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GARDEN CITY, NY; January 24, 2022—Moritt Hock & Hamroff has announced that Leslie A. Berkoff, a Partner of the firm, has been recognized by Lawdragon as one of its 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers for 2022.

The annual Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America is the most elite distinction in the profession, covering the best of the best in all practice areas.

Leslie A. Berkoff is a Partner with the firm where she serves as the Chair of the firm's Dispute Resolution Practice Group, is the former Chair of the Bankruptcy Practice Group, and serves on the firm's Management Committee. In the restructuring space, Ms. Berkoff concentrates her practice in chapter 11 cases, bankruptcy, litigation and corporate workouts where she represents a variety of corporate debtors, trustees, creditors and creditor committees both nationally and locally. Ms. Berkoff's Dispute Resolution practice has her frequently serving as an ad hoc and panel mediator, she is on the Mediation Panels for the Eastern and Southern Districts of the United States Bankruptcy Courts in New York and the United States Bankruptcy Courts in Delaware and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Ms. Berkoff also serves as a member of the Second Circuit United States Court of Appeals Pro Bono Appellate Mediation Panel where she often focuses on bankruptcy appeals.  Ms. Berkoff serves as the Chair of the Mediation Sub-Committee of Chapter 11 Lawyers and Judges Advisory Committee for the United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of New York. She also served as Co-Chair of the American Bankruptcy Institute's (ABI) Healthcare Insolvency Committee from 2008 to 2011 and Co-Chair of ABI's Mediation Committee from 2018 to 2020. She is a Contributing Editor for the ABI's Journal for a regular column entitled Mediation Matters and was Co-Editor of the ABI's Bankruptcy Mediation Manual (2016) and its Health Care Insolvency Manual, Third Edition (2012).  In addition, Ms. Berkoff also serves as the American Bar Association (ABA) Business Law Section's representative on the Dispute Resolution Advisory Council, and is the Chair of the Dispute Resolution Committee, the Vice-Chair of Programming for the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the Business Law Section and the Vice-Chair of the Bankruptcy Study & Policy Committee. She also serves on the Board of Editors Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law. Ms. Berkoff earned her J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law and is the former Law Clerk to the Honorable Jerome Feller (ret.) United States Bankruptcy Judge EDNY, as well as, the Honorable Allyne Ross, United States Judge Eastern District of New York.

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