2008-06-25 23:55:07 -

www.gtlaw.com - Greenberg Traurig attorney Paul J. Keenan Jr. has been elected as president-elect of the Bankruptcy Bar Association for the Southern District of Florida. His term as president will run from 2009 to 2010. Keenan is an associate in the business reorganization and bankruptcy practice in the firm's Miami office, where he represents banks and other lending institutions, debtors, creditors and asset purchasers in out-of-court restructurings, loan workouts and bankruptcy cases.

The Bankruptcy Bar Association for the Southern District of Florida, a voluntary bar association, includes practicing attorneys and bankruptcy court judges and serves as a source of information for bankruptcy law practitioners and the public through continuing education legal classes and pro bono work. The association conducts

an outreach program aimed at teaching middle school, high school and college students about financial literacy. The association also matches proposed pro bono clients in the South Florida area with qualified lawyers, and provides speakers at bankruptcy clinic programs at local university law schools.

"We are delighted that Paul's years of service to the Association have culminated in his election as its president-elect, and know that he will do a fine job as president," said Mark Bloom, co-chair of the firm's business reorganization and bankruptcy practice and co-managing shareholder of the Miami office. In attaining this position, Keenan joins Bloom and shareholder John Hutton as Greenberg Traurig lawyers who have served as president of the association.

Keenan is also the chair of the Latin America Committee of INSOL International, as well as on the Membership Committee, a worldwide federation of 40 member associations with more than 9,700 participating attorneys, accountants, financial institutions, and other professionals engaged in cross-border insolvencies around the world.

Greenberg Traurig's business reorganization and bankruptcy practice brings together more than 70 attorneys located across the United States. Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international, full-service law firm with more than 1,750 attorneys and governmental affairs professionals in the United States, Europe and Asia. The firm was selected as the 2007 USA Law Firm of the Year by Chambers and Partners.

Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Miami
Lourdes Brezo-Martinez, 305-579-0776
martinezl@gtlaw.com