Southern California Bankruptcy and Civil Litigation Lawyers
Daniel J. Weintraub
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Mr. Weintraub earned his Bachelor's degree in 1982 from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1987 he received his Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California, where he served as the Chair of the Hale Moot Court Honors Program.
Mr. Weintraub specializes in Chapter 11 reorganization, debt restructure and negotiation, consumer bankruptcy, insolvency counseling and litigation, creditor’s rights and other aspects of debtor/creditor representation. Mr. Weintraub began his career at the premiere boutique bankruptcy law firm Levene & Eisenberg. He then became the senior associate in the Banking and Finance Department of nationally recognized firm Sheppard, Mullen, Richter & Hampton, and has also served as in-house counsel for City National Bank. Mr. Weintraub established his own firm in 1992, and formed Weintraub Law Corporation in 2001, now known as Weintraub & Selth, APC.
Mr. Weintraub is a member of the Los Angeles County and the Beverly Hills Bar Associations and the Individual and Consumer Bankruptcy Sub-Committee of the LA County Bar Section on Commercial Law and Bankruptcy. As a longstanding member of Provisors, an alliance of senior level professionals from the fields of law, accounting, banking, finance, insurance and consulting, he is able to refer his clients to trustworthy, accountable, seasoned professionals in virtually any field.
Mr. Weintraub represents debtors and creditors in all chapters of the United States Bankruptcy Code. He also has extensive experience representing debtors and creditors in workouts and restructures before state and federal courts.
James R. Selth
Mr. Selth is a graduate of University of California, Riverside where he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and served an internship in the United States Senate. In 1985 he received his Juris Doctor Degree, Cum Laude, from Western State University.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Selth was employed for seven years by California Federal Savings & Loan Association, where he last worked as Assistant Vice President and Branch Manager of Cal Fed's Pasadena office.
Mr. Selth served as a Deputy District Attorney in Orange County for two years before joining the firm of McKinley & Capeloto in Pasadena in 1988, where he was a partner from 1994 until 2001. In 2002 Mr. Selth joined Weintraub Law Corporation as Senior Counsel. The firm became known as Weintraub & Selth, APC in 2004.
Mr. Selth is recognized as one of the leading consumer and small business bankruptcy attorneys in Southern California. His hands-on approach to each of his cases and dedication to the highest level of client satisfaction has helped hundreds of clients emerge from bankruptcy with the goal of a discharge and "fresh start" accomplished. Many of Weintraub & Selth's clients have successfully completed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy and received their discharge even after other attorneys told them they did not qualify for Chapter 7.
In addition to representing debtors and creditors in a variety of matters, Mr. Selth has years of experience representing financial institutions and mortgage lenders in state courts and bankruptcy courts throughout California, specializing in areas of concern to credit unions. As a member of Provisors, an alliance of senior level professionals from the fields of law, accounting, banking, finance, insurance and consulting, he is able to refer his clients to trustworthy, accountable, seasoned professionals in virtually any field.
A member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Central District Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys Association, Mr. Selth brings to Weintraub & Selth, APC a hands-on background in the banking industry and extensive trial and bankruptcy court experience. He handles and supervises state court and bankruptcy litigation as well as foreclosure and receivership matters.
Marc A Collins
Mr. Collins obtained his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1984, graduating cum laude from Olivet Nazarene University, Kankakee, Illinois, with a double major in Honors English, Business Marketing, and with a minor in French. He graduated from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1987, where he served as a Teaching Assistant in Legal Research and Writing during years 2 and 3.
Mr. Collins is a consumer bankruptcy attorney with over 22 years experience in chapters 7 and 13, and has represented Chapter11 debtors for over 7 years. He began his career with the boutique bankruptcy and securities law firm of Petillon & Davidoff while in law school, during which he worked in both of the firm's specialties. He stayed with that firm through its merger with Gipson Hoffman & Pancione in 1992. In 1993, he started his own practice representing Chapter 7 debtors. Mr. Collins joined Pearson Law Corporation in 1997 at which time he added estate planning to the services he provided to clients.
In 2003, Mr. Collins joined the law firm of Haight Brown & Bonesteel, where he served as the Business Solutions Department Chairperson representing the firm's bankruptcy and transactional clients. In 2005, Mr. Collins went back into solo practice until joining the law firm of Weintraub & Selth, APC in 2010.
Mr. Collins is licensed to practice in the State of California and before all of its courts, and has been admitted to the United States District Court for the Central District of California. In 2000, Mr. Collins was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.
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