Craig Steven Sternberg

Craig Sternberg is a native of Washington state. His practice focuses on counseling and representing creditors and debtors in Bankruptcy and reorganization; counseling businesses in the formation and maintenance of business entities; representing parties to commercial real estate transactions and commercial litigation, mediations and arbitrations matters since 1970.

Craig has counseled and represented Creditors and Debtors in Chapter 7 and 13 Bankruptcy cases as well as Creditors, Debtors in Possession and Creditor Committees in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Reorganizations; Receivers and Debtors in State Court Receiverships. Among other things, he has successfully reorganized a furniture retailer, a Fixed Base (Airport) Operator, a manufacturer of baby strollers, a food processor's real estate operations and individuals with multiple real estate holdings in Chapter 11 proceedings. He also represents secured and unsecured creditors in all Bankruptcy Chapters. He regularly appears in Bankruptcy Courts in the Western and Eastern Districts of Washington, and has handled matters in state, federal and bankruptcy courts in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia and Maryland.

He is a member of the Thomas T. Glover Mediation Panel for the Bankruptcy Courts of the Western District of Washington.

He represented a major national credit counseling agency in a significant national class arbitration based on the Federal Credit Repair Organization and other federal and state debt management and consumer protection statutes in the American Arbitration Association. He also has represented clients in arbitrations before the American Arbitration Association, Judicial Disputes Resolutions, JAMS and private arbitrations and mediations. He hsa been an arbitrator under the Mandatory Arbitration Rules in the King County Superior Court; and is a mediator under the Thomas T. Glover Mediation Program in the Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Washington.

Just one year out of law school, Craig sued the University of Washington's Law School in a reverse discrimination case which went to the Supreme Court (DeFunis v Odegaard, 416 US 312). His client, who was admitted to the Law School under a court order, finished law school and became a lawyer. In 2000 and 2001 he was in-house general counsel to a venture capital firm and an "internet incubator".

Mr. Sternberg is a past Chair of the Mandatory Continuing Education Board and a current member and the immediate Past Chair of the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the Washington State Bar Association. He was the first editor of the Washington State Bar Association's Creditor/Debtor Section Newsletter and has served on several Bar Association committees. He has been a lecturer in bankruptcy for continuing legal education. Mr. Sternberg was a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and is "AV" (highest) rated attorney by Martindale Hubbell.