Mr. James E. Bird

James E. Bird is a senior partner and former chair of the Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring practice at Polsinelli in Kansas City, Mo., where he focuses his practice on representing debtor corporations, secured lenders, official committees of unsecured creditors, debenture holders, share-holders, employees, landlords, asset-purchasers and trustees. A broad spectrum of industries, including health care, insurance, real estate, trucking, manufacturing, agriculture (as well as farm cooperatives), service, retail and nonprofits, routinely look to him for guidance and representation.Mr. Bird has been included in the U.S. News ? Best Lawyers ranking for Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law since 2005. He also has been recognized inThe Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law (2005-Present) and is an author of Polsinelli?s The Devil?s Dictionary of BankruptcyTerms, the app for which is currently available for free on iTunes. Mr. Bird is rated AV-Preeminentby Martindale-Hubbell and is a member of ABI and the American Bar Association?s Business LawSection, The Missouri Bar, the Turnaround Management Association?s Missouri Chapter, the Turn-around Professionals Association and the Volunteer Attorney Project. He received his B.A. in 1976from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, his M.B.A. from the University of Missouri-KansasCity in 1978 and his J.D. with honors from Washburn University School of Law in 1980.