Ms. Cassandra M. Porter

Cassandra M. Porter is counsel to Lowenstein Sandler LLP's Bankruptcy, Financial Reorganization & Creditors' Rights Department in Roseland, N.J., where she focuses her practice exclusively on bank- ruptcy, restructuring, debtor/creditor law and bankruptcy litigation, representing creditor committees, unsecured creditors and debtors. Prior to joining Lowenstein Sandler, she clerked for Hon. Cecelia G. Morris of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York and was the assistant man- aging attorney at Kaye Scholer LLP, where her practice focused exclusively on federal and state civil litigation matters. Ms. Porter is admitted to practice in both New York and New Jersey state courts and before the U.S. District Courts of New Jersey, as well as the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York. She serves as secretary and a member of the board of directors of The Financial Clinic, a leading nonprofit dedicated to helping the working poor build financial security, and she co-chairs "What It Is (Really) Like to Practice Law as a Woman," an annual event co-sponsored by the New York Women's Bar Association and the Association of the Bar for the City of New York. Ms. Porter received her undergraduate degree cum laude from Hunter College, her M.I.S. from Pratt Institute and her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, where she was a member of the National Moot Court Honor Society.