Howard Karasik has concentrated in insolvency and bankruptcy matters for almost forty years. He is a past member of the Board of Governors of the Bankruptcy Bar Association and a member of the Bankruptcy Referral panel of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is also on the Bankruptcy Committee of the Bar Association of the State of New York. He is a frequent lecturer on insolvency matters before credit and bar association groups such as Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York County Lawyers Bar Association, the New York City Institute of Credit, and the Bankruptcy Bar Association. He has also lectured at the N.Y.U. Real Estate Institute. He is an honors graduate of Brooklyn College and Harvard Law School and a member of the New York State Bar, District of Columbia Bar, and the Federal Bar. Mr. Karasik is the author of the article entitled. The Doctrine of Marshalling Under the Bankruptcy Code which appeared in the February 1984 edition of the Commercial Law Journal, the article entitled Extending the Debtor’s Exclusive Right to File a Plan of Reorganization which appeared in the August/September 1985 edition of the Commercial Law Journal, and the article entitled Standing to Initiate Adversary Proceedings in a Bankruptcy Case which appeared in the Spring 1987 edition of the Commercial Law Journal. He has appeared in Bankruptcy Courts in such diverse jurisdictions as New York, Iowa and Texas, and Appellate Courts such as the New York State Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Mr. Karasik has represented innumerable debtors, creditors committees, and individual creditors in debtor/creditor and bankruptcy matters. Because many of his clients have been involved in turn-around situations Mr. Karasik has frequently been called upon to lend his managerial skills to his clients to facilitate their reorganization. |