Bankruptcy Crimes

Stephanie Wickouski is a lawyer whose practice is concentrated in business bankruptcy, insolvency, and commercial litigation. Ms. Wickouski counsels clients on all aspects of financial and credit relationships. She has extensive litigation experience in complex reorganization cases before federal bankruptcy courts throughout the country, and has written extensively on bankruptcy issues. Her articles have appeared in The National Law Journal, ABA Litigation Magazine, Legal Times, Washington Business Journal and official publications of the District of Columbia, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania State Bar Associations. Recently, she served as the lead counsel to New York Medical Group, P.C. in its recent chapter 11 case in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, and as lead counsel to Newsworld Communications (The Washington Times) in its acquisition of UPI. Ms. Wickouski is the author of Bankruptcy Crimes, the leading authoritative treatise on the subject of bankruptcy fraud. In addition, Ms. Wickouski is a frequent lecturer on bankruptcy, health care insolvency, acquisitions of distressed companies, lender liability, and troubled loans. She has taught creditors' rights at the Catholic University School of Law and was formerly a law clerk to the Hon. Roger M. Whelan, former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Columbia. Prior to entering private practice, she was a trial attorney with the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she received several awards for her handling of litigation in airline bankruptcies. She has served as a panel trustee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and as a mediator for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.Wickouski, Stephanie is the author of 'Bankruptcy Crimes' with ISBN 9781587981173 and ISBN 1587981173.