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Attorney Profile: Douglas T. Tabachnik

Douglas T. Tabachnik is a member of the Law Offices of Douglas T. Tabachnik, P.C. He has more than 30 years of experience in bankruptcy and commercial and consumer litigation. He is one of only a handful of lawyers in either New York or New Jersey that is certified as a Business Bankruptcy Specialist by the American Board of Certification, a non-profit organization sponsored by the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Commercial Law League of America and recognized by the American Bar Assocation. For the past five years he has chaired the Bankruptcy Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association and has been ranked among the top five percent of New Jersey attorneys by the publishers of the Super Lawyers® list. He received an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating by Martindale-Hubbell®. This rating indicates other legal professionals in the community have found Mr. Tabachnik to have an exemplary knowledge of the law and to have consistently acted in a highly ethical manner.

Douglas T. Tabachnik

Email: dtabachnik@dttlaw.com

Practice areas

Bankruptcy Litigation(30%); Commercial Bankruptcy(30%); Fraudulent Conveyance Litigation(10%); Debtors Rights; Creditors(10%); Commercial Litigation(10%); Insolvency; Debtor and Creditor Rights; Debtor and Creditor Reorganization; Business Fraud; Creditors Rights in Bankruptcy(10%)

Admitted

1981, New York; 1982, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1990, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; 2000, U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit; 2004, U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit; 2008, U.S. Supreme Court; 2009, U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York

Law school

Syracuse University, J.D.

Graduate School

Syracuse University, Whitman School of Management, M.B.A. (Joint Degree with J.D.)

Undergraduate School

George Washington University, B.A. with Special Honors

Memberships

New York State (Chair, Bankruptcy Litigation Committee, Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, 2005 to the present; Committee on Bankruptcy Law, Business Law Section) and New Jersey State (Member, Bankruptcy Section; Legislative Coordinator, 2004) Bar Associations; New York County Lawyers Association (Member, Committee on Corporation Law, 1983; Committee on Bankruptcy Law, 1990); American Bankruptcy Institute (Member, Commercial Fraud Task Force, Committee on Bankruptcy Litigation); Commercial Law League of America; New Jersey Bankruptcy Lawyers Foundation (Trustee, 2004); New York Institute of Credit; Turnaround Management Association

Biography

Associate Member, 1978-1979 and Member, Board of Editors, 1979-1980, Syracuse Law Review

Born

Bronx, New York

Cases

Johns-Manville Corp. v. Chubb Indem. Ins. Co. (In re Johns-Manville Corp.), 517 F.3d 52 (2d Cir 2008); The Asbestos Personal Injury Plainitffs v. Traveler's Indemnity Company, et al. (In re Johns-Manville Corporation), 476 F3d. 118 (2d Cir 2007); In re Dana Corporation, 2008 U.S. Dist Lexis 71430 (S.D.N.Y. 2008); In re Bursztyn, 2007 Bankr. Lexis 1207 (Bankr. D.N.J. 2007); In re Dana Corp. 344 B.R. 35 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2006); Gibbs v. Marine Midland Bank, N.A., 2000 US App Lexis 2000 (2d Cir. 2000); Cassirer v. Herskowitz (In re Schick, et al), 234 B.R. 237 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 1999); Condren v. Harrison (In re Borison), 226 B.R.779 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 1998); In re Strober, 136 B.R. 614 (Bankr. E.D.N.Y. 1992)

Professional activities

  • Mr. Tabachnik has, since 2005, been the Chair of the Bankruptcy Litigation Committee of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association.
  • Mr. Tabachnik has been and continues to be a frequent guest lecturer for the National Business Institute in New York on the topic of bankruptcy and debt collection, and has also lectured on dot-com bankruptcies for the NBI.
  • Mr. Tabachnik has been program chair on bankruptcy litigation forums sponsored by the New York County Lawyers' Association.
  • Mr. Tabachnik has also been program chair for evening forums sponsored by the New York County Lawyers' Association on tax issues in bankruptcy and bankruptcy litigation.
  • Mr. Tabachnik has been guest panelist for a forum on ethical issues in bankruptcy sponsored by the New York County Lawyers' Association.
  • Mr. Tabachnik has been a guest lecturer for the New York County Lawyers' Association Committee on Corporation Law, speaking on issues regarding the piercing of the corporate veil and fiduciary obligations of directors and officers of insolvent business entities.
  • Mr. Tabachnik is a member of the board of trustees of the New Jersey Bankruptcy Lawyers Foundation, a not-for-profit entity devoted to assisting pro bono clients with affording filing fees for access to the bankruptcy courts in New Jersey.
  • Mr. Tabachnik is an active member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the New York State Bar Association Bankruptcy Committee, the New York County Lawyers' Association Business Bankruptcy Committee, the New Jersey State Bar Association Bankruptcy Section, the Turnaround Management Association and the New York Institute of Credit.