Since 1982, Norton Institutes has been privileged to conduct bankruptcy law seminars with the nation's leading judges, professors, and practitioners. The following are the most distinguished faculty members who have shaped the field over four decades.
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1982
Founded
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Judge William Lazarow
Prof. Vern Countryman
Jackson Hole, WY
Judge Leif Clark
Western District of Texas
Judge Bill Thurman
Nashville, TN / Salt Lake City, UT
David Lander
St. Louis, MO
Bill Norton III & Eugene Geekie, Jr.
Nashville, TN / Chicago, IL
Sallie Norton & Martha Norton Hodge
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Gerald Smith & Prof. Frank Kennedy
Phoenix, AZ / University of Michigan
Jonathan Landers
New York, NY
Judge Kevin Anderson
Salt Lake City, UT
Prof. Bruce
Wilmington, DE
Jonathan Friedland & Robert Feinstein
Chicago, IL / New York, NY
Judge William L. Norton Jr.
Atlanta, GA
Ralph, Susan, Larry
TX / UT / AZ / NY
Judge Barry Russell
Los Angeles, CA
Judge Bill Brown
Memphis, TN
Robert Kaelin
Hartford, CT
George Triester
Los Angeles, CA
Judge Keith Lundin
Nashville, TN
Judge Glenn Clark
Salt Lake City, UT
Judge Randy Haines
Phoenix, AZ
David Neff & Jeff Hellman
Chicago, IL / New Haven, CT
Additional Honourees
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Neal Batson
Atlanta, GA
Richard Lieb
New York, NY
Prof. Richard Levin
Los Angeles, CA
Charles Vihon
New York, NY
Judge Robert Ginsberg
Chicago, IL
Judge Robert Martin
Madison, WI
Judge Chandler Watson
Northern District of Alabama
Judge Thomas Waldron
Southern District of Ohio
Judge James Gregg
Western District of Michigan
Sally Neely
Los Angeles, CA
William Weintraub
New York, NY
Neal Wolf
New York, NY
Prof. Kenneth Klee
Los Angeles, CA
Judge Alexander Paskay
Tampa, FL
Judge Roger Whelan
District of Columbia
Judge Gregg Zive
Reno, NV
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