Frank Drake
Franklin Drake has practiced in the Raleigh, North Carolina law firm of Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers for 25 years, following a sixteen-year practice specializing in creditor's rights, bankruptcy, and repossession law in Louisville, Kentucky.
Mr. Drake graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1975 with a B.A. with honors and with his law degree in 1978. He has practiced in North Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia and the federal courts of southern Indiana. For the last 38 years in 40 states, he has lectured regularly at practical training courses, bankruptcy and regulatory compliance programs and webinars. Sponsors include NASCUS, CUNA, NAFCU, ACUIA, AACUL, NCUMA, state regulators and more than two dozen state credit union leagues across the US.
For the past 40 years, Frank has advised and represented most of the major secured and unsecured financers on secured lending, bankruptcy and regulatory compliance matters. He especially enjoys guiding his clients around compliance pitfalls and how NOT to get sued.
