Hutchinson joins Plunkett Cooney’s Banking Group

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (December 16, 2011) - Senior banking attorney Donald J. Hutchinson recently joined the Banking, Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Practice Group of Plunkett Cooney, one of the Midwest’s oldest and largest law firms.

“Don has extensive background resolving bankruptcy issues and analyzing bankruptcy risk,” said Douglas C. Bernstein, the firm’s Banking, Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Practice Group Leader. “He is a tremendous asset to Plunkett Cooney’s banking team and an attorney who works diligently to make sure his clients’ interests are protected.”

An attorney in the firm’s Bloomfield Hills office, Hutchinson focuses his practice in the areas of bankruptcy and finance, with particular emphasis on loan restructuring, enforcement and insolvency. He represents secured creditors, unsecured creditors, unsecured creditors’ committees, landlords and bankruptcy trustees in Chapter 11, Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases, in creditors' assignments, in international insolvency proceedings and in out-of-court workouts.

In 2011, Hutchinson was acknowledged as a "Best Lawyer in America®" for his work in litigation - bankruptcy by Best Lawyers, one of the nation’s oldest and most trusted peer-to-peer rating services, and he has earned Martindale-Hubbell’s highest rating- AV® Preeminent™.

A member of the State Bar of Michigan, the American and Federal bar associations and the American Bankruptcy Institute, Hutchinson is licensed to practice in the Michigan trial and appellate courts and in the U.S. trial and 3rd and 6th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals.

Hutchinson graduated from University of Michigan Law School in 1986. He received his undergraduate degree with high distinction from University of Michigan - Dearborn in 1983.

The members of Plunkett Cooney’s Banking, Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights Practice Group have represented banks, savings and loan associations, mortgage companies, credit unions and finance companies for over 25 years. Members of the group have nearly 150 years of combined experience as in-house bank counsel prior to joining the firm.

Established in 1913, Plunkett Cooney employs approximately 160 attorneys in nine Michigan cities, Columbus, Ohio and Indianapolis, Indiana. The firm, which provides a range of transactional and litigation services, has achieved the highest rating (AV) awarded by Martindale-Hubbell, a leading, international directory of law firms.

For more information about banking attorney Donald J. Hutchinson joining the firm, contact Plunkett Cooney’s Practice Development Manager John Cornwell at (248) 901-4008; jcornwell@plunkettcooney.com.

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