BERNARD SHAPIRO, Esq.

Born Brooklyn, New York, October 11, 1917. Admitted to bar 1946, California. Education: University of California, Berkeley (A.B. 1939); Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley (LL.B. 1942). Order of the Coif. Member, Board of Editors and Associate Editor, California Law Review, 1940-1942.

Author: "Remedies for Unsecured Creditors" in Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors (Cal. Cont. Ed. of the Bar 1957); "Tax Effects of Bankruptcy" in Major Tax Planning (USC Eleventh Tax Institute 1959).

Co-Author: "Receivership" in California Civil Procedure Before Trial (Cal. Cont. Ed. of the Bar 1977); "Purchasing Financially Distressed Companies Before Bankruptcy--Pitfalls" in Workouts and Turnarounds (Irwin 1991). Visiting Professor, Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley, 1975, 1978. Adjunct Professor, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, 1980. Chair, National Bankruptcy Conference, 1992-1997. President, Financial Lawyers Conference, 1995-1996. Member, Committee on Bankruptcy Rules, Judicial Conference of the United States (1986-1992). Chair, State Bar of California Business Law Section Uniform Commercial Code Committee, 1979-1980. Chair, Los Angeles County Bar Association Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section, 1971-1972.