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KENDALL B. COFFEY is a partner with Coffey Burlington Attorneys at Law. Mr. Coffey is a guest legal analyst for CNBC, CNN, FOX, Headline News, MSNBC and Telemundo. He also provides commentary for CBS-4, CNN International, the Canadian Broadcasting Company and CNN "Coffey Talk" (2002-2005). Mr. Coffey is a regular lecturer in trial skills and substantive law. He is a former adjunct faculty member for Florida Constitutional Law at the University of Miami School of Law and for Trial Practice at University of Miami School of Law. Mr. Coffey earned his B.S. degree, with honors, and his J.D. degree, with high honors, from the University of Florida. SANDRA H.W. HANKIN is a title attorney for the Professional Title and Abstract Company of Florida, where she has worked in the areas of creditor rights, foreclosures, bankruptcies, homeowner and condominium associations, and general litigation, including extensive real estate litigation. After watching thousands of dollars due to second-mortgage holding clients disappear to former owners and third parties who got to a judge before the mortgagees she co-wrote "Disbursement of Surplus Proceeds From a Foreclosure Sale - The Urban Myth of the Race to the Courthouse," (The Florida Bar Journal, Volume LXXVIII, No. 7, page 45). Ms. Hankin graduated, cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School in Boston. JOEL L. TABAS founded Tabas, Freedman, Soloff, Miller & Brown, P.A. in 1988. His primary practice areas include creditor's rights, bankruptcy litigation and business reorganization. Mr. Tabas has been a Chapter 7 Panel Trustee in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida since 1992. He also regularly serves as a Chapter 11 Trustee, court-appointed examiner and as receiver in state and federal courts. Mr. Tabas is board certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification and has been since 1995. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree and Masters degree from the University of Rochester and his Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Miami. While at the University of Miami, Mr. Tabas was a member of the Order of the Coif, and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Inter-American Law Review. He was admitted to practice in Florida in 1985, and is also admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Middle districts of Florida and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. Mr. Tabas is a member (and past President) of the Bankruptcy Bar Association for the Southern District of Florida. He has operated commercial airlines, real estate companies, hotels, restaurants and retailers. In conjunction with his work as a receiver and an examiner, Mr. Tabas has been called upon to prepare feasibility studies on the effectiveness of manufacturing and cost accounting controls and determine the viability of going concerns. The report he prepared in one such appointment resulted in one of the only successful bankruptcy criminal prosecutions in the Southern District of Florida. Mr. Tabas also has served as both counsel and as an expert consultant in complex malpractice cases involving allegations of professional malfeasance in bankruptcy against attorneys and accountants. Since 2007, he has been named to the "Florida Super Lawyers" list compiled by Law & Politics magazine, which recognizes Florida's leading lawyers as chosen by their colleagues.
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