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1.
Description of Specialty
Robert L. Morrison has twenty-plus years experience as a commercial
lawyer, with special emphasis on the Uniform Commercial Code, The
Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1898, The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978,
as amended, and the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994, as amended, in
connection with creditors' rights and the enforcement of same, including
trials in State, Federal and Bankruptcy Court. Substantially all
of the creditors' rights work has been for both local and foreign
banks involving, among other things, obtaining pre-judgment writs
of attachment, claim and delivery of personal property, non-judicial
foreclosure and judicial foreclosure of real and personal property
collateral, loan workouts in and out of bankruptcy proceedings,
obtaining relief from the automatic stay on behalf of secured creditors
in bankruptcy proceedings, negotiating debtor-in-possession financing,
litigating all aspects of plans of reorganization, negotiating consensual
plans, preparation and confirmation of creditor plans, objecting
to the discharge and/or dischargeability of debts in bankruptcy
proceedings and litigating every conceivable defense raised by guarantors.
2. Recent Representations
(i) the secured lender in connection with its loans to Bruce McNall
and the Los Angeles Kings, totaling in excess of $120,000,000.00,
including negotiations for the sale of the Los Angeles Kings on
two separate occasions, one outside of bankruptcy, and one in a
bankruptcy proceeding, extensive negotiations with the National
Hockey League and the defense against fraudulent conveyance and
other bankruptcy related claims; and (ii) representation of the
Agent Bank of a ten member Bank Group, with secured loans in excess
of $126,000,000.00 in the House of Fabrics Chapter 11 bankruptcy
proceedings, including negotiations for a $20,000,000.00 debtor-in-possession
financing facility and successful negotiations for a consensual
Plan of Reorganization. (iii) lead counsel for Plaintiff in Security
Pacific National Bank v. Wozab, the leading case in California on
the interplay between a bank's right to offset versus California's
"one form of action" rule when real property collateral exists.
3.
Lectures
Mr. Morrison has given lectures before the Real Property Section
of the Los Angeles County Bar, the Commercial Law and Bankruptcy
Section of the Los Angeles County Bar, The 1982 Crocker Symposium
for the Real Property Section of the Los Angeles County Bar and
the California Bankers Association on subjects related to the Uniform
Commercial Code, the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 and the Foreclosure
on Mixed Collateral (real and personal property) in California.
Mr. Morrison was also on the Faculty for PLI on Lender Liability
Litigation (1989) and The Problem of Indenture Trustees and Bondholders
(1988-91), and was a speaker for the California Banker's Association
Bank Counsel Seminar in 1991 and 1993 on bankruptcy and work-out
related matters, with special emphasis on the single asset (real
property) bankruptcy.
4.
Education
J.D., University of Michigan School of Law (Associate Editor, Michigan
Law Review, Order of the Coif), 1972;
B.S.,
DePauw University (Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Epsilon [Economic
Honorary], Wall Street Journal Award for Outstanding Economic Student),
1969.
5.
Affiliations
Member: State Bar of California; Los Angeles County Bar (Commercial
Law and Bankruptcy section); Financial Lawyers Conference
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