Mr. Jesse Ellsworth Summers

J. Ellsworth Summers, Jr. is a partner with Burr & Forman LLP in Jacksonville, Fla., where he practices in the firm?s Creditor?s Rights and Bankruptcy Practice Group. His practice focuses on assisting lenders in commercial loan litigation in bankruptcy, federal and state courts. Mr. Summers has experience with workouts, business reorganizations and liquidations, distressed-asset acquisitions, special counsel assignments and adversary proceedings. He has represented secured lenders, creditors? committees, local governments, trustees, trade creditors, landlords, unsecured creditors, bondholders, homeowners? associations, § 363 asset purchasers and other stakeholders in a variety of business chapter 11 cases. Mr. Summers has trial experience in federal and state court as a commercial litigator. He represents clients in complex commercial litigation, shareholder and partnership disputes, homeowner association disputes, tax disputes, contract litigation, receiverships, lender liability, commercial evictions, and other real estate-related litigation. In his business practice, Mr. Summers assists clients with purchasing and selling assets, and regularly advises on the impact of insolvency on complex financial transactions. He has appeared before state and federal courts in 13 states, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Virginia. Mr. Summers is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has routinely been named in Florida Super Lawyers, Florida Legal Elite and Florida Best Lawyers. Prior to private practice, he clerked for Hon. Stephen C. St. John, Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia. Ms. Summers received his B.A. cum laude from Hampden-Sydney College and his J.D. cum laude from Stetson University College of Law, where he was a member of the Stetson Law Review.