Lauren Lonergan Taylor practices in the areas of commercial finance, bankruptcy law, corporate reorganization, creditors' rights, out of court workouts and complex commercial reorganizations. She represents numerous commercial banks, insurance companies, other commercial financing institutions and borrowers in secured lending, asset-based lending, leasing and credit enhancement transactions as well as other types of commercial transactions. Ms. Taylor has represented chapter 11 trustees, creditors' committees and secured and unsecured creditors in all facets of bankruptcy. She has also assisted creditors in enforcement of remedies through commercial litigation in federal and state court.
Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, she is a member of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference.
Ms. Taylor is a 1995 cum laude graduate of the Villanova University School of Law, where she was an associate editor of the Villanova Law Review, and a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Delaware, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Areas of Practice
· Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law
· Commercial Reorganization
· Out of Court Workouts/Debt Restructuring
· Creditors' Rights
· Corporate and Commercial Finance
· Surety and Other Bonding Claims
· Uniform Commercial Code/Secured Transactions
Professional Activities
· American Bar Association
- Business Law Section
· Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference
· American Bankruptcy Institute
Experience
· Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2004-present
- Associate, 1995-2003
Civic and Charitable Activities
· Honoree, National Multiple Sclerosis Society Leadership Class of '99
· Planning Committee, National Multiple Sclerosis Society Walk Ridley Creek State Park site
Honors and Awards
· AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
Selected Speaking Engagements
· Speaker, "Fraud On the Front Line - - Current Topics Affecting Lenders and Their Professionals," seminar presented for the Commercial Finance Group and Law Department of GE Capital Corp., December 18, 2003
· "Bankruptcy: Issues and Opportunities," 15th Annual International Professional Liability Underwriters Society Conference, Orlando, Florida, November 12, 2002
· Speaker, 1999 Honorable William H. Gindin Bankruptcy Bench Bar Conference
· "Drafting Plans of Reorganization and Disclosure Statements," PBI Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 19, 2002.
· "Fair Credit Reporting Act-Fair Debt Collections Act," Honorable William H. Gindin Bankruptcy Bench-Bar Conference, East Brunswick, New Jersey, April 30, 1999
· "Third Circuit Review" panel, Fifteenth Annual Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference, Princeton, New Jersey, January 31, 2004