Dan S. Schechter
Professor of Law
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-1068
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: dan.schechter@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
BA, Loyola University
JD, University of California Los Angeles
While in law school, Dan Schechter served on the UCLA Law Review. After graduation, he practiced in the areas of insolvency, commercial finance and business litigation with the law firms of Gendel, Raskoff, Shapiro & Quittner, Los Angeles, and Levy & Norminton, Beverly Hills. Most of his scholarship is focused on commercial finance and corporate insolvency. Schechter joined the Loyola faculty in 1980.
Professional Memberships and Activities
Member of California State Bar Insolvency Law Committee, 2002 - present; legislative liaison; Schechter recently drafted an amendment to the California Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act that was enacted by the Legislature.
Schechter served as the Reporter for the Bankruptcy Foreclosure Fraud Task Force. The recommendations of the task force were enacted by Congress in 2005 as 11 U.S.C. § 362(d)(4).
Several times each year, Schechter provides continuing legal education programs on current developments in commercial finance and insolvency.
Author, "Commercial Finance Newsletter," a weekly column published by Westlaw, 2002 -- present.
Quarterly columnist for Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section, Los Angeles County Bar Association, 1994 -- present.
"The Perfect Storm: Bankruptcy Reform and the Economic Downturn," Loyola Lawyer, 2003.
"Comments on the New Romanian Collateral Law and its Effect on the Development of Commercial Finance," International Insolvency Review (November, 2000).
Asset-Based Commercial Finance, Bankruptcy, Property, Secured Transactions in Real Property