Associate License

Jessica G. Berman

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Cedarhurst, NY 11516 202-***-****

Education Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC

Juris Doctor, February 2007

GPA: 3.32

Honors: Dean's List (2003-2004)

Journal: The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, Managing

Editor

Seminar "Winners, Losers, and Increased Salinity: An Analysis of

Paper: Possible Eminent Domain Claims Resulting from a Diversion

of the Mississippi River"

Internship U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural

Resources Division

Hunter College, New York, NY

Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in Political Science, June 2001

GPA: 3.7 (Cumulative); 3.9 (Major)

Honors: Dean's List (1997-2001)

Political Science Departmental Honors

Joan Pincus Political Science Award (1999, 2000)

Honors "The Effect of National Stressors on Corruption in One

Thesis: Party Democracies"

Experience Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein P.C., Garden City, NY

Associate, 2009-Present

Represent debtors and creditors in chapter 7, 11, and 15 cases.

Draft various bankruptcy documents and motions, including documents

relating to Bankruptcy Code sections 363, 365, and 542, and Bankruptcy

Rule 9019.

Prosecute and defend fraudulent transfer and preference actions.

Multiple appearances before the Southern District of New York's

Bankruptcy Court.

Questioned witness at Rule 2004 examination.

Negotiate with claims traders for sale of distressed debt.

Appealed adversary proceeding to the United States Court of Appeals.

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, New York, NY

Associate, 2007-2008; Summer Associate, Summer 2005

Participated in major chapter 11 cases, as counsel to the debtor.

Researched and wrote memoranda on debtor- and creditor-side bankruptcy

matters.

Reviewed and revised contracts relating to bankruptcy remote entities.

Publication Co-Author, "Can Section 547 be used to Avoid Foreign Transaction? The

s Extraterritorial Application of Preference Laws," ABI Journal (March

2011)

"Seventh Circuit Decides Issues Regarding FCC License After NextWave

and Permits Third Party Releases," Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law

(January 2009), originally published in CWT Restructuring Review (May

2008)

"Case Law Update: Obtaining Foreign Main Proceeding Status Under

Chapter 15 Becomes Increasingly Difficult," CWT Restructuring Review

(April 2008)

Co-Author, "Family Law: Adoption and Foster Care," The Georgetown

Journal of Gender and The Law (Volume VI, Number III 2005)

License Admitted to New York State Bar, 2008, Southern and Eastern Districts of

New York, 2010

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