AREAS OF EMPHASIS
Business Bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Litigation, Creditors' Rights and Insolvency
Janice Alwin represents debtors, trustees, and creditors' committees in all aspects of chapter 7 and chapter 11 proceedings. She also represents secured and unsecured creditors in defense of preference and fraudulent conveyance claims and in connection with the resolution of claim disputes. Ms. Alwin's recent engagements include representation of the chapter 7 trustees for outboard Marine Corporation, National Steel Corporation, Commercial Financial Services, Inc., and Globe Building Materials, Inc. She currently serves as special bankruptcy counsel to Exide Technologies, Inc. in connection with its chapter 11 claims resolution process.
Ms. Alwin has prosecuted more than 1,000 avoidance actions with multiple individual recoveries in excess of $200,000 and aggregate recoveries in excess of $4 million. In addition, her experience includes the timely resolution of claim disputes between represented debtors and creditors, including cure claims after lease assumption, administrative rent and rejection damage claims, reclamation claims, personal injury claims, and other contested matters. Ms. Alwin was also part of the Shaw Gussis team that represented Capital Factors, Inc. on the appeals of the critical vendor orders in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.
EDUCATION
Northern Illinois University (B.S., 1999)
DePaul University College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2002)
LICENSES AND ADMISSIONS
Admitted to bar, 2002, Illinois
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
U.S. Tax Court
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Certified Public Accountant, Illinois (not licensed)
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Chicago Bar Association
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Janice A. Alwin & Jason P. Eckerly, Raising the Tax Bar: Redefining the Roles of Accountants and lawyers For A Practical Solution to the Multidisciplinary Practice Debate, 1 DEPAUL BUS. & COMM. L.J. (Winter 2002)
Comment, Privacy Planning: Putting the Privacy Statutes to Work For You, 14 DEPAUL BUS. L.J. 353 (2002)
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