Alane A. Becket

Alane A. Becket is an AV-rated attorney and managing partner of Becket & Lee LLP, a Malvern, Pa., law firm providing comprehensive nationwide representation of financial institutions in bankruptcy matters, with a focus on consumer lenders and debt-purchasers. In addition to client and industry relations, she focuses on litigation strategy, and Becket & Lee has been lead or co counsel in some of the most influential decisions in consumer bankruptcy over the last 20 years. In addition to her duties at the firm, Ms. Becket is Chairman of ABI, co-chair of the Bankruptcy Section and of the Professional Standards and Grievance Committees of the National Creditors Bar Association(NCBA), and a member of the National Association of Chapter Thirteen Trustees (NACTT) and the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees. She also co-chaired ABI’s Consumer BankruptcyCommittee. Ms. Becket has written and lectured extensively on consumer bankruptcy issues fora variety of professional organizations, including ABI, the Federal Judicial Conference, NACTT,NABT, Norton Bankruptcy Law Advisor, NCBA, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, and a host of local and regional organizations. She also served as a commissioner on ABI’s Com-mission on Consumer Bankruptcy, and she has authored articles for many of the same organizations, as well as the Norton Institute on Bankruptcy Law. She served as editor of the fourth edition of ABI’s Consumer Bankruptcy: Fundamentals of Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. She also served as editor for the 2011, 2012 and 2013 editions of The Best of ABI: TheYear in Consumer Bankruptcy. In 2016, Collection Advisor magazine named her as one of the “25Most Influential Women in Collections” in its September/October cover story. In 2018, CollectionAdvisor once again recognized her among her peers, this time in its September/October cover story on the “20 Most Powerful Women in Collections.” Ms. Becket received her undergraduate degree from Pennsylvania State University and her J.D. from Widener University School of Law.