Hon. Joel D. Applebaum

Hon. Joel D. Applebaum is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan in Flint.Prior to taking the bench, he was a member of Clark Hill PLC, where he practiced in the firm?sCorporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy Practice Group and focused in the areas of bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, creditors? rights, commercial and bankruptcy litigation, and general commercial law. Judge Applebaum?s practice included representing debtors, creditors? committees, customers, trade vendors, distressed-asset-purchasers, liquidating agents and trustees, among other parties in interest, in bankruptcy courts throughout the U.S. and in all industries and business types.He successfully briefed and argued cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Third and SixthCircuits, including issues of first impression in United Food & Commercial Workers Union v. A/mac?sInc. {In re A/mac?s Inc.), 90 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 1996), and Bayer Corp. v. Masco Tech Inc. {In re Autostyle Plastics Inc.), 269 F.3d 726 (6th Cir. 2001). His practice also included federal and state law creditors? rights procedures, including receiverships, assignments for the benefit of creditors and trust mort-gages. A member of the Michigan, New York, American and Federal Bar Associations, Judge Applebaum is also a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and of the American Bar Foundation, and he was selected as a leading attorney in bankruptcy and creditors? rights by The Best Lawyers in America (2011 through present), Michigan Super Lawyers (2007 through present) and dBusinessmagazine (2009 through present). He was also named by Michigan Super Lawyers as a ?MichiganTop 50 Business Lawyer? and a ?Michigan Top 100 Lawyer.? Judge Applebaum is a past co-chair of the State Bar of Michigan?s Creditors? Rights Committee and has authored and lectured extensively on bankruptcy, creditors? rights and general commercial law topics. He received his B.A. with honors from Michigan State University in 1979 and his J.D. with honors from Wayne State University LawSchool in 1983.