Prof. Nancy Rapoport Elected to ABIs Board of Directors

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PROF. NANCY RAPOPORT 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 Prof.
face='Times'>Nancy B. Rapoport of the William S. Boyd School of
Law (Las
Vegas)has been
elected to ABI’s Board
of Directors. An ABI
member since 1994, Prof.
color='black'>Rapoport is a frequent speaker at
w:st='on'>ABI events and was a member of the advisory
panel for the ABI
Endowment’s landmark professional fee study. She
color='black'>will serve a term of three years on the 60-member
ABI Board of
Directors.

Prof. Rapoport is the Gordon
& Silver, Ltd. Professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law,
University of
w:st='on'>Nevada,
w:st='on'>Las Vegas.  Prior to joining the
faculty at UNLV, she served as dean and professor of law at the
University of Houston Law Center from July 2000-May 2006 and as
professor of law from June 2006-07. Prof. Rapoport is an expert on the
Enron bankruptcy, the largest in bankruptcy case history, and even
appeared as herself in the 2005 Academy Award-nominated film, Enron:
The Smartest Guys in the Room. She is a frequent writer on ethics
and business reorganization issues and is a Fellow of the American Bar
Foundation and
w:st='on'>American
w:st='on'>College of Bankruptcy.

The complete list of directors
and officers is available at

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