Thomas Richard Phinney

Thomas Richard Phinney is a bankruptcy attorney at Felderstein Fitzgerald Willoughby Pascuzzi & Rios LLP in Sacramento. He was admitted to the State Bar of California on June 19, 1992, holds bar number 159435, and is an active licensee in good standing ^[1]. Phinney earned his law degree at the UC Davis School of Law. Before joining his current firm, he was a partner at the Sacramento bankruptcy practice Parkinson Phinney beginning in 2005, and earlier practiced at Weintraub Genshlea & Sproul from 1997 to 2005. He is certified as a specialist in bankruptcy law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization and in business bankruptcy law by the American Board of Certification, and he has served with the California Lawyers Association, including its Business Law Section and Government Affairs Committee. His firm concentrates on bankruptcy and insolvency matters, representing debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, trustees, committees, examiners, and purchasers of assets in chapter 7, 9, and 11 cases, along with insolvency-related litigation, receiverships, and out-of-court workouts ^[2]. The firm's lawyers have represented the California Office of the Attorney General, CalPERS, and other state agencies as regulators and creditors in cases including the chapter 11 proceedings of Lehman Brothers, Pacific Gas & Electric, WorldCom, Enron, and Texaco, and the chapter 9 cases of the City of Vallejo and the City of San Bernardino ^[2].