Christy Myatt Earns Top Honor From NC Board Of Legal Specialization

Greensboro, NC - Christine L. Myatt, a Member of Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier in Greensboro, has been awarded the first annual Howard L. Gum Service Award by the North Carolina Board of Legal Specialization.

Myatt, who chairs the firm's bankruptcy and creditor rights group, was recognized for her service to the Legal Specialization program in North Carolina and for her outstanding leadership as a Board Certified Specialist in Business and Consumer Bankruptcy Law.

"We are all very proud of Christy," said Leighton Lord, board chairman of Nexsen Pruet. "Winning the inaugural award says a lot about how respected she is in her practice area. She sets the bar of excellence high - and then keeps raising it. That’s what true specialists do."

Myatt has two decades of general law practice experience, including 23 years in bankruptcy, workout, and receivership. She chairs the North Carolina Bar Association's Bankruptcy Section; is a former chair of the Bar Association's Board of Legal Specialization and Business Law Curriculum Committee; is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Middle District of North Carolina Bankruptcy Institute, and the Turnaround Management Association; and serves on the Rules Committee of the Middle District Bankruptcy Court.

Additionally, she has been named a North Carolina "Super Lawyer" in a Law & Politics survey and was included among Business - North Carolina's "Legal Elite."

Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier, PLLC is one of the largest law firms in the Carolinas, with more than 170 attorneys and offices in Charlotte and Greensboro, N.C. and in Columbia, Charleston, Greenville, Hilton Head, and Myrtle Beach, S.C. Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier provides a broad range of legal services to the business community and represents companies and other entities in local, state, national, and international venues.