Ms. Susan M. Freeman

Susan M. Freeman is a partner with Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP, in Phoenix. In addition to her business bankruptcy law practice, she is an appellate lawyer and has briefed more than 300 civil appeals and argued over 100, many of which are bankruptcy appeals, including a U.S. Supreme Court appeal. Ms. Freeman is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference and a Fellow and former director, vice president and secretary of the American College of Bankruptcy. She also is the chair of theAmerican Bar Association?s Business Bankruptcy Committee and previously chaired several sub committees. Ms. Freeman is a life member of the American Law Institute and has been a certified specialist in bankruptcy law since 1985. She is a frequent author and lecturer, having authored Chapter 172 ofNorton Bankruptcy Law & Practice on Professional Responsibility in Bankruptcy Cases and ?Are DIPand Committee Counsel Fiduciaries for Their Clients? Constituents or the Bankruptcy Estate? What isa Fiduciary, Anyway?? 17 Amer. Bankr. Inst. L. Rev. 291 (Winter 2009). Ms. Freeman is a Fellow and\nformer president of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and co-authored the civil appeals chapter of the Arizona Appellate Handbook. She was co-counsel for several law professors on amicuscuriae briefs in Tennessee Student Assistance Corp. v. Hood, 541 U.S. 440 (2004), and Central VirginiaCommunity College v. Katz, 126 S. Ct. 990, 1004 (2006), and she briefed and argued Hall v. UnitedStates of America, 132 S. Ct. 1882 (2012). Ms. Freeman has been listed since 1989 in The Best Lawyers in America for bankruptcy and commercial litigation/appeals, and in Chambers USA. She received herB.A. with distinction from Mount Holyoke College and her J.D. from New York University School ofLaw in 1975, where she was a Root-Tilden Scholar.