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Louis J. Esbin is a Financial Lawyer with over twenty-four years of experience in Bankruptcy, Commercial Law, Secured and Unsecured Transactions, Buy-Outs, and Litigation, representing individuals, small businesses, corporate start-ups, as well as clients from Wall Street Broker Dealers, Las Vegas Casinos, Banks, and Nonbank Lenders. He is the only Certified Bankruptcy Specialist by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization practicing in the Santa Clarita Valley. He was a founding member and during 2008, he was president of the Central District Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys Association (with 160 members the second largest consumer bankruptcy attorney association in the United States).

Louis Esbin has an undergraduate degree in Finance and Accounting from the State University of New York at Albany and a law degree from Golden Gate University School of Law. During the first two years following law school he clerked for Bankruptcy Court judges in Oakland, California, as well as Los Angeles. Over his career, he has associated with law firms in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Century City and New York, from which he represented a diverse group of corporate and institutional clients. Throughout his career, representation has included both sides of the creditor-debtor relationship, and nearly all parties in interest that may participate in either a bankruptcy case, bankruptcy litigation or state court litigation.

Louis Esbin assists corporate management and sole proprietorship clients in the course of assessing and minimizing risk and maximizing returns in regards to default situations and work out arrangements that may arise due to the current changes in interest rates and the (in)ability of borrowers to service loans while straining under increased household or business budget expenses. In response to the sweeping amendments to the Bankruptcy Code in 2005 Louis Esbin co-authored a book with three other certified specialists as a practice guide for other attorneys on how to practice bankruptcy law under the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention Consumer Protection Act. Very well received, the Practice Guide sits on judges benches as equally as lawyers desks. He is also currently editing the bankruptcy chapters of the CEB publication, California Mortgage & Deed of Trust Guide, an authoritative treatise used by banks, judges, and lawyers alike. He is a frequent lecturer to bar associations, accountants and realtors on the impact of bankruptcy on their clients, as well as their own businesses and business models.

Louis Esbin has been a member of the Newhall-Santa Clarita Rotary Club since 1993, serving at times as secretary and vocational chair. He has also presided as a Santa Clarita Community Court Judge since 2007, a one of kind diversion program for at risk youth. He believes that his responsibility is to be the emergency room surgeon of the economy and in his community, performing triage on clients to assist them in “seeing the forest from the trees” of economic despair and confusion.

LAW OFFICES OF LOUIS J. ESBIN

27201 Tourney Road, Suite 122 Valencia, California 91355-1857

Tel: 661-254-5050 Fax: 661-254-5252 E-mail: Esbinlaw@sbcglobal.net | Web: www.esbinlaw.com

Alan M. Insul is an AV rated attorney limiting practice to corporate, business and real estate. Mr. Insul Graduated UCLA in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology, and he received his J.D. degree in 1978 from Southwestern University School of Law. Mr. Insul was admitted in 1978 to both the California and Federal Court (Central District). While in law school Mr. Insul was the first runner-up in the intramural Moot Court Competition and a member of the Moot Court Honors Program (Roger Traynor Competition). In addition, he served as an intern summer clerk to the Honorable Lynn Compton, Presiding Justice, District Two, Division Two of California Court of Appeals. In practice for 30 years, Mr. Insul is a member of the California Bar and the Los Angeles County Bar Association and longtime member of the Real Estate and Business law sections of both organizations. He has authored many articles on business and real estate law including multiple chapters of the recently published Selecting and Forming Business Entities (Second Edition), published by CEB. Mr. Insul also Vice-Chairmen of the Editorial Board and Managing Editor of the Business Law News (a quarterly publication of the California State Bar’s Business Law Section).



Professionally Mr. Insul limits his practice to the areas of corporate, real estate, and business law for transactional matters as well as litigation. In real estate, he has extensive experience ranging from lending and acquisition transactions to real estate litigation. In business and corporate law, Mr. Insul has advised start-ups, emerging enterprises, established companies as well as troubled businesses seeking to avoid bankruptcy. Mr. Insul litigation experience extends to appellate matters including published opinions. Foothill Village Homeowners Assn. V. Bishop (1999) 68 Cal. App. 4th 1364; Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. V Tutungi (1998) 66 Cal. App. 4th 727; Martin v. World Savings & Loan Assn. (2001) 92 Cal. App. 4th 803. These cases are cited in both California and nationally recognized treatises on the law (e.g. Miller and Star, Witkin and Corbin on Contracts). The Foothill Village Homeowners Assn case was selected by the Real Property section of the California State Bar as one of the ten most significant real property cases for 1999. In the late 1980's Mr. Insul became CEO to a California based telecommunications company with multiple offices. He has also acted as CEO to an international data network company in the mid-90's.



Mr. Insul’s civic, community and authorship activities over the last 30 years are varied and extensive: Member of the California State Bar and its Real Property and Business law sections; Member of the Los Angeles County Bar Assn and its Real Property and Business law sections; Vice-Chairmen of the Editorial Board and Managing Editor Business Law News (official publication of the California State Bar’s Business Law Section); Author Ch 3 (Selecting a Business Name) and Ch. 7 (Limited Liability Partnerships) in the recently published book Selecting and Forming Business Entities (2nd Ed.) published by the Continuing Education of the Bar; Executive Committee/Board of Directors - Valley Industry Commerce Association, VICA; Monthly column writer for Valley Business Journal; Board of Directors - L.A. Community Re-Use, Inc.; Chairman Insurance Sub-committee - California State Senate Small Business Advisory Committee; Co-Chairman Task Force - California State Senate’s Select Committee on the Northridge earthquake; Past President/Board of Directors - Encino Chamber of Commerce; Secretary/Board of Directors - Cal-Tel; Secretary L.A. Chapter - Real Estate Syndications and Securities Institute; Member - San Fernando Valley Transportation Task Force; Board of Directors - United Chamber of Commerce; Board of Directors - Jay Nolan Center.