Attorney Profile Attorney C. Stephen Gurdin Jr.
Areas of Practice & Background
Attorney C. Stephen Gurdin Jr. provides quality legal services to individuals, corporations and law firms. Estimate of fees and costs are provided at no charge. Attorney C. Stephen Gurdin Jr.’s practice is devoted primarily to bankruptcy litigation and practice.
Attorney Profile Attorney Gurdin has extensive experience in all aspects of bankruptcy litigation and practice.
Areas of Practice
- Bankruptcy Law
- Business & Commercial Law
- Business Organizations
- Contracts
- Litigation & Appeals
Bar Admissions
- Pennsylvania, 1971
- U.S. District Court Middle District of Pennsylvania, 1971
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Middle District of Pennsylvania, 1971
Education
- University of Toledo College of Law, Toledo, Ohio
- J.D. – 1969
- Michigan State University
- A.B. – 1965
Classes/Seminars
- Presenter, Middle District Bankruptcy Bar Association Annual Conference, 2004
- Faculty, The New Local Bankruptcy Rules for the Middle District, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 2004
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Pennsylvania Bar Association, Member
- Wilkes-Barre Law and Library Association, Member
- Middle District Bankruptcy Bar Association, Founding Member
- Middle District 8000-9000 Rules Committee, Chairman
Providing assistance to both debtor and creditor clients in Chapter 7, Chapter 11, and Chapter 13 cases, and in litigation, in both adversary and contested practice, involving:
- Counterclaims involving the estate and claimants
- Turn over of property
- Preferences
- Relief and modification of the automatic stay
- Proceedings to determine, avoid or recover fraudulent conveyances pursuant to
- 11 U.S.C. 548 and 544(b)
- Dischargeability of particular debts
- Objections to discharge
- Validity, extent or priority of liens
- Confirmation of plan
- Disclosure statement issues
- Orders approving the use, sale or lease of property, including the use of cash collateral; orders approving the sale of property other than property resulting from claims brought by the estate against persons who have not filed claims against the estate, and other proceeding affecting the liquidation of the assets of the estate or the adjustment of debtor-creditor or equity security holder relationship
- Determination of core/non-core status, as well as non-core proceedings pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 157(b)(3)including predatory lender actions and withdrawal of reference actions pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §157 (d).
