About the Authors

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About the Authors

Rudy J. Cerone is a member of McGlinchey Stafford PLLC in New Orleans and a former chair and president of the American Board of Certification. A frequent lecturer on both business and complex consumer bankruptcy issues for more than 20 years, he also served as on ABI's Executive Committee as Secretary, co-chaired ABI's Bankruptcy Litigation Committee from 2005-06, and chaired its Hospitality, Entertainment Venues and Gaming Subcommittee from 2001-05. Mr. Cerone serves as a commissioner on the ABI Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy (2017-present) and as a co-chair of its Caribbean Insolvency Symposium (2015-present). He also is former chair, president and board member of the American Board of Certification. Mr. Cerone currently is a member of the State Bar of California, the Louisiana State Bar Association (for which he chaired its Consumer Protection and Bankruptcy Section from 1994-97), the Bankruptcy Law Advisory Commission of the Board of Legal Specialization, the Bar Association of the Federal Fifth Circuit and the American Bar Association. An author and lecturer on both business and complex consumer bankruptcy issues, he is Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification (1993) and by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization (1997), and is also a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. Mr. Cerone received his B.A. summa cum laude from the University of California at San Diego and his J.D. cum laude from Boston College Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and received a "Best Law Review Editor" award as executive editor of the Boston College International & Comparative Law Review.

Sarah Edwards is an associate in the New Orleans office of McGlinchey Stafford PLLC and works in its Commercial Litigation and Consumer Financial Services Compliance sections. She represents secured creditors in bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings, and assists lenders and servicers with bankruptcy compliance. Ms. Edwards is a member of the American Bar Association's Business Law Section and Consumer Financial Services Committee, ABI, the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation's Louisiana Chapter (for which she is a 2017 board member), the Federal, Louisiana State and New Orleans Bar Associations, and the Association for Women Attorneys. She is admitted to practice before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and...