Kathleen R. Cruickshank

Kathleen R. Cruickshank is a shareholder with Murphy & King in Boston, where she focuses her practice on representing debtors, trustees and creditors in complex chapter 11 and 7 cases and representing debtors in nonbankruptcy workouts. She appears regularly in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, represents plaintiffs and defendants in litigation arising in bankruptcy proceedings, and has represented bankruptcy trustees before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the Alcoholic Beverages and Control Commission. Ms. Cruickshank was formerly an attorney with the Office of the U.S. Trustee and the U.S. Department of Justice for the Districts of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, and she was the Assistant U.S. Trustee in the San Jose Office of the U.S. Trustee for the Northern District of California. Prior to her 10 years of service with the U.S. Department of Justice, she represented debtors and creditors in bankruptcy matters, and clerked for the U.S. Trustee for the Districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Ms. Cruickshank received her B.S. in 1984 from Brown University and her J.D. in 1987 from Boston University School of Law.