Michael N. Nicastro, Esq.

Michael N. Nicastro is a partner and president of Nicastro Piscopo, APLC in Costa Mesa, Calif., and has more than 18 years of experience representing thousands of debtors as well as panel and sitting trustees in chapter 7 and 13 proceedings. He began his career as an accountant and completed a judicial externship with Hon. John E. Ryan of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California's Santa Ana Division. Mr. Nicastro is a member of the Orange County Bar Association's Commercial Law & Bankruptcy Section, ABI, the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, the Central District Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys Association and the Orange County Bankruptcy Forum. He has spoken at and contributed to MCLE-accredited panels ranging from the inception of the attorney/ client relationship to protecting clients from creditor collection attempts post-discharge. Mr. Nicastro received his B.B.A. in accounting from the University of Toledo in 1989 and his J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles in 1992.