Sheryl Toby Elected to ABIs Board of Directors

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SHERYL TOBY ELECTED TO
w:st='on'>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
face='Times' color='black'>Sheryl L. Toby
color='black'>of Dykema Gossett PLLC (
w:st='on'>Detroit)has
been elected to ABI’s
Board of Directors. An
w:st='on'>ABI member since 1986, Toby is a program
chair of ABI’s Central
States Bankruptcy Workshop and has served as a co-chair on
ABI’s Commercial

Fraud Task Force Committee. She
color='black'>will serve a term of three years on the 60-member
ABI Board of
Directors.

Toby is the co-leader of
Dykema’s Bankruptcy Practice Group, providing creative solutions
to creditors, debtors and lenders in addressing troubled-company
situations. Her practice has included representing a wide range of
clients including manufacturing, retail, health care, real estate,
financial institutions and creditors’ committees. Toby is the vice

chair for the Use and Disposition of Property Subcommittee of the
Business Bankruptcy Committee of the American Bar Association and is a
member of the Michigan Network of the International Women’s
Insolvency/Restructuring Confederation. She was named in the Best
Lawyers in America 2007 by Woodward and White and as a
“Michigan Super Lawyer” in Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor
Rights by Law & Politics.

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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