Babette A. Ceccotti

Babette A. Ceccotti is retired from the firm of Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP in New York, where she served as partner from 1990-2014 and divided her time between the firm's bankruptcy practice and em- ployee benefits practice. She represented labor organizations in numerous bankruptcy cases including the City of Detroit, United Air Lines, Dana Corp., Delphi Corp., Chrysler and GM, and the L.A. Dodg- ers. Ms. Ceccotti participated in the representation of labor organizations and many other cases in the auto, steel, health care, textile, retail, entertainment and maritime industries. She also served as outside counsel to the AFL-CIO on bankruptcy matters. From 1995-97, Ms. Ceccotti served as a member of the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, appointed by President Bill Clinton. In 2010, she testi- fied before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. She also served on ABI's Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11 (2012-2014) and joined the National Bankruptcy Conference in November 2014. Ms. Ceccotti has been a contributing editor of the Employee and Union Member Guide to Labor Law, published by the National Lawyers Guild, and a contributing author of Employee Benefits Law (Second Edition). She has also authored several articles on labor and employee benefit issues in bankruptcy, including publications in the ABI Law Review, in Business Law Today and in the newsletter of the American Bar Association's Section of Labor and Employment Law, and she is a frequent speaker and contributor to programs on employee and benefit interests in bankruptcy cases. Ms. Ceccotti graduated cum laude from Clark University in 1977 and from New York Law School in 1983.