Home Owners Sue Bank of America

Home Owners Sue Bank of America

Blue Stephens & Fellers LLP and the Law Office of James C. White, P.C. have filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Bank of America, alleging that from 2007 through 2009, the bank fraudulently marketed its deceptively-named No Fee Mortgage Plus (NFMP) loan product to borrowers across the country.  If you have information

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Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy can offer a new beginning.  Nearly 1.6 million people filed for bankruptcy last year; may were people who lost their job, went through divorce, or face crushing medical bills. We are Durham bankruptcy lawyers, representing people in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 Bankruptcies across North Carolina. Bankruptcy is a

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Lawsuits & Business Disputes

Lawsuits & Business Disputes

We want our clients to win, whether by bringing a lawsuit or, through creative negotiation, avoiding one. We are litigation attorneys who help a wide range of clients solve difficult and potentially costly business and personal disputes. Read

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A Cost-Effective Alternative to the Big Firm

The Law Office of James C. White P.C. offers a cost-effective alternative to the big law firm for individuals and small to mid-sized businesses. We combine sophisticated litigation and bankruptcy skills with a consulting-based approach to solving client problems and a small firm focus on clients' needs.

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Crafting Solutions to Complex Legal Problems

We represent small and mid-sized businesses in courts in Durham, Raleigh, and across North Carolina, and have acted as local counsel for national corporations. We have represented individuals as creditors in bankruptcy, in lawsuits involving investor disputes and consumer and lender issues, and we are counsel in a proposed nationwide mortgage-related class action. We try to solve our clients' business disputes in a sensible, cost-effective manner.

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A Range of Industries & Areas of Law

We have worked with companies in wholesaling, technology, service, finance, health care, real estate, insurance and construction. We have handled breach-of-contract disputes, shareholder disputes, partnership disputes, securities litigation, lender issues, consumer law, construction litigation, business dissolution, trademark and copyright matters.

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Helping People & Businesses through Bankruptcy

As Durham and Raleigh small firm bankruptcy lawyers representing both debtors and creditors, we provide individualized service and attention to each of our clients. Our clients meet with and have their questions answered by an attorney, not a paralegal. Our combination of bankruptcy and litigation skills allows us to pursue overly aggressive creditors, or help with other issues that a traditional bankruptcy lawyer would not usually address.

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Practice Areas

Our practice is focused on helping clients navigate crisis, whether a lawsuit or business dispute or insolvency and bankruptcy

  • CIVIL LIGITATION
  • breach-of-contract disputes
  • shareholder disputes
  • partnership disputes
  • securities litigation
  • intellectual property disputes
  • consumer law
  • construction litigation
  • state and federal appeals
  • BANKRUPTCY
  • representing individual debtors
  • Chapter 7
  • Chapter 11
  • Chapter 13
  • bankruptcy litigation

Our Team

  • Jim White

    Jim White is a Durham bankruptcy and litigation lawyer who has handled a broad mix of disputes ranging from complex business litigation to a large class action to consumer and business bankruptcies. He has represented investors in investment-related lawsuits, successfully defended and prosecuted trademark and copyright disputes and has assisted real estate companies in navigating the difficulties of receivership and foreclosure. He was formerly a business litigator at the firm of Moore & Van Allen, an AmLaw 200 firm.

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  • Michelle Walker

    Michelle Walker graduated in 2010 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, where she served as an Article and Note Editor of the First Amendment Law Review and received a Gressman-Pollitt Award for Outstanding Oral Advocacy as Best Appellee.

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