Hon. Louis H. Kornreich

Hon. Louis H. Kornreich is a retired U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Maine in Bangor and is Of Counsel with Bernstein Shur in Bangor, where he mediates in complex cases. He was initially appointed on April 3, 2001, served as Chief Judge from 2004-11 and was redesignated as Chief Judge on July 1, 2013, until leaving the bench in April 2015. Judge Kornreich was also a member of the FirstCircuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel and was a visiting judge in the Districts of New Hampshire andDelaware. In addition, he served as the representative for the First Circuit on the Bankruptcy JudgesAdvisory Group for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts from 2011-14. As a judge, he presided over some of the largest and most complex reorganization cases in Maine history, including Great Northern Paper, and two Canadian cross-border cases: Androscoggin Energy, a natural gas case covering several North American jurisdictions; and the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway case arising from the Lac Megantic fire. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Kornreich was a senior partner and head of the commercial law and bankruptcy section at the law firm of Gross, Minsky & Mogul PA inBangor. He holds a certificate of completion from the St. Johns/ABI Bankruptcy Mediation TrainingProgram and is a registered mediator in the bankruptcy courts of the Southern District of New York,Delaware and Massachusetts. He has mediated disputes in many types of bankruptcy conflicts including plan confirmations, avoidance cases, disputed claims and adversary proceedings covering a wide range of issues. Judge Kornreich is a member of ABI and currently serves as a co-chair of Special Projects forABI?s Mediation Committee. He also is a member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, and he frequently speaks on mediation and related topics. Judge Kornreich received his J.D. from Catholic University of America in 1974.