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Bricker & Eckler LLP’s creditors’ rights and bankruptcy practice group offers comprehensive legal services to clients affected by insolvency or non-performing debt. We provide a multidisciplinary approach that employs the firm’s negotiation, litigation and transactional skills to fashion creative and effective solutions to problems faced by financially troubled businesses and individuals and their creditors.

The creditors’ rights and bankruptcy practice group regularly represents secured and unsecured creditors, creditors’ committees, trustees and debtors in bankruptcy reorganization and liquidation proceedings, adversary proceeding litigation, and bankruptcy appeals. Our attorneys also have extensive experience in state court proceedings ranging from mortgage foreclosure and receivership litigation to commercial collection and judgment enforcement. The practice group also has specialized expertise representing financial institutions in consumer finance litigation.

Outside the courtroom we have represented lenders and borrowers in the restructuring and work out of sophisticated commercial facilities, asset based loans, bond and letter of credit backed financings, and construction and permanent mortgage loans.

The practice group is led by partners Kenneth C. Johnson and David M. Whittaker. Mr. Johnson is a bankruptcy specialist, certified by the American Board of Certification, and is listed in Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Whittaker is also certified as a bankruptcy specialist by the American Board of Certification, is listed in Best Lawyers in America and is a long-standing member of the Chapter 7 Trustee’s panel in Columbus. Other partners in the practice group include Gordon W. Johnston, honored as a Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers and listed in Best Lawyers in America, and David K. Conrad, also listed in Best Lawyers in America.

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Highlights
CREDITOR RIGHTS & BANKRUPTCY E-ALERTS

We provide our clients with the litigation resources to effectively defend the full range of federal, state, and common law causes of action arising out of consumer financing and residential mortgage transactions. Read more . . .
Consumer Finance Litigation

Ohio predatory lending law: Developments and pending litigation and the Ohio Homebuyers’ Protection Act Compliance Toolkit
Predatory Lending Resource Center

The Ohio state and federal courts have issued three decisions in the past few months affecting the mortgage industry and bankruptcy. Read about these cases
Update of Ohio Mortgage Case Law

A Case to Watch: Ohio Supreme Court case that will have an impact on the ability of a mortgage lender to recoup its attorney’s fees when a defaulting borrower elects to reinstate a mortgage following a default
Ohio Supreme Court to Decide Validity of Attorney Fee Provision in Mortgage Reinstatement Clauses  

 

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