Hon. Donald R. Cassling

Hon. Donald R. Cassling is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago, sworn in on Jan. 18, 2012. Prior to his appointment, he was a partner at Jenner & Block and at Quarles & Brady in Chicago, where he had a national practice in commercial and patent-infringe-ment law, as well as bankruptcy litigation, and represented chapter 11 debtors in possession, creditors? committees, indi- vidual creditors and chapter 11 trustees. Upon graduation from law school, he clerked for Chief Judge John R. Brown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit before returning to Chicago to practice law. Judge Cassling has written and lectured extensively on the UCC, banking law and commercial liti- gation and has testified as an expert witness on the Illinois UCC. From 2003-11, Judge Cassling wrote ?Banking Briefs,? a banking litigation column for The Banking Law Journal, and served as a member of its board of editors. He has also participated as a faculty member for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and was selected as an Illinois Super Lawyer from 2009-12. Judge Cassling is a member of ABI, the American Bar Association and the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. He received his A.B. from Duke University and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.

Hon. Donald R. Cassling