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ROBERT D. HOOKS is a partner in the commercial law department of the Rochester law firm of Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP. His areas of practice include commercial collections, consumer collections, construction law, contract litigation, real estate litigation and appellate practice. Mr. Hooks has previously spoken for National Business Institute on evictions, landlord/tenant law, commercial collections, and on the FDCPA, and to various business and professional groups on topics relating to his areas of practice. He is a member of the Monroe County and the New York State bar associations. Mr. Hooks earned his B.A. degree from Harpur College and his J.D. degree from Albany Law School of Union University. WILLIAM ILECKI is a partner of Bulan, Chiari, Horwitz and Ilecki LLP, in Buffalo, New York, where he practices in the areas of retail/commercial litigation, creditors' rights and bankruptcy. He has primarily concentrated his practice in the areas of bankruptcy and collection. After attaining the David and Edith Goldstein Award in law school for proficiency in bankruptcy/debtor-creditor subjects, he served as in-house counsel for a collection agency in Pennsylvania. Mr. Ilecki has lectured on collections and bankruptcy law before the New York State Credit Union League, Buffalo District (1997 and 2000) and Jamestown District (2005), the Western New York Credit Association (1995, 1999, 2001 and 2002), the New York State Credit Union League, Tri-District Workshops (1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2004) and for the National Business Institute 2006 "Consumer Debt Collection" seminar. He also serves as a board member and was president of the Western New York Credit Association. Mr. Ilecki has written the 1999, 2002 and 2005 "Procedures" chapter supplement of the New York State Bar Association publication Collections and the Enforcement of Money Judgments. Since 1990, Mr. Ilecki has been admitted to practice law in all courts of the states of New York and Pennsylvania. He also is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court and the Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of New York, as well as the Peacemaker Court for the Seneca Nation of Indians. Mr. Ilecki is a member of the Erie County Bar Association (member, Banking and Commercial Law Committee), the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys (NARCA). He earned his B.A. degree, magna cum laude and in the All-College Honors Program, from Canisius College and his J.D. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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