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Professor Mark S. Scarberry to Serve as ABI Resident Scholar for Fall 2007 Semester

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PROFESSOR
MARK S. SCARBERRY TO SERVE AS
w:st='on'>ABI RESIDENT SCHOLAR FOR FALL 2007
SEMESTER

September 7, 2007,
Alexandria, Va. — Prof. Mark S. Scarberry,
Professor of Law at the Pepperdine University School of Law, will serve
as the Robert M. Zinman ABI
Resident Scholar for the Fall 2007 semester. Prof. Scarberry will serve
in ABI's
w:st='on'>Alexandria,
w:st='on'>Va., office from September to
December, assisting ABI with
its educational programming and in its role as the authoritative source
of bankruptcy information for the Congress, media and public.

Prof. Scarberry’s work
focuses on bankruptcy (particularly chapter 11 business reorganization),

contracts, legal philosophy and constitutional law (particularly freedom

of religion).  A member of Pepperdine’s faculty since 1982,
Scarberry currently teaches insolvency courses focused on remedies,
creditors' rights and bankruptcy, business reorganization in bankruptcy,

and mergers and acquisitions. Scarberry's bankruptcy scholarship
includes Scarberry, Klee, Newton & Nickles'Business
Reorganization in Bankruptcy: Cases and Materials (now in its third
edition from Thomson Gale Publishing
(2006)).

In addition to teaching and
writing, he has prepared training materials and helped attorneys provide

pro bono help to low-income consumer bankruptcy debtors as part
of the L.A. County Bar Association/Public Counsel Debtor Assistance
Project. Prior to joining the faculty at Pepperdine, he practiced law
for four years with Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue (
w:st='on'>Los Angeles). 

Prof. Scarberry received his J.D. from
w:st='on'>University of
w:st='on'>California, Los
Angeles, in 1978 and his A.B. magna cum laude from
Occidental

College in
1975.

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size='3'>ABI is the largest multi-disciplinary,
nonpartisan organization dedicated to research and education on matters
related to insolvency. ABI
was founded in 1982 to provide Congress and the public with unbiased
analysis of bankruptcy issues. The
w:st='on'>ABI membership includes more than 11,500
attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround

specialists and other bankruptcy professionals providing a forum for the

exchange of ideas and information. For additional information on
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