Mr. James Patrick Shea
James Patrick Shea is a partner with Shea Larsen in Las Vegas and has nearly 40 years of experience advising financial institutions, landlords, vendors, creditors? committees, debtors, bankruptcy trustees and other parties in business bankruptcy proceedings. He also advises clients in commercial litigation relating to other aspects of the debtor/creditor relationship, including the enforcement of their rights in liquidations, receiverships, litigation and informal out-of-court workouts. An ABI member since 1988,Mr. Shea is a former ABI President and Chairman. He also served as ABl?s Secretary and Vice President Communications & Information Technology, and was the founding chair of ABl?s Subcommittee on Gaming Insolvencies and Reorganizations. In addition, he chairs ABl?s Civility Task Force and is a former program chair of ABl?s Southwest Bankruptcy Conference. Mr. Shea is the founding and current chair of the State Bar of Nevada?s Bankruptcy Law Section, co-chaired the Ninth Circuit Lawyer Representatives for the District of Nevada, and was elected to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference ExecutiveCommittee. He has represented clients in significant hotel and casino bankruptcies, including those filed by Landmark, Marina, Riviera, Bally?s, Gold River, Stratosphere, Arizona Charlie?s, Debbie Reynolds,Aladdin Hotel & Casino, Hooters Hotel & Casino, Stations Casinos, Fontainebleau, and Lucky Dragon Hotel and Casino. He also has handled high-profile bankruptcies in other industries involving such companies such as National Airlines, Sunworld Airlines, AgriBioTech, Mego Financial, Amerco (U-Haul),USA Capital, Pegasus Mining, Veris Gold, Fatburger, Vegas TV, Desert Land, Lake Las Vegas, Gump?s, Gypsum Mining, DC Solar and Fontainebleau Las Vegas. Mr. Shea is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been listed annually in The Best Lawyers in America since 2006 and in Mountain States SuperLawyers since 2007, among others. He received both his undergraduate degree and his J.D. from theUniversity of Arizona, where he received the chairmanship to the Moot Court Board and the Mitchell C.Nelson Award for legal scholarship.
James Patrick Shea