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Joshua Shepherd
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Dallas, TX
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Practice Areas: Bankruptcy; Business Law; Debtor and Creditor Rights; Commercial Litigation.
Admitted: State Bar of Texas, 2007; United States District Court, Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern Districts of Texas.
Education: Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas (B.A. Communications, May 2002); Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law (J.D., May 2006).
Speaking Engagements
Panelist and speaker at the 2011 Consumer Bankruptcy Practice conference held by the University of Texas School of Law in Galveston, TX August 11-12, 2011. Discussed claim objections and objections to exemptions, how to prepare witnesses for a 341 Meeting of Creditors, and Motions to Extend the Automatic Stay.
Significant Representations
- Representation of secured creditors in both business and consumer bankruptcy cases, in matters encompassing a broad spectrum of issues, including contested plan confirmations, claim allowances, trustee claim recommendations, negotiated turnovers of collateral, and motions to lift the automatic stay.
- Assisted special counsel retained by a national automotive financing company in briefing arguments relating to securitization issues involving 11 U.S.C. ยค 1325.
- First chair in the successful representation of a charitable organization against the appeal of a judgment of forcible detainer.
- Assisted in the successful defense of the client against two separate claims of employment discrimination.
- Representation of clients in defense of a variety of claims made in commercial litigation cases.
- Representation of companies with claims in receivership proceedings.
- Representation of produce companies with PACA claims.
- Representation of judgment debtors and collectors in defense and collection of judgments.
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