The Firm was founded on February 1, 1994, and currently consists of attorneys, paralegals, and administrative staff from various educational institutions from around the world. We are a diverse organization, with minorities and women participating at all levels of the Firm as owners, attorneys, paralegals, and administrative support staff. The Firm represents clients throughout North Carolina and South Carolina, including other areas in the Southeast. We are headquartered at 4309 Emperor Boulevard, Suite 225, Durham, North Carolina 27703, just five miles from Raleigh-Durham International Airport. A second office location is at 1201 Main Street, Suite 1980, Columbia, South Carolina, 29201. Practice areas for the Firm include affordable housing and community economic development law, business (corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships), church law, civil litigation, colleges and universities, commercial real estate, employment law, low income housing tax credits, municipal finance, new markets tax credits, historic preservation tax credits, FHA insured financings, nonprofit organizations, public housing law, and tax law. Teamwork between the attorneys and staff is the key to providing the best possible representation and service to clients in each of the Firm’s practice areas. Each year in June, the Firm closes for two days to provide the volunteers necessary for The Banks Foundation’s Annual Celebrity Golf Tournament, the proceeds from which provide down payment assistance for first time homebuyers who have matriculated from public assistance to private homeownership, and we make it a point to stay current with proposed legislative and regulatory changes that may impact our clients.