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Shawn Christianson focuses her practice on insolvency, general business and complex litigation. She represents financial institutions, insurers, sureties, secured and unsecured creditors, technology companies, state court receivers and bankruptcy trustees. Her practice spans the state, federal and bankruptcy courts, as well as out of court proceedings.
Ms. Christianson has served on several boards and committees including the California Receiver's Forum Board of Directors, the Bay Area Chapter of the California Receiver's Forum, where she also served as Vice President, the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum ("BABF"), BABF's Program and Finance Committees and the organizing committee of the California Bankruptcy Forum's Fifth Annual Conference. She was appointed to a three-year term as a Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference and served on the Northern District's Local Rules Committee for the 1999 rules revision, which addressed both the District and Bankruptcy Court's Local Rules. She has acted as a Resolution Advocate on the Bankruptcy Dispute Resolution Panel in the Northern District of California since that Panel's creation. She served as Chair of the Bar Association of San Francisco's Commercial Law and Bankruptcy section. She was also a founding member of the Barrister Club's Speakers Bureau. She is a frequent lecturer, including presenting as a panelist at Loyola Law School on the topic of Receiverships in the New Millennium in October 2004.
Ms. Christianson is an active participant in numerous community and civic organizations, including having been elected in November 2006 to the Hillsborough City School District's Board of Trustees.
Ms. Christianson received her B.A. magna cum laude from Boston College in 1981. She earned her J.D. in 1984 from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where she was on the editorial board of the Hastings Journal of Communications and Entertainment Law.
Areas of Practice
Financial Solutions
Bankruptcy
Insolvency
Workouts
Bar Admissions
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