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JOHN COLLEN is a partner with Tressler LLP. He has devoted the last 30 years exclusively to practicing in the insolvency, bankruptcy and creditor's rights field, including extensive experience with foreclosures, work-outs and bankruptcies both on behalf lenders and borrowers. Mr. Collen is a member of the American College of Bankruptcy, and an adjunct law professor in the St. John's University Law School Bankruptcy LLM program in New York. He holds a Martindale-Hubbell "AV" rating and is included in Illinois Super Lawyers. Mr. Collen is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. HARLEY J. GOLDSTEIN is a partner with K & L Gates LLP, in Chicago, Illinois, an international law firm comprised of nearly 2,000 attorneys in 37 offices around the globe, where he leads the Chicago office's bankruptcy and restructuring group. He was profiled as one of 40 Illinois Attorneys Under 40 to Watch, in a publication by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company (publisher of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and the Chicago Lawyer), in which he was praised for his creative application of the Bankruptcy Code to accomplish his clients' goals. At the time Mr. Goldstein received this award, he was 32 years old -- the youngest age of any recipient of that accolade for the year in which he received the honor. In addition, every single year since the award's inception, he has been named as a Rising Star in the Illinois Super Lawyers magazine, from the publishers of Law & Politics and Chicago Magazine. Mr. Goldstein also was bestowed with the 2009 Small Transaction of the Year award by the Turnaround Management Association's Chicago/Midwest chapter. He represents secured creditors, unsecured creditors, debtors, committees, trustees, equity security holders and other parties in all transactional and litigation aspects of bankruptcy cases. Mr. Goldstein also represents lenders and borrowers in out-of-court operational and financial restructuring matters. He authored a chapter entitled "The Business of Bankruptcy: Realizing Restructuring Objectives Through Strategic Ingenuity" in the book Bankruptcy and Restructuring Strategies, published by Aspatore Books as part of its "Inside the Minds" series, and also co-wrote "Spending Other People's Money: Creditors' Remedies for the Misuse of Cash Collateral in Bankruptcy," published in the University of Miami Business Law Review, "Can Ipso Facto Clauses Resolve the Discharge Debate?: An Economic Approach to Novated Fraud Debt in Bankruptcy," published in the DePaul Business and Commercial Law Journal and "Tips and Traps for Landlords under New Bankruptcy Amendment," published in the Newsletter of Corporate Renewal. Mr. Goldstein is licensed to practice in Illinois and New York. He earned his B.A. degree from Arizona State University and his J.D. degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Prior to practicing, Mr. Goldstein served as law clerk to the Honorable Erwin I. Katz, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Illinois. He is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Turnaround Management Association and the Commercial Finance Association. C. JOHN RUDDY is a managing member in the firm Ruddy, Milroy & King LLC, in Aurora, Illinois. Mr. Ruddy concentrates his practice in the areas of litigation concerning real estate, bankruptcy reorganization, commercial matters and consumer disputes. He has been in practice since 1977. Mr. Ruddy advises and represents the firm's clients on real estate foreclosure proceedings, including the implementation of sheriff's sales. He also advises and represents loan borrowers on defenses and counterclaims to mortgage foreclosure proceedings, including the Fair Credit Agreements Act; the Real Estate Settlement Protections Act; the Truth in Lending Act; the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act. Mr. Ruddy earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Denver and his J.D. degree from John Marshall Law School. He has been the chairperson of the Commercial, Banking and Bankruptcy Committee of the Kane County Bar Association from 1994 to the present and is a former bankruptcy trustee. MORRIS R. SAUNDERS is a partner in the Chicago law firm of Levin & Ginsburg. Mr. Saunders concentrates his practice in the areas of wealth management, asset protection, estate planning, business taxation law, real estate, ownership and management succession, and deferred compensation. He also deals extensively in business succession and in the negotiation and preparation of commercial real estate and equipment leases and other business agreements. Mr. Saunders is a member of the Chicago Estate Planning Counsel and the Chicago Bar Association. He has spoken to various professional and community groups about estate planning, trusts, estates, business succession planning and deferred compensation. Mr. Saunders earned his B.A. degree from the University of Virginia, his J.D. degree from The John Marshall Law School and his LL.M. degree from DePaul University.
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