M. Jonathan Hayes

M. Jonathan Hayes is a partner with Simon Resnik Hayes LLP in Sherman Oaks, Calif., where he concentrates his practice in bankruptcy and corporate litigation and oversees the firm's Chapter 11 Bank- ruptcy Department. He is a Certified Bankruptcy Specialist by the California Bar Association's Board of Legal Specialization. Mr. Hayes is a lawyer representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, is the past president and a member of the board of directors of the Central District Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys Association, sits on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum, is a member of the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization's Bankruptcy Law Advisory Commission, and has been on the board of editors of the California Bankruptcy Journal since 2001. In addition, he has been a member of the panel of mediators of the Bankruptcy Mediation Program for the Central District of California since the program's inception in 1995. Mr. Hayes has been an adjunct professor of law at the University of West Los Angeles for the past 26 years, where he has taught bankruptcy, business or- ganizations and other subjects. He is the author of A Summary of Bankruptcy Law, Second Edition, pub- lished in July 2012; Bankruptcy Jurisprudence from the Supreme Court, published in 2009; and Melvyn ÔDeacon' Jones: My 40 Years with the Blues Legends, privately published in 2004. Mr. Hayes received his B.A. in 1971 from Loyola University and his J.D. in 1977 from Loyola University School of Law.