Jeffrey S. Posta, Shareholder, is a member of the Bankruptcy & Creditor’s Rights Group. Mr. Posta concentrates his practice in the areas of bankruptcy, debtor-creditor matters, business law and commercial civil litigation in state and federal courts. His practice includes debtor, creditor and fiduciary representations in bankruptcy proceedings, pre-bankruptcy workout and insolvency counseling, and state court litigation involving business disputes, receiverships, attachments, replevins and foreclosure actions. Representative clients include banks, insurance companies, institutional lenders, equipment lessors, landlords, and a variety of individual and corporate creditors.

Mr. Posta has represented debtors, creditors and trustees in adversary proceedings and contested matters in the bankruptcy courts since 1983, including preference and fraudulent conveyance actions, automatic stay litigation and sales of assets. He is an author and lecturer on various matters related to bankruptcy practice.

Mr. Posta has extensive experience in the area of alternative dispute resolution. He is a trained mediator, included in the Roster of Mediators for the courts of New Jersey, and has mediated many types of cases. He also has represented clients in numerous mediation and arbitration proceedings. He serves on the Board of Directors and is the Chair-Elect of the Dispute Resolution Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Mr. Posta is currently the Executive Director of the Mercer County American Inn of Court, which teaches effective courtroom skills and promotes collegiality, civility and ethics among its members.

Mr. Posta is a past President of the Mercer County Bar Association, and a past Chair of both the Ethics and Fee Arbitration Committees of the New Jersey Supreme Court in Mercer County. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Posta served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Daniel A. O'Donnell and the Honorable Coleman T. Brennan, Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Mercer County, during the 1982-1983 court term.

Mr. Posta has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Trenton Country Club since 2002. He also serves as an attorney-coach for the Mock Trial Team at the Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in Princeton, New Jersey in the New Jersey State Bar Foundation High School Mock Trial competition.

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