Hartford lawyer James J. Tancredi has been tapped to become a U.S. bankruptcy judge for the District of Connecticut in Hartford, the Hartford Business Journal reported today. Tancredi, who is a partner at Day Pitney LLP, begins his judgeship Sept. 1. He fills a judicial vacancy created by retired Connecticut Bankruptcy Judge Alan H.W. Shiff, who served for nearly 40 years. For more than 30 years, Tancredi has represented financial institutions, creditors' committees, bondholders, investors and others in asset recovery actions, reorganizations, bankruptcies and insolvency proceedings. Tancredi is also one of the co-founders of Day Pitney's bankruptcy and restructuring practice.
