Mr. David L. Pollack

David L. Pollack is a partner in the Real Estate Department of the Philadelphia office of Ballard Spahr LLP and is the former chair of the firm's Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Capital Recovery and Leasing Practice Groups. He focuses his practice on matters relating to shopping centers with particular empha- sis in the areas of the national representation of landlords in retail bankruptcy matters, representation of tenant interests in landlord bankruptcies and commercial leasing. Mr. Pollack frequently lectures to professional groups on real estate, bankruptcy and commercial leasing issues. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the ABI's and Georgetown Law's Bankruptcy Views from the Bench program, the International Council of Shopping Centers' Law Conference Committee emeritus (having chaired the 2011 conference) and chair of ICSC's Bankruptcy Task Force. He has been recognized as a Pennsyl- vania Super Lawyer for 2004-15, is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for 2008-15 and in The Inter- national Who's Who of Business Lawyers â?? Real Estate for 2013-14, and has been regularly named by The Deal as one of the most active bankruptcy practitioners in the country. Mr. Pollack recently served as a consultant to the Committee on Executory Contracts and Leases of ABI's Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11. He is a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and a member of the American and Philadelphia Bar Associations, having chaired that association's Real Property and Young Lawyers Sections. Mr. Pollack is a graduate of Trinity College and the Law School of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania.