The Washington, DC Network joined with ABI, TMA, and the IWIRC Greater Maryland Network for the Annual Top of the Town Networking Event on May 27. IWIRC attendees enjoyed mingling and networking with fellow restructuring and turnaround professionals on the rooftop of Arnold & Porter’s Washington, DC office.
Member News
Leyza F. Blanco, a shareholder at Gray Robinson in Miami, Florida, published The Power of Women Working Together in The Woman Advocate, American Bar Association, on June 12, 2015, available here.
Maria Ellena Chavez-Rurak (Saul Ewing LLP) has assumed the position of President Elect of the Bankruptcy Bar Association for the District of Maryland. On June 3-5, 2015, Maria, along with Jovi Bohan (Stout Risius Ross, Inc.), Linda Donhauser (Miles & Stockbridge P.C.), Susan Klein (Gordon Feinblatt LLC), and Susan J. Roberts (Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP) served on panels at the 31st Annual Conference of the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors in Philadelphia.
Marguerite Lee DeVoll (Linowes and Blocher LLP) was admitted to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland on August 5, 2015.
IWIRC Georgia Network member, the Hon. Mary Grace Diehl (Bankr. N.D. Ga.), will take the helm as President of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges at the annual meeting in Miami, Sept. 27-30, 2015. She will remain in this office for one year until the next annual meeting in San Francisco.
Corinne Donohue (Yumkas, Vidmar & Sweeney, LLC) was admitted to the United States District Court and the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia on May 4, 2015.
Gabrielle Duvall (Linowes and Blocher LLP) has assumed the position of Treasurer of the Bankruptcy Bar Association for the District of Maryland.
Rosa Evergreen, Co-Chair of the Washington, DC Network and a partner at Arnold & Porter LLP, spoke on a panel about Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law with Chief Judge Stephen C. St. John, Eastern District of Virginia Bankruptcy Court, for the Twenty-Third Annual Tidewater Bankruptcy Conference in Virginia Beach, VA on June 12, 2015.
Leyza Blanco
Jovi Bohan
Maria Ellena Chavez-Rurak
Marguerite Lee DeVoll
Hon. Mary Grace Diehl
Linda Donhauser
Corinne Donohue
Gabrielle Duvall