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Joel M. Helmrich is a partner of Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP and co-chairman of the firm’s Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy Group. Mr. Helmrich provides advice to clients that have questions in a variety of areas, including financial instruments, business sales and acquisitions. His practice also includes representing creditors in state court collection matters including mortgage foreclosure actions, and the areas of Chapters 7, 11 and 13 bankruptcies, out of court corporate reorganizations and debt restructurings, and commercial collections. In addition, Mr. Helmrich has represented the legal representative of future claimants in several major asbestos bankruptcy proceedings. Mr. Helmrich has been involved in many of the major bankruptcy cases that have been filed in Pittsburgh, as well as other major cases that were filed in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and West Virginia.A member of the Allegheny County Bar Association, Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section and Pennsylvania Bar Association, Mr. Helmrich is admitted to practice in all state courts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as well as in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Mr. Helmrich holds memberships in the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Commercial Law League of America. He is a frequent lecturer and panelist at bankruptcy and workout seminars. Mr. Helmrich has been honored in numerous editions of Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in the East, and Who’s Who in Finance and Industry. Mr. Helmrich has been selected for inclusion in Woodward/White’s 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions of The Best Lawyers in America and Philadelphia Magazine’s 2006 and 2007 editions of Pennsylvania Super Lawyers. He also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children and the Upper St. Clair Planning Commission. Mr. Helmrich received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Relations in 1975 and an MBA in 1976 from Cornell University. He earned his Juris Doctor degree in 1979 from the College of Law at Syracuse University, where he served as Executive Editor of the Law Review. | 