Charles G. Case II

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Charles G. Case II was a Federal Bankruptcy Court Judge for the United States bankruptcy court, District of Arizona. He was appointed on January 5, 1994 and reappointed on January 5, 2009.[1][2] He was succeeded by Daniel Collins in 2013.[3]

Education

Judge Case graduated cum laude from Harvard University with his Bachelor of Arts degree. Later he graduated magna cum laude from Arizona State University College of Law with his J.D.[4][1][2]

Career

From 1975 to 1988, Case practiced with the law firm of Lewis and Roca in Phoenix. Before his appointment in 1994 he was a member of the Phoenix law firm of Meyer, Hendricks, Victor, Osborn & Maledon, P.A., where he concentrated in bankruptcy, Chapter 11 reorganizations, secured transactions and commercial litigation.[1][2]

Positions and memberships

Case was a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of the American Law Institute, the International Insolvency Institute, the International Exchange of Experience in Insolvency, and the American Bankruptcy Institute. He was also the President of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and a former member of the Board of the Harvard Alumni Association.[1][2]

Work as an author

  • A contributor to the Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law
  • A contributing editor of Matthew Bender's Commercial Law and Practice Guide
  • A contributing editor to the new edition of the Case Management Manual for Bankruptcy Judges
  • He has written on United States bankruptcy law for several publications in Italy[1][2]

International Involvement

Involvement in Prague

Judge Case, Judge Redfield Baum, and attorney Thomas J. Salerno were invited to visit Prague and teach Czech insolvency judges, trustees and practitioners how to write a good reorganization plan, how to value assets, to understand the dynamics of the negotiation among the various interests groups.[5][2]

Presentations

He has made presentations at workshops for judges, lawyers, government officials and business people and/or consulted in bankruptcy, commercial and tax law in the following countries:

  • Italy
  • Czech Republic
  • Romania
  • The Republic of Macedonia
  • Serbia
  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Montenegro
  • The Kyrgyz Republic
  • Kosovo
  • Bosnia-Hercegovina
  • Armenia
  • Slovenia
  • The Russian Federation
  • Brazil
  • Germany
  • Kazakhstan
  • Egypt[2]

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