Lisa Sumner is a partner at Poyner Spruill LLP where she leads the firm's Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy attorneys.  Ms. Sumner represents secured and unsecured creditors in bankruptcy, defends bank-related litigation and counsels members of the bankruptcy bar in avoidance and defense of legal malpractice claims.  Ms. Sumner has practiced and is licensed in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.  She is President-Elect of the Carolinas division of the Turnaround Management Association, active in the Business Bankruptcy Subcommittee of the ABA Section of Business Law, and serves on the North Carolina Bar Association's Bankruptcy Council.  She received her JD from Duke University School of Law in 1994.