Hon. Leif M. Clark
Hon. Leif M. Clark is a retired U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Texas in San Antonio, appointed in 1987, and is a consultant with Leif M Clark Consulting in San Antonio. He provides mediation and consulting services for a broad spectrum of commercial matters both domestically and internationally. Judge Clark authored more than 300 judicial opinions during his 25 years on the bench, a number of which are considered seminal. During his tenure on the bench, he also actively served as a mediator for complex matters, many involving multiple parties. Judge Clark has continued mediations as part of his private consulting practice in Texas, as well as in Florida, California, Maryland, Montana,Oklahoma, Delaware and New York. He also has served as a consulting expert on bankruptcy matters in domestic and international litigation and has provided consulting assistance for both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. In addition, he has testified as an expert on bankruptcy and in-solvency matters in both state and federal courts. Judge Clark is a sought-after speaker on a wide range of insolvency issues and the author of a chapter for the most widely cited bankruptcy treatise, Collieron Bankruptcy. He served as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law, where he taught both basic bankruptcy and advanced bankruptcy seminars. For many years, he also taught U.S.Constitutional Law to international students from over 20 countries as part of the McGeorge UniversityInternational Masters of Laws degree program in Salzburg, Austria. Judge Clark has also participated in numerous international efforts, including as an adviser to the American Law Institute?s TransnationalInsolvency Law project, as well as the development and administration of a USAID-sponsored judicial training program for judges in the emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe. He was a member of the consulting committee for the U.S. delegation to UNCITRAL?s Working Group V, which was then drafting the Model Cross-Border Insolvency Law. From 2004-13, he was a member of the U.S.delegation to that Working Group, contributing to the completion of the Legislative Guide on InsolvencyLaw, the Practice Guide to Cross Border Insolvency and, most recently, re-drafting the Guide to Enactment of the Model Law on Cross Border Insolvency. Judge Clark is a member of the American College of Bankruptcy and the National Bankruptcy Conference. He completed his undergraduate work with honors at the University of Maryland in College Park, obtained a master of divinity from Trinity Luther-an Seminary and received his J.D. from the University of Houston School of Law, where he graduated with honors and was a published editor in the Houston Law Review.
Hon. Leif M. Clark