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BARRY W. FROST is a partner with the law firm of Teich Groh. Mr. Frost has been an attorney for more than 34 years and practices in the areas of bankruptcy law, collections and commercial litigation. He has been a member of the Panel of Trustees for the District of New Jersey since 1979. Mr. Frost earned his B.S. degree from Bradley University and his J.D. degree, with honors, from New York Law School. He is a member of the New Jersey State (chairman, Bankruptcy Law Section, 2005), New York State and American bar associations. HON. ROSEMARY GAMBARDELLA was sworn in as a bankruptcy judge on May 3, 1985 for the District of New Jersey. In 1992, Judge Gambardella transferred to the Newark Vicinage, where she presently oversees an array of commercial and consumer bankruptcy cases. Prior to taking the bench, she was senior staff counsel to Hugh M. Leonard, then United States trustee for the districts of New Jersey and Delaware. Judge Gambardella earned her law degree from Rutgers Law School in 1979. NANCY ISAACSON is a partner in the law firm of Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP and a member of the Panel of Chapter 7 Trustees for the Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. Ms. Isaacson concentrates her practice on bankruptcy and creditors' rights law. She also has significant experience in commercial litigation. Ms. Isaacson is a member of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, the American Bankruptcy Institute, the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, the Hadassah Attorney's Council, and the New Jersey State and Essex County bar associations. She earned her B.A. degree from Rutgers University and her J.D. degree from Seton Hall University School of Law. HON. MICHAEL B. KAPLAN was appointed as a bankruptcy judge on October 2, 2006 for the District of New Jersey, Trenton Vicinage. Prior to taking the bench, Judge Kaplan served as a standing Chapter 13 bankruptcy trustee. He earned his A.B. degree from Georgetown University and his J.D. degree from Fordham University School of Law. Judge Kaplan is licensed to practice law in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals; U.S. Court of International Trade; and various federal district courts. Over the past 20 years, he has spoken to numerous bar associations and business organizations, including: the New Jersey Judicial College; the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees; the Turnaround Management Association; the NY Institute of Credit; Bloomberg, L.P.; the Social Security Administration; the Pennsylvania Bar Institute; National Business Institute; and the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Judge Kaplan teaches as an adjunct professor at the Newark and Camden campuses of Rutgers University School of Law. He has written several articles relating to bankruptcy issues and is a co-author of West's Consumer Bankruptcy Manual. JAY L. LUBETKIN is a partner in the law firm of Rabinowitz, Lubetkin & Tully, LLC and a Chapter 7 panel trustee for the District of New Jersey, Region 3, Newark Vicinage. He is also a Chapter 11 trustee by appointment from the U.S. Trustee's Office. In his capacity as Chapter 7 Trustee, he has administered more than 4,000 bankruptcy cases. Mr. Lubetkin concentrates his practice in the representation of all parties in interest in Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases, including the representation of corporate and partnership debtors, individual debtors, Chapter 11 trustees, secured creditors, official committees, competing plan proponents, landlords, liquidators, and equity interest holders. He also maintains a substantial real estate, commercial litigation and transactional practice. Mr. Lubetkin has lectured on bankruptcy related matters before the American Bankruptcy Institute, the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education and the Essex County Bar Association. He has written articles for The Bankruptcy Strategist and the Essex County Bar Association Chronicle, and is a co-author of a chapter in the New Jersey Bankruptcy Manual. He earned his B.S. degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. degree from Emory University School of Law. HON. RAYMOND T. LYONS was sworn in as a United States bankruptcy judge for the District of New Jersey on May 4, 1999. Judge Lyons oversees cases in the Trenton Vicinage. Prior to taking the bench, he was a partner in the law firm of Connell Foley LLP, from 1989 until April 1999, when he resigned to assume his judgeship. Judge Lyons earned his J.D. degree from Seton Hall School of Law and his LL.M. degree, in taxation, from New York University Law School. STACEY L. MEISEL is a founding member of Becker Meisel LLC and co-chairs the firm's bankruptcy, insolvency and creditors' rights practice group. She represents privately held debtors, Chapter 7 and 11 trustees, secured and unsecured creditors, equity holders, and other interested parties in bankruptcy and state court proceedings in New Jersey, New York, Delaware and other states. In 1997, Ms. Meisel became the youngest serving member on the New Jersey Panel of Bankruptcy Trustees