Fitzsimmons, Lara E.

Tavi C. Flanagan focuses her practice in the areas of bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, and business litigation. Ms. Flanagan represents debtors, trustees, and creditors’ committees in connection with bankruptcy cases, adversary proceedings, and related commercial litigation.

Ms. Flanagan has played principal roles in connection with numerous large Chapter 11 reorganization cases, and she has worked with clients to negotiate and implement plans of reorganization, to restructure their financial affairs, to maximize the value obtained through bankruptcy sales of business assets, and to emerge from the bankruptcy process as viable enterprises.

Ms. Flanagan received her undergraduate degree in 1989 from the University of California, Irvine, where she graduated with honors. In 1993, Ms. Flanagan earned her J.D. from the University of Southern California, where she was senior editor of the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal and Major Tax Planning Journal and the recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award in Real Property. From 1993 to 1994, Ms. Flanagan served as the law clerk to the Honorable John E. Ryan, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California.

Ms. Flanagan is admitted to practice before all of the courts of the state of California. She is also admitted to practice before all four of the United States District Courts in the state of California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

Contributor: "The 'New Value' Defense in Preference Actions," Orange County Bar Association, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section; "Bankruptcy Litigation: A Workshop in Trial Strategy," Orange County Bankruptcy Forum Special Projects Committee; and "Advanced Evidence in Bankruptcy," Orange County Bankruptcy Forum Special Projects Committee. Member: State Bar of California, American Bar Association, Orange County Bar Association, and Orange County Bankruptcy Forum.