Background
Smith, Gerald K. was born in 1936 in Manhattan, Kansas, United States.
Smith, Gerald K. was born in 1936 in Manhattan, Kansas, United States.
Kansas State University (Bachelor of Science, 1958). New York University (Bachelor of Laws, 1961).
Worked at Lewis and Roca, LLP (Phoenix, Arizona) specializing in General Practice including Trial and Appellate Practice. Alternative Dispute Resolution, Banking and Commercial Finance, Bankruptcy, Commercial, Construction, Corporate and Securities, Criminal, Environmental, Estate Planning, Government Relations, Health Care, Immigration, Intellectual Property and Technology and The Internet, International, Labor and Employment, Land Use, Product Liability, Professional Liability, Real Estate, Sports and Entertainment, Taxation, Tort Litigation and Workers' Compensation. Admitted to the bar, 1962, Arizona.
Order of the Coif; Phi Alpha Theta. Phi Kappa Phi. Root-Tilden Scholar. Member, Board of Editors, New York University Law Review, 1960-1961.
Deputy Director, Staff of the Commission on the Bankruptcy Laws of the United States, 1972-1973. Chair, Committee on Creditors and Debtors Rights, State Bar of Arizona, 1969-1972. Lawyer Delegate to the Ninth Circuit, 1988-1991.
Member, Ethics Working Group, 1996 and Partnerships Working Group, 1997, National Bankruptcy Review Commission. Member, International Bar Association, Section on Business Law, Insolvency and Creditors' Rights Committee, Subcommittee J. Member, American Law Institute, 1989. Adviser, Transnational Insolvency Project, American Law Institute, 1993.
Member, International Bankruptcy Subcommittee, Business Bankruptcy Committee, Business Law Section, American Bar Association. Conferee, National Bankruptcy Conference, 1969. Participant, Special Study Conference, Federal Rules Governing Attorney Conduct, Committee on Rules of Practice, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1996.
Member, Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States, 1993. Member, Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code-Article 9 Study Group, 1989-1993. Observer, National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws-UCC Article 9 Drafting Committee, 1993.
Member and Former Chair, Professional Ethics in Bankruptcy Cases Subcommittee, Business Bankruptcy Committee, Business Law Section, American Bar Association, 1989. Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Partnerships in Bankruptcy, Business Law Section, American Bar Association, 1991. Fellow, 1989, Chairman of the Board of Directors, 1995-1997 and Chairman of the Board of Regents, 1989-1995, American College of Bankruptcy.
Member, American Bankruptcy Institute, 1989-1997. Member, National Host Committee, INSOL, 1997. Member, Turnaround Management Association, Arizona Chapter, 1995.
General Counsel, Arizona Golf Association, 1985. Contributing Editor: Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice, Callaghan and Company, 1981. Collier on Bankruptcy, Volume 12, 14th ed., 1975.
Co-Editor: Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser, 1985. Co-Author: Kennedy and Smith, "Some Issues in Partnership Bankruptcy Cases and Recommendations for Legislative Change," Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, Callaghan and Company, 1990. Smith and Kennedy, "Fraudulent Transfers and Obligations: Issues of Current Interest," 43 So.
Carolina L. Rev., 709, 1992. Kennedy and Smith, "Post-Confirmation Issues: The Effect of Confirmation and Post-Confirmation Proceedings," 44 So. Carolina L. Rev., 621, 1993.
Kennedy and Smith, "Some Suggestions for the Bankruptcy Review Commission," Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1995. Haines and Smith, "The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994Significance for Business Chapter 11 Cases," Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser, December 1994. Author: "An Introduction to Partnership Issues in Bankruptcy Cases," Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice, Clark Boardman and Callaghan, 1994.
"Insolvency Law for the 21st Century," State Bar of Arizona Bankruptcy Journal, March 1996. Lewis and Roca was founded in Phoenix, Arizona in 1950 by Orme Lewis and Paul Roca. The firm, now one of the Southwest's largest, maintains offices in Phoenix and Tucson and provides a wide range of legal services to a diverse business and financial client base with local, state, national and international interests.
The firm also provides extensive legal services to tax-exempt organizations and to public sector entities.
Member, Board of Editors, New York University Law Review, 1960-1961. Deputy Director, Staff of the Commission on the Bankruptcy Laws of the United States, 1972-1973. Chair, Committee on Creditors and Debtors Rights, State Bar of Arizona, 1969-1972.
Lawyer Delegate to the Ninth Circuit, 1988-1991. Member, Ethics Working Group, 1996 and Partnerships Working Group, 1997, National Bankruptcy Review Commission. Member, International Bar Association, Section on Business Law, Insolvency and Creditors' Rights Committee, Subcommittee J. Member, American Law Institute, 1989.
Adviser, Transnational Insolvency Project, American Law Institute, 1993. Member, International Bankruptcy Subcommittee, Business Bankruptcy Committee, Business Law Section, American Bar Association. Conferee, National Bankruptcy Conference, 1969.
Participant, Special Study Conference, Federal Rules Governing Attorney Conduct, Committee on Rules of Practice, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1996. Member, Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States, 1993. Member, Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code-Article 9 Study Group, 1989-1993.
Observer, National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws-UCC Article 9 Drafting Committee, 1993. Member and Former Chair, Professional Ethics in Bankruptcy Cases Subcommittee, Business Bankruptcy Committee, Business Law Section, American Bar Association, 1989. Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Partnerships in Bankruptcy, Business Law Section, American Bar Association, 1991.
Fellow, 1989, Chairman of the Board of Directors, 1995-1997 and Chairman of the Board of Regents, 1989-1995, American College of Bankruptcy. Member, American Bankruptcy Institute, 1989-1997. Member, National Host Committee, INSOL, 1997.
Member, Turnaround Management Association, Arizona Chapter, 1995. General Counsel, Arizona Golf Association, 1985. Fellow, 1989, Chairman of the Board of Directors, 1995-1997 and Chairman of the Board of Regents, 1989-1995, American College of Bankruptcy.
Member, American Bankruptcy Institute, 1989-1997. Member, National Host Committee, INSOL, 1997. Member, Turnaround Management Association, Arizona Chapter, 1995.
General Counsel, Arizona Golf Association, 1985.