Leonard C. Walczyk

Mr. Walczyk joined the firm of Wasserman, Jurista & Stolz, P.C. in 1990 and became a member in 2000, and has represented debtors, creditors and trustees in bankruptcy, corporate reorganizations, workouts, and related litigation in federal and state court insolvency proceedings. Mr. Walczyk has represented and advised individuals, commercial landlords, trade creditors, secured and unsecured lenders, creditor committees, bankruptcy trustees and businesses in diverse industries such as information technology, manufacturing, construction, architecture, transportation, health care, banking and finance, wholesale and retail distribution, professional/personal services and real estate development. He has dealt extensively with the restructuring of tax liabilities, intellectual property issues, and acquisitions of assets from bankruptcy estates.

Mr. Walczyk was a featured speaker at the 1991 Georgetown University Law Center Advanced Computer Law Institute regarding issues in computer industry bankruptcies. Mr. Walczyk has lectured for the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education on the topic of strategic asset protection planning. He is a Master of the New Jersey Bankruptcy Inns of Court for the 1998 and 1999 terms, and was a panelist at the First Annual Hon. William H. Gindin Bankruptcy Bench Bar Conference in April, 1999. Mr. Walczyk was a featured speaker at a public seminar on Personal Bankruptcy Law for the New Jersey State Bar Foundation in October of 2002.

Mr. Walczyk currently serves as a panel mediator for the Superior Court of New Jersey Essex County Chancery Division Early Settlement Program.

A contributor for the New Jersey Bar Association Bankruptcy Section Newsletter, Mr. Walczyk is the author of "Property of the Debtor's Estate: 'Work Made For Hire' and Other Ownership Issues in Software Industry Bankruptcies," for the American Bar Association monograph, "Computer Industry Bankruptcy Issues: Trends in the Law," presented at ABA Section of Science and Technology Committee on Bankruptcy in the Computer Industry Seminar, August 7, 1990. Mr. Walczyk has also authored the bankruptcy section of the treatise "Residential Real Estate Law and Practice in New Jersey (Fifth Edition)." Mr. Walczyk's most recent publication is "An Overview of Taxation Issues in Bankruptcy," published in the June, 2001 issue of New Jersey Lawyer, The Magazine.

Mr. Walczyk is a 1982 graduate of Syracuse University with a dual B.S. in Marketing and Public Relations and received his Juris Doctorate from New York Law School in 1989. He is admitted to practice before the Supreme and Federal District Courts of New Jersey and the United States Supreme Court and Third Circuit Court of Appeals.