Will Esser Email & Phone Number

I chair Parker Poe’s Financial Services Industry Team. My practice focuses primarily on commercial litigation, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, foreclosures, loan workouts, and loan sales. I have successfully represented lenders, loan servicers, landlords, municipal governments, creditors’ committees, receivers, and investment companies in federal and state court lawsuits, bankruptcies, arbitrations, and restructurings. I have a particular emphasis on counsel involving real estate, construction loans, mortgage servicing, title insurance claims, lease and development disputes, and appraisal issues. I also was an initial drafter of the North Carolina Commercial Receivership Act. I am admitted to the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fourth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits, as well as each of the federal district and bankruptcy courts in North Carolina. I am certified by the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission (NCDRC) as a Superior Court mediator. Prior to joining Parker Poe, I served as a law clerk for the Honorable Paul J. Kelly on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.I am a passionate believer in pro bono work and am a member of Parker Poe’s Pro Bono Committee. Much of my pro bono practice is focused on appellate advocacy, including filing amicus briefs in First Amendment cases before the United States Supreme Court and representing abused and neglected children in dozens of appeals before the North Carolina Supreme Court and North Carolina Court of Appeals through the Guardian ad Litem program.

Listed skills include Commercial Litigation, Bankruptcy, Litigation, Foreclosures, and 4 others.

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  Financial Services Industry Team Leader

  Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein Llp

  Sep 2000 - Present - Charlotte, North Carolina

  Creditors Rights and Bankruptcy Practice Group - Litigation Department