Bankruptcy -- Author Information

Kathleen P. March, Esq., a Yale Law School graduate, is a former United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California (1988-2002). She now practices bankruptcy law full time at the firm she founded, The Bankruptcy Law Firm (www.bkylawfirm.com).

March represents individual and small business debtors in Chapters 7 and 13, and creditors in all Chapters of bankruptcy. She also provides bankruptcy issues consults and representation in bankruptcy adversary proceedings and bankruptcy appeals.

March is admitted to practice in California and New York. She is certified as a bankruptcy specialist by the State Bar of California, and as a consumer bankruptcy specialist and business bankruptcy specialist by the American Board of Certification. She has coauthored several published articles on bankruptcy subjects and lectures frequently on bankruptcy issues.

Judge Alan M. Ahart is a judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California. He was appointed in 1988 and reappointed to a second 14-year term in 2002. He is a graduate of the State University of New York School of Law, Buffalo, and also holds an LLM from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Judge Ahart has authored numerous published articles, most of them on bankruptcy topics. He was the first judge to receive the Editors' Prize for demonstrating special excellence in an article in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal and has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal.

Judge Ahart also authors The Rutter Group's California Practice Guide: Enforcing Judgments and Debts, and is a frequent lecturer on debt collection, judgment enforcement and bankruptcy topics.

Judge Leslie Tchaikovsky is a bankruptcy judge in Oakland, California. She was appointed in 1988 and reappointed to a second 14-year term in 2002.

Judge Tchaikovsky has served as the Secretary of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and on the Bankruptcy Judges Advisory Committee to the Administrative Office of the United States Court. Prior to her appointment, she was a partner in the former San Francisco law firm of Dinkelspiel, Donovan & Reder, where she specialized in bankruptcy law and commercial litigation.

Judge Tchaikovsky graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, California, where she received the Order of the Coif.

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