LEONORA K. BAUGHMAN
 

Partner
March 2001 – Present

Specializes in Creditors Rights and Insolvency Law focusing on Insolvency, Corporate, Consumer and Commercial Litigation and Bankruptcy, Real Property Remedies for Creditors, Real Property Transactions, and General Corporate Counseling.

 

EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND

Chrysler Insurance Company, Vice President (1997 – 2001)
Chrysler Financial Corporation, Staff Attorney (1987-1997)
Foster, Swift, Collins & Coey, P.C., Associate (1981 – 1986)

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE

Admitted to the State Bar of Michigan, 1981
United States District Court
Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan

EDUCATION

University of Michigan (B.A., Political Science and Economics, 1977)
University of Notre Dame Law School  (J.D. 1981)

LEGAL MEMBERSHIPS

State Bar of Michigan, United States District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan.  Positions within the State Bar of Michigan include Business Law Section, Vice Chair, Secretary and Treasurer, Chair of In House Counsel Committee.  Other memberships include American Bankruptcy Institute, American Bar Association, and National Association of Female Executives.

PRESENTATIONS

Preserving a Security Interest in the Age of Restructuring and Relocations, Business Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan, May 20-21, 1994.

Automobile Financing and Leasing Issues, Second Annual Consumer Bankruptcy Seminar, Nashville, Tennessee and San Francisco, California, Summer, 1994.

Secured Creditors in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Proceedings; Fourth Annual Commercial Law Seminar for the State Bar of Michigan, 1993.  Consumer Issues – Chapter 7, Central States Bankruptcy Workshop, June 7 – 10, 2001.

PUBLICATIONS

Secured Creditors in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Proceedings, Michigan Business Law Journal, Vol. XIV, No. 3.