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PWK in "Best Law Firms" Top-Tier Spot

Smallest-sized firm named in first-tier category. Quality counsel isn't a quantity proposition but a matter of strategic sophistication and experience.
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A Business Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Litigation Boutique

Founded by veteran attorneys from elite, global law firms, Peitzman, Weg & Kempinsky LLP provides clients sophisticated counsel, cutting-edge theories and novel solutions that yield real world and business-practical, successful results.

Our partners’ collective experience spans decades of practice involving important, and often high-profile, business restructuring, bankruptcy, and commercial litigation matters in California and nationwide.  Our clients include:

  • Troubled companies
  • Chapter 11 debtors
  • Creditors and creditors’ committees
  • Institutional lenders
  • Bondholders
  • Buyers of assets and claims
  • Directors and officers
  • Franchisors and franchisees
  • Landlords and tenants
  • Private equity and hedge funds
  • Shareholders, partners, members
  • Bankruptcy trustees
  • Liquidating and litigation trusts

Rankings by legal peers and clients place PWK among top-tier law firms 100 times larger in size, a qualitative distinction we achieved by maximizing the advantages of a high-performance boutique.  Clients recognize the PWK difference by our continuity of hands-on senior attorneys, tactical resources, efficiency and the powerful reach of specialized practice expertise.

Throughout our website you can learn how PWK attorneys turn tough cases around and innovate case strategies and structures adopted by the Bankruptcy Bar today.

Peitzman, Weg & Kempinsky Attorneys Remain “Super Lawyers” in 2012
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TMA Elects James P. Menton, Jr. to its Southern CA Board of Directors
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Scott Gautier Speaks on "Lender-Liability Claims Rising Again" at ABI Rocky Mountain Bankruptcy Conference
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Read Howard Weg's Tips for Building Your Bankruptcy Book of Business
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PWK Welcomes Two Bankruptcy Attorneys -- Lauren N. Gans and Tania M. Moyron
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Major Media Mentions for PWK's Counsel to Chapter 11 Debtors
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Financial Lawyers Conference: David Shemano Presents Program on Constructive Trusts
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U.S. News-Best Lawyers Ranks Peitzman, Weg & Kempinsky LLP in Top-Tier Spot, Lawyer of the Year and Adds BK Litigation
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"Safe Harbor" in Enron, Quebor and Picard is Focus of ABA Newsletter Article by PWK's Weg and Russo
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Pleading Preference Claims: Practical Tips From PWK's James Menton, Jr.
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Best Lawyers Awards Lawrence Peitzman “Lawyer of the Year 2012”
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Chambers USA 2011 Recognizes Peitzman, Weg & Kempinsky LLP
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Winning and Losing: The Battle Over D&O Insurance in Bankruptcy
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Objections to Bankruptcy Sales
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Clear Channel: An Appeal For Reinterpretation
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A Primer on Chapter 11 for the Non-Bankruptcy Lawyer
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October 2011
  • Can You Sail Into The Safe Harbor?
  • Circuit Courts Split Decisions On Credit Bidding
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March 2011
  • Between Possibility And Plausibility:  New Federal Requirements Influence Bankruptcy Litigation
  • Circult Court Rules On When IP License Is An Executory Contract 
  • Stalking Horses:  When Is A Break Up Fee Appropriate?
  • Creditors And LLCS:  Membership Interests And Derivative Standing
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October 2010
  • Lenders Beware:  The Turning Tide Of Lender Liability
  • Contingent Equitable Indemnity Claims Dischargeable In Bankruptcy
  • Eighth Circuit Rejects Clear Channel Decision
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