Prof. Kenneth N. Klee

Kenneth N. Klee is a professor emeritus at UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles and a founding partner of Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, where he specializes in corporate reorganization, in- solvency and bankruptcy law. He has also served as an expert witness, mediator, arbitrator, attorney and consultant, and is a member of ABI's Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11. From 1974-77, Prof. Klee served as associate counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary and was one of the principal drafters of the 1978 Bankruptcy Code. He also served as a member of the executive committee of the National Bankruptcy Conference from 1985-88, 2005-08 and 2011-13, and he has chaired the NBC's Committee to Rethink Chapter 11 and its Legislation Committee. Prof. Klee is past president of the Financial Lawyers Conference and serves on its board of governors. He has also served as chairman of the Subcommittee of New and Pending Legislation of the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the Section on Corporations, Business and Banking Law of the American Bar Associa- tion. In 2013, Prof. Klee was inducted into the Turnaround Management Association's Bankruptcy Hall of Fame. He also received the American Inns of Court 2013 Distinguished Service Award. Prof. Klee is a frequent lecturer and panelist for the American Law Institute/American Bar Association. He authored Bankruptcy and the Supreme Court (LexisNexis 2008) and co-authored Business Reorganization in Bankruptcy (1995; 2d ed., 2001; 3d ed., 2006; 4th ed., 2011) and Fundamentals of Bankruptcy Law (4th ed., 1996), and he has authored or co-authored more than 30 law review articles on bankruptcy law. In 2010, Prof. Klee served as the appointed examiner in the Tribune chapter 11 cases, and from 2011-14 he represented Jefferson County, Ala., in its chapter 9 bankruptcy case. Recently, he represented defen- dants Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Kerr McGee in Tronox v. Anadarko (Bankr. S.D.N.Y). Prof. Klee received his A.B. from Stanford in 1971 and his J.D. from Harvard in 1974.