Jeffrey I. Golden

Jeffrey I. Golden is a receiver, bankruptcy trustee and assignee, and a founding partner of Weiland Golden Goodrich LLP in Costa Mesa, Calif. A former shareholder of Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, heal so serves as a expert witness in federal and state criminal and civil matters. Mr. Golden concentrates his practice in the areas of business reorganization and complex receivership and bankruptcy litigation in the state and federal courts. He is available to mediate bankruptcy controversies and other commercial disputes. Mr. Golden is an adjunct professor of bankruptcy law at the University of California, IrvineSchool of Law and co-editor-in-chief of the California Bankruptcy Journal. He also has served as aNinth Circuit Judicial Conference Lawyer Representative and is a past president of the Orange CountyBankruptcy Forum. Since February 2005, Mr. Golden has been listed in Los Angeles Magazine as a Su-per Lawyer, representing the top 5% of the practicing attorneys in Southern California. He has received the OCBF’s Judge Peter M. Elliott Award for outstanding ethics, scholarship and contribution, and theCDCBAA’s Judge Calvin Ashland “Trustee of the Year” Award. In addition, he was appointed to serve on the California State Bar Client Security Fund Commission, allocating millions of dollars to victims of attorney abuse, and served as its chair. Mr. Golden is a graduate of the Straus Institute for Alternative Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law, and he serves on the panel of trained mediators in bankruptcy matters for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California. He also regularly lectures and writes articles regarding insolvency and commercial law matters. Mr. Golden received his undergraduate degree cum laude from the University of California at San Diego – Revelle College in 1984 and his J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1987, after which he clerked for Hon. Peter M. Elliott and Hon. Calvin K. Ashland of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, respectively.