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Chelsea focuses her practice on representing plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of complex civil litigation matters. With extensive experience in real estate litigation, she represents clients in a wide range of property-related disputes, including commercial lease disputes, municipal entitlement challenges, and special-use permitting matters. Chelsea also represents financial institutions in complex consumer actions, brokerage firms facing regulatory investigations and commercial disputes, and businesses in personal injury matters. Her practice spans the full life cycle of litigation, from pre-suit negotiations through trial preparation, and she has a proven track record of achieving favorable outcomes at every stage.

Among her notable achievements, Chelsea obtained summary judgment against a municipality, resulting in a multimillion-dollar recovery for her client, and secured dismissal of a state board of contractors complaint against a home services company, preserving its permit to operate. She has deep experience managing voluminous discovery in high-stakes matters, preparing clients and witnesses for trial, and negotiating favorable resolutions before and after litigation begins.

  • Overturned a municipality’s denial of real estate developer’s master plan approval after a multiday hearing involving multiple witnesses.
  • Upheld a national restaurant operator’s zoning and property rights on appeal from a municipal administrative decision.
  • Representing a public utility in land use and tort disputes.
  • Representing national real estate developers before quasi-judicial bodies.
  • Representing a national grocery store chain in contract disputes.
  • Represented national insurance companies in both affirming and challenging public contract awards.
  • Represented a national bank in class action regarding mortgage forbearances.
  • Obtained one of the year’s largest summary judgment awards in North Carolina federal courts for national company in contract dispute.
  • Obtained victory in the North Carolina Supreme Court on behalf of a public utility regarding easement rights.
  • Represented a bank and loan servicer in defeating class allegations in a case involving California consumer protection statutes.
  • Represented restaurants and restaurant management companies in alleged class action.
  • Pathfinder Program, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity

Chelsea focuses her practice on representing plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of complex civil litigation matters. With extensive experience in real estate litigation, she represents clients in a wide range of property-related disputes, including commercial lease disputes, municipal entitlement challenges, and special-use permitting matters. Chelsea also represents financial institutions in complex consumer actions, brokerage firms facing regulatory investigations and commercial disputes, and businesses in personal injury matters. Her practice spans the full life cycle of litigation, from pre-suit negotiations through trial preparation, and she has a proven track record of achieving favorable outcomes at every stage.

Among her notable achievements, Chelsea obtained summary judgment against a municipality, resulting in a multimillion-dollar recovery for her client, and secured dismissal of a state board of contractors complaint against a home services company, preserving its permit to operate. She has deep experience managing voluminous discovery in high-stakes matters, preparing clients and witnesses for trial, and negotiating favorable resolutions before and after litigation begins.

  • Overturned a municipality’s denial of real estate developer’s master plan approval after a multiday hearing involving multiple witnesses.
  • Upheld a national restaurant operator’s zoning and property rights on appeal from a municipal administrative decision.
  • Representing a public utility in land use and tort disputes.
  • Representing national real estate developers before quasi-judicial bodies.
  • Representing a national grocery store chain in contract disputes.
  • Represented national insurance companies in both affirming and challenging public contract awards.
  • Represented a national bank in class action regarding mortgage forbearances.
  • Obtained one of the year’s largest summary judgment awards in North Carolina federal courts for national company in contract dispute.
  • Obtained victory in the North Carolina Supreme Court on behalf of a public utility regarding easement rights.
  • Represented a bank and loan servicer in defeating class allegations in a case involving California consumer protection statutes.
  • Represented restaurants and restaurant management companies in alleged class action.
  • Pathfinder Program, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity

Top areas of focus

  • Participant, Saturday Lawyer Program, Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation
  • Department of In-House Counsel, Duke Energy Corp., 2016

Education

  • University of North Carolina School of Law, J.D., with honors, 2018, recipient, Gressman-Pollitt Oral Advocacy Award; coach, Winners of 2018 Southern Regional Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., with honors, 2012

Bar Admissions

  • Georgia
  • North Carolina