Sunday, March 28, 2010

New Bankruptcy Judge Sworn-In

By Ciaran McEvoy
Daily Journal Staff Writer, March, 2010
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DLA Piper associate Deborah J. Saltzman was sworn in last Thursday as the Central District of California's newest bankruptcy judge.

Saltzman, a 39-year-old University of Virginia School of Law graduate, also practiced law at Hennigan Bennett & Dorman, O'Melveny & Myers and Klee, Tuchin, Bodganoff & Sternl. She fills a vacancy created by the retirement of U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Naugle in September 2008. Her term is set for 14 years in one of the nation's busiest federal courts, where bankruptcy filings in 2009 totaled more than 109,000 cases, an increase of more than 56 percent from the previous year.

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