Randy Michelson focuses her practice on complex business bankruptcy
and receivership cases, restructuring, assignments for the benefit
of creditors, and consideration of bankruptcy issues in
sophisticated corporate transactions. restructuring, assignments for
the benefit of creditors, and consideration of bankruptcy issues in
sophisticated corporate transactions. For over 40 years, she has
represented creditors, creditors' committees, trustees, receivers
and purchasers of distressed assets in virtually every type of
insolvency matter.
In addition to her role representing clients, Ms. Michelson is a
mediator, has been designated an expert witness, and served as a
Chapter 11 trustee. She has appeared on CNN and CourtTV to provide
expert legal analysis on insolvency topics and lectured
frequently.
Ms. Michelson represented the prevailing parties in Perlman
v. Catapult Entertainment, Inc (In re Catapult Entertainment, Inc.),
163 F.3d 747 (9th Cir.), cert. dismissed,120 S.Ct. 369 (U.S.1999),
the leading Ninth Circuit case on the treatment of intellectual
property in bankruptcy cases.
Ms. Michelson was president of the California Bankruptcy Forum and the
Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum, and she chaired the Commercial Law and
Bankruptcy Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco. She was
a director of the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring
Confederation (IWIRC), Northern California chapter. Ms. Michelson
has been selected as a Superlawyer each year since 2004.
Ms. Michelson was appointed by the United States District Court for
the Northern District of California to its Standing Committee on
Professional Ethics, which investigates attorneys referred by judges
for alleged unprofessional conduct. She served a resolution
advocate on the Bankruptcy Dispute Resolution Panel of the United
States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California. She
was a mediator in disputes between citizens and police officers for
San Francisco's Office of Citizen Complaints.
Ms. Michelson formerly was a partner at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown and
Enersen, and its successor, Bingham McCutchen, where she headed the
firm's Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights and Insolvency Group.
Ms. Michelson served as a law clerk to the Honorable Spencer Williams
of the United States District Court for the Northern District of
California. She received her J.D. from Yale University and her B.A.,
with distinction in all subjects, from Cornell University.
