Allison R. Day

Allison R. Day is a partner with Venable LLP in Miami and helps clients handle challenges in all areas of bankruptcy, business reorganization and creditors’ rights. She has handled numerous chapter 11 reorganizations and liquidations on behalf of debtors, creditors, creditor committees and trustees. Ms. Day has represented debtors, trustees and creditors in bankruptcies under chapters 7 and 13, including the former standing chapter 13 trustee for the Southern District of Florida. In addition, she regularly represents assignors, assignees and creditors in assignment for the benefit of creditors proceedings, as well as receivers in both state and district court receivership proceedings. Ms. Day is a past chair of the Florida Network of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) and is a past president of the Bankruptcy Bar Association of the Southern District of Florida. She also is a founding member of the Florida Fiduciary Forum and a current member of the ABI, the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees and the American Bar Association. A frequent speaker, Ms. Day serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law and formerly taught at Barry University. She has been a presenter for ABI, Pincus Professional Education, the National Business Institute and Lorman Education Services. She also has presented for The Florida Bar and the Bankruptcy Bar Association for the Southern District of Florida, as well as the nonprofit Dade Legal Aid - Put Something Back. Ms. Day is a member of The Florida Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Middle and Southern District of Florida. She received her B.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her J.D. from the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law.