Douglas W. Neway

Douglas W. Neway has served as the Chapter 13 Standing Trustee for the Jacksonville Division and Chapter 12 Trustee for Jacksonville and Orlando Divisions in Florida since October 2007. Previously, he was the managing partner of Bond, Botes & Neway, P.C. in Orlando from 1997-2007, where he represented debtors in consumer bankruptcy cases. Mr. Neway has served as chairman of the Orange County Bankruptcy Bar Association, the Central Florida Bankruptcy Law Association, the Jacksonville Bankruptcy Bar Association and the Orlando Division’s Bankruptcy Judicial Liaison Committee, and he was an original member of the Middle District of Florida’s Districtwide Bankruptcy Steering Committee. He was also the Florida State Chairman of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, is a member of the Florida Bar’s Bankruptcy/UCC Committee and the Statewide Bankruptcy Judicial Liaison Committee, and serves on the board of directors for the Jacksonville Bankruptcy Bar Association. Mr. Neway is a frequent lecturer on consumer bankruptcy topics at seminars, colleges and law schools. He successfully argued In re Tanner before the Eleventh Circuit, which allowed strip-off of mortgages in chapter 13 cases, and drafted an amendment to F.S 222.25, increasing Florida’s personal property exemption law that was enacted in July 2007. Mr. Neway received his B.F.A. in acting from Marymount Manhattan College and his J.D. from Nova University School of Law.