Ms. Leah M. Eisenberg

Leah M. Eisenberg is a partner with Pashman Stein Walder Hayden P.C. in Hackensack, N.J., where her practice encompasses corporate reorganization, bankruptcy and default matters, corporate trust default matters, intercreditor matters, bankruptcy litigation, cannabis-related financing matters and cross border representations. She represents debtors, creditors, indenture trustees, committees of unsecured creditors, debtors, secured creditors, lenders, bidders and acquirors. Ms. Eisenberg has dedicated many pro bono hours to advising clients referred by Her Justice. She recently represented a synagogue in a proceeding in the Beth Din (Jewish Court) on employment, real estate and nonprofit matters. She also represented clients in obtaining for them Holocaust reparations from France, and she represented a nonprofit Holocaust education organization on corporate, employment and cross-border matters. She also volunteers at her synagogue and assists students and adults with reading Hebrew. Prior to joining Pashman Stein, Ms. Eisenberg worked at Mayer Brown LLP and Foley & Lardner LLP. Earlier in her career, she served as a first law clerk to Hon. Robert E. Gerber, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York. She was included in The Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law from 2019-22, and in 2018 she received the NYIC Women’s Division Executive of the Year Award. Ms. Eisenberg is a board member of the Association of Insolvency Restructuring Advisors (AIRA), a co-founder and former president of the Women’s Division for the New York Institute of Credit (NYIC), and an advisory board member of ABI’s and AIRA’s VALCON Conference. She is also a board member of The Bankruptcy Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accessibility Consortium. Ms. Eisenberg received her B.A. summa cum laude in 1997 from Binghamton University and her J.D. in 2000 from Brooklyn Law School.