For Immediate Release
March 16, 1999

Contact:
Beryl Wolfe
(207) 775-5115
Web Site: http://www.mainelaw.com

Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson attorney Robert J. Keach, a leading Maine bankruptcy attorney with a practice that extends throughout New England, was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy in a ceremony last Friday, March 12 in Washington, D.C.

Keach was one of 33 nominees from the U.S. and abroad inducted into the Tenth Class of College Fellows. All were recognized for their "professional excellence and exceptional contributions to the fields of bankruptcy and insolvency," according to the college. The American College of Bankruptcy, based in Fairfax, Virginia, is an honorary professional and educational association of bankruptcy and insolvency professionals which plays an important role in sustaining professionalism in the field. Nominees are selected by a Board of Regents from among recommendations of the Circuit Admissions Council in each federal judicial circuit and specially-appointed Committees for Judicial and Foreign Fellows.

Keach, who joined Bernstein, Shur in 1994, is a resident of Falmouth. He serves as the national chairperson of the American Bankruptcy Institute's Subcommittee on Partnership and Partner Bankruptcy and is also active in five American Bar Association sections, including business, banking and corporations, real estate, litigation and the Business Bankruptcy and Foreclosure and Creditors' Rights Subcommittees. In Maine, Keach is a member of the Maine State Bar Association's (MSBA) section on bankruptcy and reorganization.

Keach's work in Maine and elsewhere in the U.S. has included numerous major Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, workouts and restructurings on behalf of debtors, landlords, creditor committees and secured lenders.

Keach is a 1980 cum laude graduate of the University of Maine School of Law in Portland, where he was Research Editor for the Maine Law Review. He earned his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Vermont, graduating magna cum laude in 1977.

Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson is one the state's largest law firms with more than 60 lawyers in offices in Portland and Augusta. The firm provides legal services in all major subject areas and has departments in corporate and commercial law, litigation and trials, municipal and governmental affairs and tax and estate planning. The firm also has a substantial practice in intellectual property, technology and commerce, bankruptcy and insolvency, legislative affairs, employment law, health care law, public utilities and other regulated industries.


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