Leona Mogavero

Lee is both an advocate and a problem solver.  In most cases, she enters a situation in which something less than desirable has occurred—a borrower has defaulted on a loan, a bankruptcy petition has been filed, or some other event has transpired which makes the financial outcome (for all involved) problematic.  Her goal, if representing a secured creditor, is to maximize the creditor’s recovery in as efficient a manner as possible without becoming immersed in prolonged and costly proceedings.  If representing another party, for example a purchaser of assets in a bankruptcy case, the goal is similar—the best result without unnecessary costs and acrimony—in other words utilizing both advocacy and problem solving.

Lee is fortunate in that her practice affords her the opportunity to negotiate agreements, draft transactional documents, prepare pleadings, appear in court in trials and motion practice, and recover and liquate collateral—a true variety of legal endeavors.  The debtor/creditor bar is smaller than that of other practice areas; they are a collegial group that encounters each other on multiple occasions, and Lee is proud to have participated, along with her debtor-creditor bar colleagues, in many educational and community activities.