Roschke, Andrea H.

With considerable expertise in the area of bankruptcy, in addition to substantial civil litigation work, Lisa A. Roquemore enables McQueen & Ashman to assist clients who face difficult litigation issues as well as complicated bankruptcy matters.

Prior to becoming a partner at McQueen & Ashman, Ms. Roquemore was a partner at Feldhake, August & Roquemore LLP, Meserve, Mumper & Hughes LLP and prior to that, was a partner at Neben & Starrett, Inc. Her practice involves business, commercial, real estate, securities fraud, fradulent conveyance, writ of attachment/receivers, intellectual property, employer/employee, and National Vaccine Act litigation matters in both State and Federal court.

Ms. Roquemore is also a member of the United States Federal Court of Claims where she represents Petitioners with serious vaccine-related injuries pursuant to the National Vaccine Injury Act under Title 42 of the United States Code. [See, Chatie Cruz v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1998 WL 928418 (Fed. Cl. December 21, 1998) (No. 96-8202).]

Ms. Roquemore was one of the lead attorneys for the single largest bond purchaser in a complex Municipal Bond Securities Fraud case entitled In re Heritage Bond Litigation, 02-ML-1475-DT and CV01-5752 DT (RCx). Issues ranged from securities fraud, fraud, fradulent conveyances, negligence, conspiracy, breach of fiduciary duties, among others against the Indenture Trustee, promoter, underwriter, underwriter's counsel, appraisers, market feasibility consultants and various officers and directors. She obtained a 24 million dollar writ of attachment and injunctive relief as remedy for fraudulent conveyance on the promoter's residence. She was successful in recovery in excess of $11,000,000 in settlement funds overall.

In addition, Ms. Roquemore has extensive experience in all aspects of bankruptcy, insolvency, business reorganization, debtor/creditor matters, trustee matters, and related litigation as they pertain to Chapter 11 Reorganizations, Chapter 7 liquidations, and State Court commercial business and financial litigation. Ms. Roquemore also has experience in formulating non-bankruptcy alternatives, such as Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors, work-out options and financial planning. She has represented Chapter 11 Debtor-in-Possessions in complex Chapter 11 proceedings, Chapter 7 Debtors, Chapter 7 Trustees and Creditors. Her practice also extends to exemption planning and tax issues as they relate to bankruptcy.

A native of California, Ms. Roquemore received her Juris Doctorate Degree from California Western School of Law (1988) and a Bachelor of Arts Degree, with distinction in Psychology with a Sociology Minor from San Diego State University (1985). During her third year of law school, she served as an intern with the Honorable Louise DeCarl Adler, United States Bankruptcy Judge, Southern District of California.