Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Kathy Bazoian Phelps of Diamond McCarthy LLP (Los Angeles) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 2008, Phelps is co-chair of ABI’s Commercial Fraud Committee, a co-author of Fraud and Forensics: Piercing Through the Deception in a Commercial Fraud Case and The Depths of Deepening Insolvency: Damage Exposure for Officers, Directors and Others, and is a frequent speaker at ABI events. She will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors.
Phelps has been practicing law in the areas of bankruptcy and fraud litigation since 1991. She represents bankruptcy trustees, receivers, defendants and investors, and has been lead counsel in large-scale litigation involving the recovery of assets in Ponzi scheme cases. She also has extensive litigation experience in a variety of bankruptcy litigation matters. Phelps has lectured widely and written on bankruptcy and receivership matters, with a focus on Ponzi schemes. Her book entitled The Ponzi Book: A Legal Resource for Unraveling Ponzi Schemes, co-authored with Hon. Steven Rhodes, has garnered national and international attention as the authoritative work on Ponzi scheme law. She is also the author of The Ponzi Scheme Blog at www.theponzischemeblog.com.
Phelps received her J.D. in 1991 from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law and her B.A. in 1988 from Pomona College.
The complete list of directors and officers is available at http://www.abi.org/about-us/board-directors.
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