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Paul J. Pascuzzi represents creditors and debtors in virtually every type of bankruptcy, out of court workout, and commercial litigation. For the past several years, Paul has worked as co-counsel with the California Attorney General's Office representing numerous California state agencies in the Pacific Lumber Company, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, Worldcom, and Enron bankruptcies. He has represented landlord clients in complex chapter 11 reorganizations, liquidations and sales of assets including cases such as Global Crossing, GST Telecom, Genuity, Colo.com, Corban Communications, Vartec Telecom and ICG Communications in cases in numerous jurisdictions. He also has represented creditors and defended clients in preference actions in large cases across the country, including cases such as Calpine, Montgomery Wards, Heilig Meyers, Just for Feet, Kmart, and Central Valley Processing. Paul is listed in the 2007 edition of “The Best Lawyers of America” in the specialization of Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor
Rigts Law. Paul was listed as a “Super Lawyer” in the field of Bankruptcy by Law and Politics Magazine for the years 2005 - 2007.
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| Education
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Paul earned his B.A. degree in Business Administration-Finance from Iowa State University in 1986, and his J.D. degree with Great Distinction in 1990 from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. While at McGeorge, Paul gained membership in the Order of the Coif and the Traynor Honor Society. He also received the Prentice Hall Annual Taxation Award in 1990 for outstanding performance in tax subjects.
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| Honors
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Paul currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California. Paul served as a Chair of the Insolvency Law Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California from 2005 - 2006. He is a former Co-Vice Chair of the State Bar Uniform Commercial Code Committee. Paul is a Board member and Secretary of the California Bankruptcy Forum and was a Co-Chair for the 2005 California Bankruptcy Forum 17th Annual Conference and Education Co-Chair for the 2004 16th Annual Conference. He has served as the Secretary and currently is a Board member of the Sacramento Valley Bankruptcy Forum. He has served as member of the UCC Advisory Committee to the Secretary of State’s office and the UCC Committee’s Liaison to the Secretary of State. Since 1998, he has been a panelist at the California Continuing Education of the Bar’s "Recent Developments in Business Law" annual program in Sacramento. Paul has also taught bankruptcy and collection law as a visiting lecturer at California State University, Sacramento. Paul has been a presenter at the Sacramento County Bar Association Business Law, Intellectual Property and Bankruptcy & Commercial Law sections monthly meetings. Paul also periodically donates his time to the Voluntary Legal Services Program, Debt Collection Defense Clinic.
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