Mr. Lenard E. Schwartzer

Lenard E. Schwartzer has more than 40 years of experience representing bankruptcy trustees, debtors, debtors in possession and creditors in bankruptcy cases in Nevada, California and New York. He also has been a chapter 7 panel trustee since 2005 and has been appointed in thousands of cases, and he has represented receivers in Nevada District Court and U.S. District Court. Mr. Schwartzer has taught numerous seminars on bankruptcy and bankruptcy litigation. He served on the Local Bankruptcy Rules Committee for the U.S. District Court for Nevada, and he founded and co-chaired the Southern Nevada Association of Bankruptcy Attorneys. Previously, Mr. Schwartzer was a senior partner of Schwartzer & McPherson Law Firm, a member of Mangels, Butler Marmaro & O?Reilly LLC, and a partner and chairman of the bankruptcy department of Hale, Lane, Peek, Dennison, Howard & Anderson, a statewide Nevada law firm (now part of Holland & Hart). He is admitted to practice in Nevada and California, and before the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Schwartzer received his B.S. in banking and finance from New York University School of Commerce in 1971 and his J.D.from Union University Albany Law School in 1974, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and notes editor of the Albany Law Review. \nHis legal practice is now limited to bankruptcy appeals to district courts, the bankruptcy appellate panel and the court of appeals.