1990-present Chapter 7 Panel Trustee, Northern District of Illinois

• Administered more than 10,000 chapter 7 cases
• Pioneered use of Truth in Lending claims in trustee cases
• Administered more than 1,000 assets cases including many highly significant cases such as:
  • IFC Credit Corporation
  • McDonough and Associates
  • Arthur B. Adler and Associates, Ltd.
  • Goldblatt’s Bargain Stores, Inc.
  • Discount Merchandise, Inc.
  • Teknek, Inc.

1999 – Present Law Offices of David P. Leibowitz, LLC
Founder and Managing Member

• Practice built from solo practice in Lake County, Illinois to interstate firm with offices in Illinois and Wisconsin. Now sole office in Chicago.
• Representation of principal as Assignee for the Benefit of Creditors
• Complex bankruptcy, consumer bankruptcy and foreclosure defense in Illinois and Wisconsin
• Foreclosure defense training in Wisconsin under federal grant.
• Counsel to principal in his role as Chapter 7 Trustee and to clients in complex bankruptcy and insolvency matters including student loan resolution
• Expert witness and mediation service

1991-1999 Freeborn & Peters
Partner – Head of Insolvency Practice

• Led practice group of five attorneys and two paralegals.
• Successfully prosecuted to judgment leading case of: Leibowitz v Parkway Bank & Trust Co (In re Image Worldwide, Ltd), 139 F3d 574 (7th Cir. 1998)
• Confirmed numerous chapter 11 cases and represented many secured creditors in real estate reorganization cases
• Represented Creditors Committee in Straight Arrow Products, Inc., (Allentown PA) paying over 65% dividend to unsecured creditors

1976-1990 Schwartz Cooper Kolb & Gaynor Chtd. Chicago, Illinois
Associate, Partner from 1980-1990

• On brief in In re UNR Industries, 736 F.2d 1136 (7th Cir. 1984) establishing the concept of “legal representative” in mass tort bankruptcy cases
• Represented Hon. John Powers Crowley, trustee in significant embezzlement-defalcation case, In re Cooper & Cooper
• Won appeal in leading case of Kramer v. Exchange National Bank of Chicago, 118 Ill. 2d 277, 515 N.E. 2d 57, 113 Ill. Dec. 248 (1987)
• Recovered hidden assets utilizing fraudulent transfer and RICO theories in Leibowitz v. Saleh (In re Discount Merchandise), (1994 Bankr. LEXIS 29 (Bankr. N.D. Ill. 1994) an international bust-out case
• 1990-present American Bankruptcy Institute Washington, DC
• Member, past chair – Unsecured Creditors Committee Subcommittee Contributor to Creditors’ Committee Handbook)
• Past co-chair – Commercial Fraud Committee – Editor in Chief and Principal Author of ABI Fraud Manual
• Past co-chair – Consumer Bankruptcy Committee
• Member of Board of Directors
• Co-chair- Task Force on Individual Chapter 11 cases
• Author of numerous articles in American Bankruptcy Institute Journal
• Speaker at numerous American Bankruptcy Institute conferences

1998-2000 International Law Institute Washington, DC
Senior Faculty Advisor

• Developed and led insolvency training for judges and bankruptcy trustees in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia
• Developed and published Mongolian Bankruptcy Trustee’s Handbook
• Organized Mongolian Bankruptcy Trustees Association
• Served as delegate to Asian Development Bank Insolvency Conference in Manila, Philippines (January, 1999)

National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees

• Past editor and frequent contributor to NABTalk, quarterly journal of National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees.
• Frequent speaker at NABT Conferences
• Past member of the Board of Directors

Chicago Bar Association Chicago, Illinois
Member and past chair of Arbitration Law Committee

• Developed initial plan and rules for court-annexed arbitration in Cook County, Illinois

1974-1976 Illinois Appellate CourtChicago, Illinois
Judicial Clerk to Hon. John C. Hayes

Member – American Bar Association
American Bankruptcy Institute
Chicago Bar Association
Illinois State Bar Association
Wisconsin Bar
National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees
National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys

Admitted: Illinois and Wisconsin, Third, Seventh and Tenth Circuits
Courts of Appeals. District Courts in Illinois, Indiana, Maryland and
Wisconsin.