Susan Poll Klaessy

Susan Poll Klaessy is a partner and trial lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP in Chicago, where she concentrates her practice in bankruptcy and insolvency matters, fiduciary liability, debtors’ and creditors’ rights, corporate dissolution, fraud, corporate governance disputes and complex business litigation. She has represented debtors, creditors and other stakeholders in restructurings, liquidations and other dis-tressed situations. Ms. Klaessy also is an adjunct law professor at Loyola University Chicago School ofLaw. She is admitted to practice in Illinois, the District of Columbia and Virginia. Ms. Klaessy is ratedAV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell and is listed in Super Lawyers from 2020-22 and as a Super Lawyers “Rising Star from 2014-19. She also was recognized as an “Emerging Lawyer in Illinois” in2018 and 2021 in a survey of her peers by Leading Lawyers. Ms. Klaessy received her earned a B.A.in political science and philosophy from the University of Iowa in 2000 and her J.D. cum laude fromLoyola University Chicago School of Law, where she was senior editor of the Public Interest Law Re-porter. She also has received several awards, including a Certificate in Trial Advocacy and Pro BonoRecognition Award.