Mr. John W. Lucas

John W. Lucas is a partner in Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP's San Francisco office, where he represents debtors and creditors in chapter 11 cases and companies in out-of-court restructurings with an emphasis on transportation, financial products, automotive, retail and technology. His recent debtor representations include Blue Earth, Inc., Response Genetics, Inc., NewZoom, Inc., Z'Tejas Restaurants, Elephant Bar Restaurants, Highway Technologies, American Suzuki Motor Corp. and Mesa Airlines. Mr. Lucas is a co-author of Debtor-in-Possession Financing: Funding a Chapter 11 Case (ABI 2012), First Day Motions: A Guide to the Critical First Days of a Bankruptcy Case, Third Edition (ABI 2012) and "The Role and Retention of the Chief Restructuring Officer" in The Americas Restructuring and Insolvency Guide (Globe White Page 2008-09). He is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and received his J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law, where he was a member of the Oregon Law Review.