PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
November 13, 2002
ILENE J. LASHINSKY APPOINTED U.S. TRUSTEE
FOR ARIZONA
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Ilene J. Lashinsky has been appointed
United States Trustee for Arizona (Region 14), it was announced
today by Lawrence Friedman, Director of the Executive Office
for United States Trustees. Lashinsky's appointment takes
effect November 18, 2002.
"It gives me great pleasure to welcome Ilene Lashinsky
to the U.S. Trustee Program," Friedman stated. "She
is an outstanding commercial and bankruptcy lawyer who is
well respected not only among the lawyers in her state, but
also among experts in the field of international insolvency."
"Serving as United States Trustee is a great honor,"
Lashinsky stated. "Under Director Friedman's leadership,
I look forward to working with the experienced staff in the
Phoenix office to carry out the Attorney General's mandate
of combating fraud and abuse in the bankruptcy system."
Immediately before her appointment, Lashinsky was of counsel
to the Scottsdale, Ariz., firm of Hymson & Goldstein P.C.,
where her practice focused on the representation of creditors
and debtors in complex commercial bankruptcy matters and commercial
litigation. For the previous 17 years, she was a partner at
Davis & Lowe P.C. in Phoenix. During a 13-month leave
from Davis & Lowe in 1998 and 1999, she served as resident
bankruptcy advisor to the CFED-USAID Macedonia Commercial
Law Project, assisting in workouts of major financially distressed
Macedonian businesses and advising ministry representatives
regarding the government's role in the transition to a free
market economy.
Before joining Davis & Lowe P.C., Lashinsky practiced
commercial and bankruptcy law with Leslie L. Miller P.C. and
with Streich, Lang, Weeks, Cardon & French. She also served
as Director of Continuing Legal Education for the State Bar
of Arizona, where she helped design and develop legal education
curricula and materials.
Among other professional and community activities, Lashinsky
is a member and past chair of the State Bar of Arizona's Bankruptcy
Section and a member of the State Bar of Arizona's Board of
Legal Specialization. She has been an adjunct faculty member
for Arizona State University's Russian and East European Studies
Consortium, and is a regular participant in international
legal conferences and symposia relating to legal development
in Eastern European countries.
Lashinsky received her law degree cum laude in 1972 from
Arizona State University College of Law in Tempe, Ariz., and
her undergraduate degree in 1969 from Arizona State University.
The United States Trustee Program is a component of the
Justice Department that protects the integrity of the bankruptcy
system by overseeing case administration and litigating to
enforce the bankruptcy laws.
The Program has 21 regions and 95 field offices. Region
14 is headquartered in Phoenix.
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