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 | Gerald K. SmithOf Counsel
Lewis and Roca LLP 40 North Central Avenue, Suite 1900 Phoenix, Arizona
85004-4429 (Maricopa Co.)
Telephone: 602-262-5348 Fax: 602-734-3834 http://www.lrlaw.com/smith
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| Practice Areas | Bankruptcy Law; Commercial Litigation; Secured Transactions | | | Education | New York University (LL.B., 1961; Survey Editor of Law Review), Kansas State University, B.S., 1958; New York University (Root Tilden Scholar; Articles) | | | Admitted | 1962, Arizona | |
| Memberships | Maricopa County and American (Member, Business Section and Business Bankruptcy Committee; Former Chair: Business Section's SABRE Committee; Business Bankruptcy Committee's Ethics, Chapter 11 and Jurisdiction and Venue Subcommittees; Member, Business Law Section and Litigation Section Joint Task Force on Bankruptcy Court Structure and Insolvency Process) Bar Associations; State Bar of Arizona. | | | Biography | Listed in The Best Lawyers in America for over twenty years; K&A Restructuring Register: America's Top 100; The Phoenix Business Journal's Best of the Bar in Tax, Finance and Bankruptcy, 2004. Recipient: American College of Bankruptcy's Distinguished Service Award, 2000; Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal's Lifetime Achievement Award, 2004. Honored as a Legend of the Law by the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, 2006. Member, National Bankruptcy Conference, 1970—. Deputy Director, Commission on the Bankruptcy Laws of the United States, 1972-1973. Member, Advisory Committee on Rules of Bankruptcy of the Judicial Conference of the United States, 1993-1999. Chair, Subcommittee on: Rule 2014 Disclosure Requirements; Attorney Conduct Rules. Member, Litigation Subcommittee and Long Range Planning Subcommittee. Participant, Special Study Conference on Federal Rules Governing Attorney Conduct, 1996. Designated Representative, Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules to the Subcommittee on Attorney Conduct Rules of the Committee on Rules and Practice of the Judicial Conference. Member, Ethics, Partnerships, and Tax Working Groups of the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, 1997. Former Chair, Board of Directors and Board of Regents of the American College of Bankruptcy. Member, American Law Institute, 1989—. Advisor, Transnational Insolvency Project and a consultant to the Restatement (Third) for the Law Governing Lawyers and Restatement of the Law, Suretyship. Member, UCC Permanent Editorial Board's Article 9 Study Committee, 1989-1993. Observer, Uniform State Law Commission Article 9 Drafting Committee. Lawyer delegate to the Ninth Circuit, 1988—. Member, Board of Directors of the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, 1988—. Adjunct Professor: Bankruptcy course, Arizona State University School of Law, 1999; Debtor Creditor course, University of Arizona, 1994. | | | ISLN | 903622545 | |
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