Leif M. Clark
Leif M Clark Consulting
Honorable Leif Clark served as a bankruptcy judge for the Western District of Texas for over 25 years, retiring at the end of 2012. During his time on the bench, he published over 300 decisions, many considered to be seminal, on a wide spectrum of insolvency issues, both corporate and consumer. He has been a frequent speaker and lecturer throughout the U.S., and has published a number of academic papers on insolvency issues. For the past twenty years, he has been the lead speaker for a concentrated chapter 11 program presented as part of the Norton Institutes programs on bankruptcy law. Judge Clark presided over one of the earlier cross-border matters, Inverworld, involving four nations, guiding the case to a successful resolution. He also served on the ALI Transnational Law Project (involving Canada, Mexico and the U.S.), and was a member of the U.S. delegation to Working Group V of UNCITRAL from 2005 through 2013. He is a contributing author to Collier, the leading bankruptcy treatise in the U.S., authoring a chapter on Chapter 15 (the U.S. enactment of the Model Law on Cross Border Insolvency). His publications and writings have been cited at the circuit level in matters involving cross-border insolvency. Judge Clark has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law, as well as at the McGeorge International LLM program in Salzburg, Austria, teaching non-U.S. students American Constitutional Law. He also assisted in the design of and later administered a judicial training program for judges in the CEE countries, on behalf of USAID in the late 1990's. He personally co-led training programs in Latvia, Poland, Romania and Ukraine, involving a total of over 200 judges. For the past twenty years or so, Judge Clark has served as a mediator in a wide variety of disputes, and has continued an active nationwide mediation practice since he left the bench. He also serves as a consultant on insolvency matters (including cross-border disputes) as well as an expert witness. He is also available as an independent arbitrator for commercial disputes. Judge Clark is a member (and past executive committee member) of the National Bankruptcy Conference, the American College of Bankruptcy, the American Bankruptcy Institute (past officer and member of the executive committee), INSOL International, and the International Insolvency Institute. www.leifmclark.com
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