Representative Matters & Cases

• Consulting on all aspects of chapter 7 and chapter 13 consumer bankruptcy cases on behalf of both debtors and creditors, as well as related debt workout and financial planning matters
• Consulting for small businesses with regard to debt workout and reorganization, including chapter 11 and chapter 12 cases, and assistance with corporate formation, governance and transactional matters
• Appointed to serve as chapter 7 trustee in over 4,000 consumer and business cases filed to date in the Central District of Illinois, and served as counsel to the trustee, debtors or creditors in over 100 cases
• Served as counsel of record in over 1,000 cases representing debtors, creditors or trustees in chapter 7, 11, 12 and 13 bankruptcy cases filed in the Northern District of Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and other federal district courts where special (pro hac vice) admission was granted
• Coordinated writing of amicus brief on behalf of national trustee organization in case supporting petitioner before the U.S. Supreme Court whose position was upheld
• Represented local real estate bar associations in writing amicus brief supporting plaintiff’s position in appeal pending before state supreme court whose position was upheld
• Represented creditor in bankruptcy court’s decision finding a mortgage valid and enforceable over a debtor’s claims that the mortgage was defective on account of an incomplete acknowledgment form in the mortgage
• Represented appellee state attorney regulatory agency in federal appeals court decision affirming lower courts’ holdings that attorney disciplinary cost assessments were sanctions not dischargeable in bankruptcy
• Represented media chapter 11 debtor with over $20 million in annual revenues at recent peak with obtaining confirmation of entity’s reorganization plan
• Represented chapter 13 debtor in successful motion to compel payment of postpetition tax claim by trustee