| Experience
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Paul J. Pascuzzi represents creditors and debtors in virtually every type of bankruptcy case, out of court workout, and commercial litigation. 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 and creditor 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 numerous jurisdictions. He also has represented creditors and defended clients in preference actions in large cases across the country, including cases such as Calpine, Circuit City, Linens N Things, Mervyns, Chrysler and General Motors,. Paul also has represented chapter 11 debtors in complex corporate reorganizations and liquidations, including Large Scale Biology and the recently filed Capital Corp. of the West, a bank holding company. Paul has been listed since 2007 in “The Best Lawyers of America” in the specialization of Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law. Paul has been listed as a “Super Lawyer” in the field of Bankruptcy by Law and Politics Magazine for the years 2005 - 2009.
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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 was recently named as a Fellow of the prestigious American College of Bankruptcy. Paul currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California and is Vice Chair of Member Services. 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 President 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 served two terms as 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 also has 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 regularly volunteers his time to the Voluntary Legal Services Program, Debt Collection Defense Clinic.
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