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Julie D. Dyas
is a Senior Associate at Halperin Battaglia Raicht, LLP. She has
substantial experience in the retail, manufacturing, commodities and
airline industries, and has been a part of legal teams in the Dreier
LLP, Tana Seybert LLC, US Airways (2002 and 2004), Geneva Steel, Kaiser
Aluminum, Aztec Metal & Maintenance Corp., Room Interior Products
USA, Inc., R.F. Cunningham & Co., Inc., Lodgian, Oakwood Homes
Corporation, and other bankruptcies. Though Ms. Dyas often works
on cases representing debtors and debtors-in-possession, she is also
thoroughly versed in representations of creditors’ committees as
well as individual creditors whose businesses intersect with
insolvencies.
Prior to her current association with HBR, Ms. Dyas was an associate in
the Bankruptcy and Creditor’s Rights practice group at Morrison
& Foerster LLP, and began her career at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost,
Colt & Mosle LLP. During her tenure at those firms, she gained
substantial expertise in Chapter 15 actions, secured transactions in
the context of Chapter 11 cases, as well as asset sales, generally
representing the non-debtor purchaser.
Ms. Dyas earned her J.D. from The University of Texas, in 2002, where
she contemporaneously completed a Ph.D. in Linguistics. Her
doctoral research is titled “Linguistic Features of Lying Under
Oath: An Experimental Study of English and French.” Her
research cross-linguistically compared whether targeted verbal
indicators of lying influence the impressions of witness veracity by a
trier of fact. Dr. Dyas also holds a M.A. in French Literature
from The University of Alabama and a B.A. in French from
Birmingham-Southern College. She is fluent in English and French.
Ms. Dyas is admitted to practice in the State of New York, including
the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. She is a member
of the American Bankruptcy Institute, and has served as a judge for
both oral argument and brief competitions at the Fourteenth Annual
Conrad B. Duberstein National Bankruptcy Memorial Moot Court
Competition in 2006. She recently published an article in the
April 30, 2010 edition of the New York Law Journal titled “Formal
Composition Agreement: A Cost Effective Option to Chapter 11.”
Contact
Julie Dyas: jdyas@halperinlaw.net
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