Ms. Susan M. Freeman

Susan M. Freeman is a partner with Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP in Phoenix. In addition to her business bankruptcy law practice, she is an appellate lawyer and has briefed more than 300 civil appeals and argued over 100, many of which are bankruptcy appeals, including a U.S. Supreme Court appeal. Ms. Freeman is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference and a Fellow and former director, vice president and secretary of the American College of Bankruptcy. She also is a former chair of the American Bar Association’s Business Bankruptcy Committee. Ms. Freeman is a life member of the American Law Institute and has been a certified specialist in bankruptcy law since 1985. She is a frequent author and lecturer, with particular emphasis on bankruptcy ethics issues, having authored Chapter 172 of Norton Bankruptcy Law & Practice on Professional Responsibility in Bankruptcy Cases and “Are DIP and Committee Counsel Fiduciaries for Their Clients’ Constituents or the Bankruptcy Estate? What Is a Fiduciary, Anyway?,” 17 Amer. Bankr. Inst. L. Rev. 291 (Winter 2009). Ms. Freeman regularly advises lawyers on bankruptcy ethics concerns and on bankruptcy appeals. She is a Fellow and former president of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and co-authored the civil appeals chapter of the Arizona Appellate Handbook. In addition, she was co-counsel for several law professors on amicus curiae briefs in Tennessee Student Assistance Corp. v. Hood, 541 U.S. 440 (2004), and Central Virginia Community College v. Katz, 126 S. Ct. 990, 1004 (2006), and she briefed and argued Hall v. United States of America, 132 S. Ct. 1882 (2012). Ms. Freeman has been listed since 1989 in The Best Lawyers in America for bankruptcy and commercial litigation/appeals, and is also listed in Chambers USA. She received her B.A. with distinction from Mount Holyoke College and her J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1975, where she was a Root‑Tilden‑Snow Scholar.