Ms. Leslie Ann Berkoff

Leslie A. Berkoff is a partner with Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP in Garden City, N.Y., where she chairs the firm's Litigation and Bankruptcy Practice Group and co-chairs its Diversity & Inclusion Committee. Ms. Berkoff concentrates her practice in the area of bankruptcy and restructuring litiga- tion and corporate workouts, and she represents a variety of corporate debtors, trustees, creditors and creditor committees both nationally and locally. Her practice also includes an emphasis on equipment leasing and health care law. Ms. Berkoff has experience in commercial litigation and corporate transactions. In addition to her practice, she frequently serves as a mediator and is on the Mediation Panels for the Eastern, Southern and Northern Districts of the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts in New York, Delaware and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and she serves on the Commercial Mediation Panel for Nassau County. Ms. Berkoff has also served as a court-appointed examiner and guardian ad litem in several bankruptcy cases, and she currently chairs the Mediation Subcommit- tee of the Chapter 11 Lawyers and Judges Advisory Committee for the Eastern District of New York Bankruptcy Court. Recently, she was appointed to serve as a member of the Dispute Resolution Section Advisory Council of the American Bar Association (ABA). Prior to joining Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP, Ms. Berkoff clerked for Hon. Jerome Feller, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge in the Eastern District of New York, from 1991-93 and to Hon. Allyne R. Ross, Federal Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of New York, from 1990-91. She received her B.A. cum laude in 1987 from the State University of Albany and her J.D. in 1990 from Hofstra University School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Hofstra Labor Law Journal.