appointed by the U.S. Department of Justice, and is the first African-American woman to serve in this position in New Jersey. She is a co-author of West Publishing's Consumer Bankruptcy Manual (2008 and 2009), which covers a panoply of issues dealt with by attorneys representing debtors and creditors in individual bankruptcy cases. Ms. Meisel often authors articles on complex and developing areas of bankruptcy law for the nation's leading bankruptcy publications and lectures on bankruptcy related topics for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education and other organizations. She also serves on the ABI Advisory Board for the Mid Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop. Ms. Meisel is a member of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees; the New Jersey Association of Bankruptcy Trustees; the American Bankruptcy Institute; the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation; and the New Jersey State, Garden State, Essex County and Federal bar associations. She earned her B.A. degree from Rutgers University and her J.D. degree from Villanova University School of Law. ERIC R. PERKINS is a partner in the law firm of McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP. Mr. Perkins practices in the area of consumer and business bankruptcy; insolvency; and commercial transactions, with emphasis in representing businesses and their owners in bankruptcies, as well as assignments for the benefit of creditors and debtor's and creditors' committees in bankruptcies. His commercial experience includes transactions in the construction, healthcare, real estate, manufacturing and transportation industries, among many others, both here in the United States and in Europe. Mr. Perkins currently serves on the Panel of Chapter 7 Trustees for the United States Bankruptcy Court, District of New Jersey, Newark Vicinage; and has been a member for over ten years. Mr. Perkins has also received numerous appointments as a Chapter 11 trustee. Mr. Perkins is a member of the Bergen County, New Jersey State and American Bar Associations, and the American Bankruptcy Institute. He currently serves as the co-chair of the Bergen County Bar Association, Debtor/Creditor Section. Mr. Perkins has lectured extensively. Mr. Perkins earned his B.A. degree from Columbia College and his J.D. degree from Washington College of Law, American University. ALBERT RUSSO is the Chapter 13 standing trustee administering cases in the Trenton Vicinage of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. He earned his B.S. degree from St. Peter's College and his J.D. degree from Seton Hall University. CATHERINE E. YOUNGMAN recently joined Forman Holt Eliades & Ravin, LLC after being a partner at a boutique litigation firm for a number of years. She has been practicing in the area of insolvency since 1994, focusing on debtor and creditors' rights and representing Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 trustees. In 1999, Ms. Youngman was appointed to the panel of bankruptcy trustees by the U.S. Department of Justice and has served as Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 trustee in thousands of cases. In her capacity as trustee, she has overseen the liquidation of publicly traded companies (including Topps Meat and Headliners Entertainment) and privately held companies in diverse industries. Ms. Youngman earned her B.A. and M.P.A. degrees from Syracuse University and her J.D. degree from Seton Hall University. MODERATOR - PETER J. BROEGE is the managing member of the law firm of Broege, Neumann, Fischer & Shaver, LLC, where he specializes in representing clients in matters before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. He regularly appears in bankruptcy court in all three vicinages of the District of New Jersey, located in Trenton, Newark and Camden. For more than 30 years, Mr. Broege has represented debtors, creditors, trustees and committees in proceedings before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. He previously represented the Chapter 13 standing trustee in the Trenton and Camden vicinages of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for more than 10 years. Mr. Broege has served on the Lawyer's Advisory Committee to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey and also was a court appointed member of the Local Rules Committee for the Bankruptcy Court in New Jersey. At present, he is a registered mediator for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. In addition to appearing regularly before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey, Mr. Broege has appeared on bankruptcy appeals before the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, as well as the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a frequent lecturer on bankruptcy laws for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education of the New Jersey State Bar Association, as well as for other professional education organizations. Mr. Broege earned his B.A. degree from the University of South Carolina, his M.B.A. degree from Northwestern University and his J.D. degree from Rutgers Law School.
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