Hon. Jeffery A. Deller

Hon. Jeffery A. Deller is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania in Pitts-burgh, appointed in 2005. Prior to his appointment, he was a shareholder in the bankruptcy and in-solvency practice group at Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling, P.C. While in private practice, some of his representations included representing the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health System(UPMC) in connection with its $100 million acquisition of the assets of St. Francis Hospital, serving as counsel to the unsecured creditors? committees of various chapter 11 cases (including the cases filed byNational Record Mart and Arcadia Energy Corp.), and serving as advisor to most of the Pittsburgh region?s banks and financial institutions with respect to bankruptcy and loan workout matters. Judge Deller is a prior recipient of the Allegheny County Bar Association?s Young Lawyer of the Year Award. He authored Looking Before You Leap Into an Involuntary Bankruptcy Case, 171 N.J. L. J. 446 (2003), andExamining the Examiner: Waiver Of the Attorney-Client Privilege and the Outer Limits of an Examiner?s Powers in Bankruptcy, 43 Duq. L. Rev. 187 (2005), and co-authored ?Putting Order to the Madness:BAPCPA and the Contours of the New Pre bankruptcy Credit Counseling Requirements,? 16 J. Bankr.L. & Prac. 1 Art. 5 (2007). He is also a contributing author to West?s Pennsylvania Forms: Debtor-Creditor, a forms guide and treatise for practitioners. Judge Deller received he B.A. in economics and political science from the University of Pittsburgh and his J.D. cum laude from Duquesne UniversitySchool of Law, where he served as a member of The Duquesne Law Review and was the recipient of theAmerican Bankruptcy Law Journal Prize awarded by the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and the Gerald K. Gibson Memorial Award granted by the Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section of the Allegheny County Bar Association.