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class='bodyhead1'>MICHAEL L. BERNSTEIN ELECTED TO ABI’S BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
May 21, 2010,
Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI)
announces that Michael L. Bernstein of Arnold & Porter LLP
(Washington, D.C.) has been elected to ABI’s Board of
Directors. An ABI member since 1994 and a contributing author to
theBankruptcy in Practice,
Fourth Edition, Bernstein also regularly contributes articles
to the ABI Journal. He is a co-chair of
ABI’s Labor and Employment Committee and frequently speaks on
labor issues in bankruptcy at ABI events. He will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of
Directors.
Bernstein is chair of Arnold
& Porter LLP’s national bankruptcy and corporate restructuring
practice. He represents secured and unsecured creditors, creditors'
committees, bondholders, investors, asset-purchasers, debtors and other
parties in a wide variety of bankruptcy and workout matters, and in
related litigation throughout the United States. He is consistently
distinguished as one of the top bankruptcy and restructuring lawyers in
Washington, D.C., by Chambers USA Leading Lawyers for Business.
He has testified before Congress as an independent expert on the status
of collective bargaining agreements, retiree and pension benefits, and
executive compensation in bankruptcy. Bernstein received his B.A. from
Brandeis University and his J.D. from Northwestern University School of
Law.
The complete list of directors
and officers is available at
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