Prof. G. Ray Warner Elected to ABIs Board of Directors

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PROF. G. RAY WARNER ELECTED
TO ABI’S BOARD OF
DIRECTORS

April 11,
2008, Alexandria,
w:st='on'>Va. —
color='black'> The American Bankruptcy Institute (
w:st='on'>ABI) announces that Prof.
face='Times'>G. Ray Warner of
St. John's
w:st='on'>University and Of Counsel to Greenberg
Traurig, LLP (
w:st='on'>Jamaica, N.Y.)
color='black'>has been elected to
w:st='on'>ABI’s Board of Directors.
face='Times'>An ABI member
since 1991, Warner has served as the
class='bodytext1'>Robert M. Zinman
ABI
class='bodytext1'>Resident Scholar, is a frequent
contributor to the
w:st='on'>ABIJournal and is

the co-faculty advisor for the
w:st='on'>ABILaw Review, which is edited
by students at St.
John's. He
color='black'>will serve a term of three years on the 60-member
ABI Board of
Directors.

Prof. Warner is the director of

the LL.M. in Bankruptcy program at
w:st='on'>St.
John's
w:st='on'> University. Prior to
joining the St. John's faculty in 2003,
he was the William P. Boreland Distinguished Scholar and Professor of
Law at the School of
Law of the
w:st='on'>University of
w:st='on'>Missouri -
w:st='on'>Kansas City. Prof. Warner also serves
as Of Counsel to the law firm of Greenberg Traurig, P.C. He has
consulted in numerous major bankruptcy and consumer law cases, and
represented the bankruptcy trustee before the U.S. Supreme Court in a
9-0 victory in Fidelity Financial Services Inc. v. Fink, 522 U.S.

211, 118 S.Ct. 651, 139 L.Ed.2d 571 (1998). He is also former chair,
dean and founder of the American Board of Certification.

The complete list of directors and officers is available at

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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
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attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround

specialists and other bankruptcy professionals providing a forum for the

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