations.

Mr. Murray also serves business clients with a wide range of business services, both as general and special corporate counsel.