Hon. Neil W. Bason

Hon. Neil W. Bason is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California in Los Angeles, appointed in 2011. While in private practice at Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, P.C. and Duane Morris LLP, he represented a wide variety of interests in commercial bankruptcy and insolvency matters, including secured and unsecured creditors, trustees, receivers, debtors/borrowers, guarantors, prospective asset-purchasers, and other parties in interest. Before that, he clerked for Hon. Dennis Montali, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of California and Chief Judge of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit. Judge Bason received his J.D. magna cum laude from Boston University School of Law in 1988, where he was a note editor on its law review.