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Jeffrey C. Wurms

Attorney
Phone: 510.834.6600
Fax: 510.808.4695
E-mail: JWurms@wendel.com v-card

Practice Areas

Experience

Jeff has been a partner at Wendel Rosen since 1995.  His practice focuses on bankruptcy and insolvency matters along with debtor-creditor relationships.  In addition to bankruptcy planning and administration experience, Jeff has extensive bankruptcy-related commercial litigation experience at both the trial and appellate levels.  His sub-specialty is fiduciary duty litigation within an insolvency context.  Most recently, Jeff recovered several million dollars for his client based on claims against corporate directors and attorneys for the breach of their fiduciary duties owed to the corporation and its creditors.

Reported Cases

  • In re Harvey, 222 B.R. 888 (B.A.P. 9th Cir. 1998)
  • In re JTS Corp., 305 B.R. 529 (Bankr. N.D. Cal. 2003)
  • In re Bair Island Marina & Office Center, 116 B.R. 180 (Bankr. N.D. Cal. 1990)

Education

  • Rutgers University of Law, Camden, New Jersey; J.D. (1984)
  • Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; B.A., cum laude, International Relations (1981)

Close Admissions

  • State Bar of California
  • United States Supreme Court
  • United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • State Bar of Pennsylvania

Close Publications

  • "Limitation on Use of the California Homestead Exemption in Bankruptcy Cases," author, 21 California Bankruptcy Journal 323,1993
  • California Mechanics' Liens and Related Construction Remedies, 3d ed., contributor, 1998, Continuing Education of the Bar

Close Affiliations

  • Alameda County Bar Association

Close Speaking & Teaching

  • Bankruptcy Issues for Operating Companies,” panelist, Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP, September 17, 2009
  • Golden Gate University Law School, adjunct professor of Bankruptcy Law
  • "New Developments in the Homestead Law," Alameda County Bar Association
  • "Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law," Contra Costa County Bar Association

Close Awards & Recognition

  • Named among the "Best Lawyers" in the Bay Area by Bay Area Lawyer Magazine, 2005
  • Recognized as Northern California "Super Lawyer" in bankruptcy by Law & Politics (as seen in San Francisco Magazine), 2004-2007