EXPERIENCE      

Practice includes representation of institutional and individual clients in state and federal courts in commercial and bankruptcy litigation.  Bankruptcy litigation experience includes representation of creditors in preference actions, cash collateral hearings, motions to lift stay, for adequate protection, and for payment of administrative claims.  Clients include several student loan guaranty and servicing agencies, national logistics company involved in several Chapter 11 actions filed by its customers, and key employees of broadcasting company.  Practice includes successful defense of dozens of trials of adversary proceedings before the United States Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern, Northern and Central Districts of California, and successful appeals to the United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit and to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Lecturer: "Introduction to Collection Law in California," Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Bankruptcy and Voluntary Workouts, May 2000, May 2001.

Partial List of Reported Opinions: Drysdale v. Educational Credit Mgmt. Corp. (In re Drysdale), 248 B.R. 386 (9th Cir. B.A.P. 2000), aff’d 248 F. 3d 1170 (9th Cir. 2001); Educational Credit Mgmt. Corp. v. Nys (In re Nys), 446 F.3d 938 (9th Cir. 2006); Educational Credit Mgmt. Corp. v. Coleman (In re Coleman), 560 F.3d 1000 (9th Cir. 2009); Educational Credit Mgmt. Corp. v. Pope (In re Pope), 308 B.R. 55 (N.D.Cal. 2004); Virgin v. Sallie Mae, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 45663 (E.D. Cal. 2007); Davies v. Sallie Mae, Inc., 168 Cal. App. 4th 1086 (2008); East v. Educational Credit Mgmt. Corp. (In re East) 270 B.R. 485 (Bankr. E.D. Cal. 2001); Naranjo v. Educational Credit Mgmt. Corp. (In re Naranjo), 261 B.R. 248 (Bankr. E.D. Cal. 2001); Fuller v. Dept. of Educ. (In re Fuller), 296 B.R. 813 (Bankr. N.D. 2003).

Expertise in commercial and bankruptcy litigation.  Commercial litigation practice included actions to appoint receivers, contract and other business disputes, products liability and construction defect cases, and real estate and insurance coverage disputes.  Jury trial experience included successful defense of chemical manufacturer against wrongful death toxic tort claim.  Bankruptcy practice included representation of creditors in trials of adversary proceedings, cash collateral hearings, motions for adequate protection, and motions to lift the automatic stay, plan confirmation hearings, and motions to convert or dismiss.  Lecturer, “Litigating Nondischargeable Student Loans: A Lender’s Perspective,” Barristers Club, October 1997.

 

Experience in all aspects of complex multi-party litigation including jury trials.  Represented automobile manufacturers, pesticide and other chemical manufacturers and suppliers against both individual and mass toxic tort claims. 

EDUCATION

The University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with Honors, 1987.  Phi Delta Phi Academic Honor Society; Dean's Award of Distinction: Highest Grade in Evidence.

Wesleyan University, Bachelor of Arts in History, 1983.  Phi Beta Kappa.

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