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Larry K. Lesnik is a member of the firm’s Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Group. Larry has represented corporate debtors in Chapter 11 reorganizations, creditor committees, trustees in both Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 proceedings and individual Chapter 7 debtors in cases of all sizes. He has also assisted in numerous successful reorganizations and accomplished the sale of substantially all of many clients’ operating assets.
Larry has represented successful parties in several reported decisions during his career as an insolvency attorney, and is particularly proud of his efforts to form an Employee’s Committee (over the objection of all other interested parties) in the Herman’s Chapter 11 case, which Committee thereafter negotiated payments to employees in excess of $1,000,000.00.
Prior to private practice, Larry practiced law in the public interest sector and was the president of a plastics manufacturing company in Newark. These experiences have given him insight into the operations of many of the firm’s business clients. Larry was also appointed a Trustee in Bankruptcy by the Honorable Vincent J. Comisa prior to the enactment of the Bankruptcy Code of 1978.
Outside the office, Larry has served as a lecturer for both the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education and at the annual Bench-Bar Conference of bankruptcy judges and attorneys, addressing topics such as litigating non-dischargeability complaints and employment-related issues, and has authored articles published in the New Jersey Law Journal and Bankruptcy Strategist. He received an Equal Justice Medal from Legal Services of New Jersey in 2006 for pro bono services. | 