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Joseph W. Allen is Administrator of the Firm's Litigation practice group.  For more than fifteen years, Mr. Allen has represented financial institutions as well as other creditors, trustees, equipment lessors, debtors and creditors' committees in bankruptcy cases under Chapters 7, 11, 12, and 13 of the Bankruptcy Code. He has been involved in international insolvency proceedings and has successfully represented a foreign representative in a proceeding in the United States under former section 304 of the Bankruptcy Code. He has lectured before business groups on the subject of bankruptcy litigation and creditors' rights. He has successfully tried commercial cases before juries and judges. He is the immediate Past-Chair of the Commercial and Bankruptcy Law Committee of the Bar Association of Erie County.

Principal Area(s) of Practice:

Bankruptcy and Reorganization Law; Creditors' Rights & Restructuring; Commercial Law and Litigation; ERISA Litigation

Education:

Hamilton College (B.A., cum laude, 1986); State University of New York at Buffalo (J.D., 1989); Note and Comment Editor, Buffalo Law Review, 1988-1989

Admissions:

New York State; U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern, Northern, Southern and Western Districts of New York;  U.S. Court of Appeals, Second and Eleventh Circuits; U.S. Supreme Court

Reported Decisions:

• In re Villa 261 F.3d 1148 (11th Cir. 2001)
• Vannest v. Sage, Rutty & Co., Inc. 8 F.Supp.2d 243 (W.D.N.Y. 1998)
• In re Laidlaw USA, Inc. 287 B.R. 603 (Bankr. W.D.N.Y. 2002)
• In re Valerino Construction, Inc. 250 B.R. 39 (Bankr. W.D.N.Y. 2000)
• In re Freudenheim 189 B.R. 279 (Bankr. W.D.N.Y. 1995)

Memberships & Offices:

Erie County Bar Association (Immediate Past-Chair, Commercial and Bankruptcy Law Committee); New York State Bar Association; American Bankruptcy Institute