Total Credits: 3 CLE
Have you ever gotten a judgment and thought what next? Or been stonewalled in your attempts to collect on a judgment you know to be collectible. Our distinguished panel will walk through the state law (and some federal) remedies that can assist you in collecting on that judgment. We will discuss the common tools used to collect judgments as well as how to avoid pitfalls and other traps.
Chair:
Anthony Austin, Fennemore Craig PC
Faculty:
Krystal M. Ahart, Attorney at Law, KAHN & AHART, PLLC
Justin Niedzialek, Dunn DeSantis Walt & Kendrick, LLP
J. Henk Taylor, Ryan Rapp Underwood & Pacheco, PLC
is a partner in the firm of Warner Angle Hallam Jackson & Formanek, PLC, where he practices in the areas of real estate lending and leasing, workouts, bankruptcy, and creditors’ rights. He represents debtors, creditors’ committees, trustees, asset-based lenders, contractors, landlords, trade/service suppliers, other secured and unsecured creditors, and asset purchasers in all facets of cases under Chapters 7 and 11. Henk also represents secured and unsecured creditors in state and federal court enforcement proceedings including replevins and receiverships. Prior to joining Warner Angle, Henk was a partner in the Phoenix office of Lewis and Roca, LLP. He received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, magna cum laude, and his law degree from the University of Florida, with high honors. Following law school, Henk served as a law clerk to the Hon. Lacey Collier of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, and the Hon. Susan Black of United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He has been listed in Southwest SuperLawyers in the areas of Bankruptcy/Reorganization and Bankruptcy/Litigation since 2016. Henk is a member of the Construction and Bankruptcy Sections of the Arizona Bar, as well as being a master in the Arizona Bankruptcy American Inn of Court.
is co-chair of Fennemore's financial restructuring, bankruptcy and creditors' rights practice group, where he works on matters including collection and judgement work, breach of contract, partnership disputes and receiverships. He represents financial institutions, debtors, creditors, and trustees in all phases of complex litigation and restructuring transactions, including trials and appeals. As an AV Preeminent rated bankruptcy attorney, Anthony has a wide range of commercial litigation experience involving foreclosures, receiverships and guarantor litigation. His experience as a bankruptcy attorney has him representing clients at trial and various types of hearings before the Bankruptcy Court, District Court, and Arizona Supreme Court. He is also adept at litigation matters involving the rapidly-evolving cannabis industry and partnered on a precedent-setting bankruptcy case involving marijuana investors and distributors. Growing up near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, where his dad was a park ranger who helped open Kartchner Caverns to the public, Anthony has always had a great love for Arizona - and helping people - and knew from an early age he wanted to be a lawyer. These passions shape his view of his civil practice to this day where selling and merging companies really means saving jobs, keeping companies open, and maintaining the legacy of small business owners and their jobs that support hundreds of family members. Outside his work as a debt attorney, Anthony loves spending time in the great outdoors with his wife and three kids, exploring and camping in areas like Prescott, Cottonwood, Show Low, the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and the Carlsbad Caverns. Although he is a lifelong Cubs fan and grew up listening to Harry Caray on WGN Radio, his love for baseball carried into the Southwest, and he now often enjoys a cold beer with a hot dog at Arizona Diamondbacks games.
is an attorney with the Phoenix office of Dunn DeSantis Walt & Kendrick, LLP. His areas of practice include labor and employment law, creditors’ rights, judgment enforcement, commercial litigation, and bankruptcy law. He serves a diverse client base including individuals, small and large businesses, and financial institutions. Prior to joining DDWK, Justin spent time in solo practice, and before starting his own practice, he was a member at The Cavanagh Law Firm. He has conducted numerous trainings and CLEs in various areas of law including judgment enforcement, the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, and labor and employment best practices. Justin is an Arizona native, received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in psychology from the University of San Diego, and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law.
Krystal M. Ahart is a partner at Kahn & Ahart, PLLC, dba Bankruptcy Legal Center™, in Arizona. She focuses her practice on representing individual and commercial clients through Chapter 7, 11 (including Sub V), and 13 bankruptcies. Krystal obtained her J.D. from Phoenix School of Law in 2012; she started working with James F. Kahn in 2002, moving her way up from file clerk/receptionist, to secretary, to paralegal, and eventually to lawyer. Krystal recently became certified as a Bankruptcy Specialist by the State Bar of Arizona. She is honored to be a member of the 2020 Class of American Bankruptcy Institute’s 40 Under 40 Program and to be on Super Lawyers’ 2021 Southwest Rising Stars® list, an honor reserved for only 2.5 percent of attorneys in the region. Krystal is an active member of the legal community and devotes a substantial amount of time to serving the underserved. She has served as Co-Executive Director of Arizona Consumer Bankruptcy Counsel (“ACBC”) for nearly four years, and recently resigned as Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Volunteer Lawyers Program, after four years of service in that role. In her free time, Krystal enjoys snowboarding, hiking, kayaking, and camping.
