James M. Lawniczak is a partner at Calfee, Halter and Griswold LLP in Cleveland, Ohio. He concentrates his practice on corporate bankruptcy and creditors' rights, as well as commercial business and finance matters. His experience includes bankruptcy plans and related disclosure statements, cash collateral and financing orders, asset sales, executory contracts and unexpired leases, and bankruptcy litigation and appeals. Mr. Lawniczak is a frequent author and lecturer in his field. He is a contributing author to Collier on Bankruptcy, the leading national treatise on bankruptcy law. He is also the author of the bankruptcy chapters of the Matthew Bender treatises Asset Based Financing and Business Organizations with Tax Planning. He has been listed in multiple editions of Chambers USA as a Leading Lawyer for bankruptcy and restructuring and is recognized as one of the Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Lawniczak is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as an editor of the Michigan Law Review.