Summer M. Shaw

Summer M. Shaw is the founder of Shaw & Hanover PC, a bankruptcy boutique law firm serving Southern California with its main office located in Palm Desert, Calif. She is a Bankruptcy Specialist certified by the State Bar of California and represents debtors, creditors and trustees in chapter 7, 11, 12 and 13 bankruptcy proceedings and enjoys litigating matters before the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts in the Central District of California. Ms. Shaw is a very active member of the bankruptcy bar and has served as a professor of bankruptcy law at the California Desert Trial Academy (CDTA). She also served as co- chair of ABI’s first Consumer Practice Extravaganza in 2021, and she served as an education co-chair for the Consumer Education Programs at the Annual California Bankruptcy Forum Conferences for 2016 and 2019. She also served as program chair for the Inland Empire Bankruptcy Forum in 2024, shaping the continuing education for the local bar, and currently serves as its president. In addition, she has been invited to speak at various education programs covering secured debt litigation, small business bankruptcies, individual chapter 11s, and bankruptcy law and crossover issues with civil litigation, family law, probate law and criminal law. Ms. Shaw is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in California as well before the Ninth and Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and before the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. She enjoys volunteering her time as often as possible through her local bar association’s “Lawyer in the Library” program, assisting veterans through the Veterans Legal Institute, and volunteering her time to help educate new attorneys in the bankruptcy community whenever possible. Ms. Shaw was a selected as a member of the inaugural class of ABI’s “40 Under 40” in 2017, and in 2018, she received the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney’s National Distinguished Service Award. She has also been named one of Palm Springs Life Magazine’s Top Bankruptcy Lawyers and was honored to be a part of the 2015 and 2016 Central District of California Bankruptcy Court’s Pro Bono Honor Roll. Ms. Shaw received her B.S. in political science with a minor in law and society from the University of California, Riverside and her J.D. from Western State College of Law.