Robert E. Kaelin

Robert E. Kaelin is a partner with Harris Beach Murtha Cullina in Hartford, Conn., and co-chairs the firm’s Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Practice Group. He concentrates his practice in commercial litigation and bankruptcy, representing both creditors and debtors in chapter 11, 13 and 7 bankruptcy cases. Mr. Kaelin has represented numerous debtors, creditors’ committees, secured creditors, landlords and trustees. He first joined the firm in 1992, practicing in the areas of civil litigation and bankruptcy. Mr. Kaelin is a member of the Connecticut Bar and the District Courts for the Districts of Connecticut, Vermont and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and he is admitted to practice before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a member of the Litigation and Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Sections of the Connecticut Bar Association, and he is a past chair of the Bankruptcy Section. Mr. Kaelin is a past president of the Hartford County Bar Association and a member of ABI, for which he serves on its Northeast Bankruptcy Conference Advisory Board. He is also a contributing editor to Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice, 3d (Thomson-West) and a faculty member for the Norton Bankruptcy Litigation Institute I in Park City, Utah. Mr. Kaelin has written and lectured on a number of bankruptcy topics. He received his B.A. from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and his J.D. from Duke University.