• Asset Protection Planning 
• Domestic and International Estate Planning
• Corporate and Partnership Law
• International Tax Law

• American Bar Association
• Real Property Probate & Trust Section
•   Committee on Asset Protection Planning (Internet Coordinator)
•   Committee on International Estate Planning
•  Tax Section
•   Committee on Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers
•   Committee on Partnership Tax
• International Tax Planning Association
• North Carolina Bar Association
•  Ad hoc committee to revise North Carolina business association laws (1999)

He received his A.B., with Distinction, in Russian and Slavic Linguistics  (Phi Beta Kappa), as well as his M.A. in Slavic Linguistics, and his J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is a Fellow of the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies. Chris received his Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Estate Planning from the University of Miami.  

PUBLICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS (PARTIAL LIST):

• "Nonprofit LLCs: Time for a New Experiment?" LLC ADVISOR, April 1998
• "Tax Choice of Entity for New Small Business LLCs," LLC REPORTER, July/August 1998
• "What Role Do LLCs Have in Funding Nonprofit Tax-Exempt Organizations?," JOURNAL OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES, Winter 1998
• "Tax Consequences of Charging Orders: Is the 'KO by the K-1' KO'd by the Code?" ASSET PROTECTION JOURNAL, Winter 1999
• "Re Heginbotham's Petition: Manx Fraudulent Transfer Law Does Not Apply to Potential Future Creditors," JOURNAL OF ASSET PROTECTION, January/February 2000.
• Publisher, The Riser Report on Asset Protection & Estate Planning
• Author, The Offshore Truth (forthcoming in 2001), Axius Publishing
• LLPs and LLCs, Professional Education Systems, Inc., annual continuing professional education course for lawyers and accountants, 1998- present
• Will Drafting and Construction Problems; Estate Planning, Wake Forest University School of Law, annual continuing professional education courses for lawyers, 1998-present