Jennifer A. Christian

Jennifer A. Christian is a partner at ASK LLP in New York, and her practice focuses on representing indenture trustees, secured and unsecured creditors (including trade creditors), asset-purchasers, liquidating trustees, and other major constituencies in chapter 11 and chapter 7 bankruptcy cases and other proceedings. She has more than 15 years of bankruptcy and creditors’ rights experience. Prior to joining ASK LLP, Ms. Christian was counsel at Thompson & Knight LLP and an associate at Kelley, Drye & Warren LLP and Bryan Cave LLP. Prior to entering private practice, she clerked for two years for the Chief Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of New York in Rochester. Ms. Christian is admitted to practice law in New York and Connecticut, and before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York. She received her B.A. in political science from the State University of New York – College at Geneseo and interned at both the Monroe County District Attorneys’ Office and the White House, where she worked in the Office of the Legal Counsel to the Vice President of the United States. She received her J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law in 2000 with honors and participated in its first-ever Bankruptcy LL.M. program, and she won the Springer Legislative Award for Excellence in Legislative Advocacy and the CALI Excellence for the Future Scholastic Awards in Trusts & Estates and Legislative Advocacy. She interned for Hon. James L. Garrity, Jr. of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.