Mary Langsner, Ph.D.

Dr. Mary Langsner is an attorney in Garman Turner Gordon’s Business Restructuring & Bankruptcy Department in Las Vegas. Her primary practice involves corporate restructuring and bankruptcy litigation, including nondischargeability proceedings, claims litigation and fraudulent-transfer litigation. Dr. Langsner has represented clients from a variety of constituencies, including commercial lenders, business investors, real estate developers, commercial and residential landlords, regional and national banks, a motion picture studio, a national credit union, victims of Ponzi schemes, a construction subcontractor and a commercial equipment lessor. She also has represented chapter 11 and 7 trustees and creditors in all aspects of chapter 7, chapter 13 and chapter 11 cases, including single-asset real estate and subchapter V small business cases. In addition, she represents an executive agency of the State of Nevada and has represented local municipalities as creditors in connection with bankruptcy proceedings. Dr. Langsner has successfully represented creditors in their debt collections, including claims litigation and nondischargeability proceedings under 11 U.S.C. §523, and she has obtained over $2.3 million in judgments for fraud against the operators of a Ponzi scheme on behalf of a group of client investors. She also successfully challenged a final report, resulting in more than $80,000 recovered for her client where the trustee had initially identified the client as receiving zero. Prior to joining GTG, she led the creditors’ rights bankruptcy practice at a mid-sized Nevada firm and clerked at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada. Dr. Langsner co-chairs the Pro Bono Committee of ABI’s Veterans and Servicemembers Affairs Task Force. She received her B.S. from the University of California, Davis, her J.D. from the University of Nevada Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz.