Contact:
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(703) 739-0800
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ROBERT J. KEACH NAMED ABI VICE PRESIDENT OF
EDUCATION
May 10, 2006,
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color='black'> The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces
that Robert J. Keach of Bernstein Shur (
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Vice President-Education by the ABI Board of Directors. He succeeds Neil
P. Olack, who recently sworn in as a bankruptcy judge in
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member since 1985, Keach is a member of the ABI Board of Directors and
is als a past program chair of ABI’s Northeast Bankruptcy
Conference. He is also a member of ABI's Health Care, Finance and
Banking and Unsecured Trade Creditors Committees. He is also a
contributing editor to the ABI Journal’s “News at
11” column, which covers a variety of chapter 11 case law
developments.
Keach, who joined Bernstein
Shur in 1994, is chair of the firm’s Business Restructuring and
Insolvency Practice Group. His practice focuses on the representation of
various parties in workouts and bankruptcy cases including debtors,
creditors, creditors’ committees, lessors and third parties
acquiring troubled companies and/or their assets. Keach received his
J.D. in 1980 from the University of Maine School of Law and his B.A.
with highest honors from the
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The complete list of directors
and officers is available at
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