Mr. James I. Stang

James I. Stang is a founding partner of Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP in Los Angeles and has broad experience in bankruptcy reorganization. He has acted as a chapter 11 trustee and receiver in numerous cases, primarily for car dealerships and real property cases. Mr. Stang has lectured and written extensively on both bankruptcy and receivership issues. He is representing the official tort committee in the Takata chapter 11 case, involving the largest recall in the history of the U.S. He has also been lead counsel for creditors? committees in Catholic Church-related bankruptcies, including Spokane, Stock-ton, Gallup, Davenport, Wilmington, Milwaukee, Fairbanks, Helena, Great Falls and San Diego, and in religious order bankruptcies, including Christian Brothers of Ireland and the Society of Jesus, OregonProvince. Mr. Stang is a member of the American College of Bankruptcy. He holds an AV-Preeminentrating from Martindale-Hubbell, has been named a ?Super Lawyer? in the field of Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights every year since 2005 in a peer survey conducted by Law & Politics and the publishers of Los Angeles magazine, and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America. In 2010, the CenturyCity Bar Association named him ?Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year,? and in 2011 he was inducted as aFellow into the American College of Bankruptcy. Mr. Stang is admitted to practice in California. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley and received his J.D. from Hastings College of Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and editor-in-chief of the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review.