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Jim Breen is a partner in the Bankruptcy Workout and Special Litigation Department and has been with Chapman and Cutler LLP since 1981. Mr. Breen began his legal career in Chicago in 1968 as law clerk to a United States District Court Judge and has since concentrated his practice in litigation and related fields. He received extensive trial experience as a federal prosecutor from 1970 to 1976 in the office of the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and, from 1974 to 1976, had supervisory responsibility as Chief of the Financial Crimes Section of that office. Since 1976 Mr. Breen has prosecuted and defended complex civil litigation before federal and state courts and defended enforcement proceedings before federal and state agencies, including the first two futures market manipulation cases to be tried before administrative law judges of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Mr. Breen's practice centers on representation of financial institutions, institutional investors and corporate trustees in financial litigation and workouts, involving a variety of obligors including borrowers, guarantors, sureties, insurers and securities issuers. Such representation has frequently included defense of claims asserted by borrowers, bankruptcy trustees, receivers and court-appointed liquidators. | 