Robert Harris: Partner
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Areas of Practice:
  • Business Bankruptcy Practice
  • Consumer Bankruptcy Practice
  • Special Practice Areas - High Technology, Environmental Issues, Retail Businesses, Bankruptcy Litigation
Experience

After law school, Mr. Harris served for two years as the law clerk to the Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of California, the Honorable Lloyd King. In the succeeding twelve years, Mr. Harris has represented numerous debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, creditors' committees, and trustees in bankruptcy cases, plaintiffs and defendants in bankruptcy adversary proceedings, and plaintiffs and defendants in State court collection matters.

Education/Honors
  • Martindale Hubbell Peer Review Rated AV
  • University of California, Hastings College of the Law, J.D. 1986
  • Member, Moot Court Board
  • Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Agency & Partnership
  • Judicial Externship, California Court of Appeals, Honorable William A. Newsom, 1984
  • University of California, Berkeley, B.A. Political Economy of Industrial Societies (emphasis U.S.S.R.) with distinction, 1983
  • Pushkin Institute, Moscow, U.S.S.R., Russian Language Studies, 1980
Publications
  • The Disappointed Vendor, P.L.I. (1990), Dealing With the Reorganizing Debtor 1990: Transactions, Negotiations and Litigation
  • The Contested Involuntary Petition, P.L.I. (1990), Dealing With the Reorganizing Debtor 1990: Transactions, Negotiations and Litigation
Memberships/Activities
  • State Bar of California, Martindale hubbell peer rated AV 1986 to present
  • Admitted to Practice, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern Districts of California
  • Member, Santa Clara County Bar Association
  • Chairman, Executive Committee of Commercial Law & Bankruptcy Section, Santa Clara County Bar Association, 1999-2000 and 2000-2001
  • Member, State Bar of California Standing Committee on Insolvency Law 2000-2003
  • Committee Vice-Chairman 2002, Committee Chairman 2003
  • Member, Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum
  • Member corgressmen Don Edwards Bankruptcy Inns of court

Personal
  • Born Santa Ana, California
  • Married, one child
  • Interests include golf, mountain biking, skiing, painting, carpentry