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CRITICAL information about bankruptcy restructuring during this financial crisis
SPECIAL GUEST: ANDREW M. THALER
Andrew M. Thaler is the founding member of Thaler Law Firm PLLC. With over 30 years of experience in the bankruptcy, insolvency, and restructuring fields, his practice focuses on a wide spectrum of matters, including representation of debtors, creditors, trustees, and creditors’ committees in commercial chapter 11 and 7 cases, consumer chapter 7 and 13 cases, and various situated parties in complex bankruptcy litigation and insolvency matters. He has represented clients and handled matters in diverse industries, including professional and service businesses, manufacturing and retail companies, and financial institutions.
As a federally appointed Chapter 7 Panel Trustee for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York since 1990, Mr. Thaler has presided over twenty thousand bankruptcy cases. In addition to his bankruptcy practice, he also serves as a mediator for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York and the Mediation Panel of the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court, Nassau County.
Mr. Thaler is active in the Nassau County Bar Association, where he has served as a member of the Board of Directors, former Dean of the Nassau Academy of Law, and Chair of the Bankruptcy Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution Committees. He has lectured on bankruptcy and insolvency topics for the Nassau Academy of Law, the National Business Institute, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, and First American Title Insurance Company of New York. Mr. Thaler is a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Bankruptcy & Corporate Reorganization. He is Past President (2010) of The Theodore Roosevelt American Inn of Court. In 2003, Mr. Thaler received the Partner in Justice Pro Bono Award from the Nassau/Suffolk Law Services Committee for his pro bono service to the community.
Mr. Thaler is rated “AV Preeminent” by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest level in professional excellence, and was recognized by L.I. Pulse Magazine in 2010 – 2016 as one of the region’s “Top Legal Eagles.” Mr. Thaler was named to the Super Lawyers list for the New York Metro area for excellence in bankruptcy in 2012 and each year thereafter to the present.
