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Howard Karasik has concentrated in insolvency and bankruptcy matters for almost forty years. He is a past member of the Board of Governors of the Bankruptcy Bar Association and a member of the Bankruptcy Referral panel of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is also on the Bankruptcy Committee of the Bar Association of the State of New York. He is a frequent lecturer on insolvency matters before credit and bar association groups such as Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York County Lawyers Bar Association, the New York City Institute of Credit, and the Bankruptcy Bar Association. He has also lectured at the N.Y.U. Real Estate Institute. He is an honors graduate of Brooklyn College and Harvard Law School and a member of the New York State Bar, District of Columbia Bar, and the Federal Bar. Mr. Karasik is the author of the article entitled "The Doctrine of Marshalling Under the Bankruptcy Code" which appeared in the February 1984 edition of the Commercial Law Journal, the article entitled "Extending the Debtor’s Exclusive Right to File a Plan of Reorganization" which appeared in the August/September 1985 edition of the Commercial Law Journal, and the article entitled "Standing to Initiate Adversary Proceedings in a Bankruptcy Case" which appeared in the Spring 1987 edition of the Commercial Law Journal. He has appeared in Bankruptcy Courts in such diverse jurisdictions as New York, Iowa and Texas, and Appellate Courts such as the New York State Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Mr. Karasik has represented innumerable debtors, creditors committees, and individual creditors in debtor/creditor and bankruptcy matters. Because many of his clients have been involved in turn-around situations Mr. Karasik has frequently been called upon to lend his managerial skills to his clients to facilitate their reorganization.

Bar Admissions

• New York
• Iowa
• Texas
• N.Y. Court of Appeals
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
• U.S. Supreme Court

Education

• Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1961
  J.D.
  Honors: Honors
  
  
• Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York, 1958
  B.A.
  Honors: Summa Cum Laude
  Honors: Honors
  
  

Published Works

• Author, "The Doctrine of Marshalling Under the Bankruptcy Code", Commercial Law Journal, February, 1984
• Author, "Extending the Debtor's Exclusive Right to File a Plan of Reorganization", Commercial Law Journal, August/September, 1985
• Author, "Standing to Initiate Adversary Proceedings in a Bankruptcy Case", Commercial Law Journal, Spring, 1987

Representative Cases

• Otte v. U. S., 95 S.Ct. 247 (U.S.N.Y. 1974)

References

• First Women's Bank

Classes/Seminars Taught

• Lecturer, Insolvency Matters, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• Lecturer, Insolvency Matters, New York County Lawyers Bar Association
• Lecturer, Insolvency Matters, New York City Institute of Credit
• Lecturer, Insolvency Matters, Bankruptcy Bar Association
• Lecturer, N.Y.U. Real Estate Institute

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Bankruptcy Bar Association, 1978 - 1985
  Past Member, Board of Governors
  
  
• Bankruptcy Referral panel of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
  Member
  
  
• Bar Association of the State of New York
  Bankruptcy Committee
  
  
• New York State Bar
  Member
  
  
• District of Columbia Bar
  Member
  
  
• Federal Bar
  Member
  
  

Fraternities/Sororities

• Phi Beta Kappa

Birth Information

• April 1, 1937, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America