Attorney Profile

Charles D. Luckey Shareholder and Certified Mediator Phone: (336) 293-9012 Fax: (336) 293-9080 Email: vCard:

Chip returned in early April 2009 from a one-year assignment in Baghdad as Chief, Office of Security Cooperation, Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq, Operation Iraqi Freedom. Shortly thereafter, on May 14, 2009, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced that Chip was nominated by the President to be appointed to the rank of Major General in the United States Army. He has also been selected by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to serve as his Assistant for Reserve Matters. He began this assignment in Washington, DC on June 1, 2009. It is a two year tour-of-duty.

In his absence, the firm will continue to handle matters related to Chip's areas of practice. Please contact Rebecca McNeely at (336) 293-9000 or  for questions regarding Chip's client matters and for new representation in the areas described below.

"Chip" Luckey joined the firm in 1991 after extended active duty tours with the United States Army as both an Infantry officer and a Judge Advocate. As one of the firm's litigators, Chip focuses his practice in the areas of domestic law, criminal defense, and commercial and environmental litigation.  A member of the North Carolina Bar Association's Family Law and Environmental Law Sections, Chip maintains a varied practice in both Federal and State Courts and has served as liaison counsel in complex CERCLA litigation involving in excess of 150 parties. He has also represented individual corporate defendants in Superfund litigation throughout the Eastern United States.  

He has significant experience with all aspects of family law including Custody, Support and Equitable Distribution issues, and has developed a balanced approach to the roles of advocate and counselor in a highly emotional field of practice. As a criminal defense lawyer focusing primarily on Federal practice, Chip has defended a wide variety of cases involving capital murder, bank robbery, narcotics distribution, money laundering, counterfeiting, and the illegal structuring of financial transactions. He has also had extensive experience in appellate work in both Federal and State courts to include petitions to the United States Supreme Court, where he is also admitted to practice. Additionally, as an environmental facilitator, he has substantial experience in working with local and state agencies to resolve environmental issues for private citizens, and in coordinating and implementing cost effective environmental remediation plans.  As a Certified Mediator, he is certified to mediate cases in North Carolina Superior Courts and for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. 

Since leaving Active Duty in the Army after the Gulf War, Chip has remained actively involved in the US Army Reserve. Having served since 2005 as a Brigadier General, he was nominated by the President in 2009 to the rank of Major General. His current assignment, as of June 1, 2009, is a two-year tour-of-duty in Washington, DC as Assistant for Reserve Matters to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Prior to that he served in Baghdad for a one year tour as the Chief, Office of Security Cooperation, Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq, Operation Iraqi Freedom. His prior assignments as a General Officer include: Commanding General of the 78th Operations Group in Fort Dix, New Jersey, and Deputy Commanding General, 81st Regional Readiness Command in Birmingham, Alabama. Chip is married and has three children. He speaks to a wide variety of audiences on a number of military-related issues.