Gerrit M. Pronske

Gerrit Pronske is a partner with Spencer Fane LLP in Plano, Texas, and practices in all areas of bankruptcy, business law, commercial litigation and real estate. He has also served as a trained mediator specializing in cases involving bankruptcy, insolvency and commercial disputes. Mr. Pronske’s practice focuses on chapter 11 proceedings and bankruptcy mediations. He also has a unique understanding of individual cases involving homestead law, which refers to exempting homesteads from being sold to settle an outstanding debt or seized for such purposes. As the author of Pronske’s Texas Bankruptcy,Annotated, Mr. Pronske shares insights and guidance in the 1,100-page textbook used by bankruptcy practitioners throughout Texas, currently in its 21st edition and published by Texas Lawyer. He formerly served as editor of Texas Bankruptcy Decisions, a bimonthly case report summarizing all bankruptcy decisions of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and all bankruptcy and federal district courts within the state of Texas. Mr. Pronske previously clerked for Hon. Robert C. McGuire, former Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Texas’s Dallas Division He received his B.A. magna cum laude in 1980 from Texas Tech University and his J.D. in 1983 from Texas Tech University School of Law.