Ms. Kathy Bazoian Phelps

Kathy Bazoian Phelps is a partner at Raines Feldman Littrell LLP in Los Angeles and has more than 30 years of practice in the areas of insolvency law, fiduciary representation and fraud litigation. Her practice includes representing federal equity and state court receivers and bankruptcy trustees, as well as serving as a fiduciary herself. Ms. Phelps frequently serves as special litigation counsel for fiduciaries and interested parties in fraud-related litigation or cases arising out of receivership and bankruptcy cases. She is particularly knowledgeable about the administration of Ponzi scheme cases and has litiga- tion experience in claims arising in these types of cases. Ms. Phelps has lectured widely and written on bankruptcy and receivership matters, with a focus on Ponzi schemes. Her book The Ponzi Book: A Legal Resource for Unraveling Ponzi Schemes, co-authored with retired Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes, has garnered national and international attention as the authoritative work on Ponzi scheme law. She also is author of Ponzi-Proof Your Investments: An Investor?s Guide to Avoiding Ponzi Schemes and Other Fraudulent Scams (IRR Publishing 2013), a co-author of Fraud and Forensics: Piercing Through the Deception in a Commercial Fraud Case (American Bankruptcy Institute 2015) and The Depths of Deepening Insolvency: Damage Exposure For Officers, Directors and Others (American Bankruptcy Institute 2013), and author of The Ponzi Scheme Blog at www.theponzischemeblog.com. In addition to her roles as lawyer, speaker and author, Ms. Phelps has served as a mediator. She received her B.A. in international relations from Pomona College and her J.D. from University of California, Los Angeles in 1991.

Kathy Bazoian Phelps