Don has more than twenty years' experience in providing legal representation in all phases and types of Chapter 11 proceedings and business restructures and work-outs. Before joining Felderstein Fitzgerald Willoughby & Pascuzzi LLP in 2001, Don was a senior shareholder of Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, serving as head of its Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Practice Group for over 15 years. Don's representation includes lenders, lessors, debtors, trustees, creditors’ committees, and purchasers of assets in business reorganizations and wind downs. Don is experienced in representing lenders in bankruptcy courts on such matters as cash collateral, post petition financing, relief from stay, lien avoidance, and contested confirmation hearings. His representation of commercial creditors also regularly includes administering foreclosure of real and personal property and documentation of out of court workouts.

Don received his bachelor’s degree in 1976 from the University of California, Davis, and his Juris Doctor in 1979 from the University of Arizona. He graduated with High Distinction from law school, was inducted into the Order of the Coif, and enjoys an “AV” rating from Martindale Hubbel.

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Don is a 2003 inductee into the American College of Bankruptcy. He is a member of the state bars of California and Arizona, and is a former president of the Sacramento County Bar Association’s Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section. He completed a three year term as an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Valley Bankruptcy Forum, serving as its president in 1998. Don was a board member of the California Bankruptcy Forum from 1998 through 2001, and in 2002 co-chaired the Forum's Annual Conference. Don served for three years (1993-1996) as an appointed member of the State Bar Business Section’s Committee on Debtor/Creditor Relations and Bankruptcy, which reviews and proposes legislation on issues of importance to the lending community. Don speaks frequently for bar groups and professional associations on bankruptcy and workouts.

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