Julie Dyas Goldberg is of counsel to the firm and has more than twenty years of experience in the insolvency arena. Ms. Goldberg’s specialty is representing debtors and debtors-in-possession throughout the Chapter 11 and post-confirmation process, though she also frequently represents creditors’ committees and individual creditors whose businesses intersect with insolvencies. Ms. Goldberg has substantial experience in the retail/manufacturing, real estate and airline industries

In addition to her long tenure with HBB, Ms. Goldberg 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. At those firms, she gained substantial expertise in Chapter 15 actions, real estate matters, ERISA topics, general secured transactions in the context of Chapter 11 cases, and asset sales, generally representing the non-debtor purchaser.

Ms. Goldberg earned her J.D. from The University of Texas, in 2002, where she contemporaneously completed a Ph.D. in Linguistics. Dr. Goldberg also holds a M.A. in French from The University of Alabama and a B.A./B.S. in French and Mathematics from Birmingham-Southern College. She is fluent in English and French and continues her study of all Romance Languages.

Ms. Goldberg 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 Annual Conrad B. Duberstein National Bankruptcy Memorial Moot Court Competition.

  • Yellow Corporation. Representing Liquidating Trustee
  • Revlon Inc. Representing GUC Administrator
  • Briggs & Stratton Corporation. Representing the Plan Administrator
  • E. Gluck Corp. Representing the Debtor
  • Insys Therapeutics, Inc. Representing Liquidating Trustee
  • Century 21 Department Stores LLC. Representing Plan Administrator
  • Global Benefits Group. Representing the Liquidation Trustee
  • Global Brands Group. Representing the Plan Administrator
  • The Farber Center. Representing the Debtor
  • Dreier LLP. Representing major creditor
  • Brunschwig & Fils, Inc. Representing the Debtor
  • Avaya, Inc. Representing major creditor.
  • Speed Vegas LLC. Representing the Debtor
  • Eastman Kodak Company. Representing GUC Trustee
  • Haverhill Chemicals LLC. Representing the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors
  • Green Field Energy Services, Inc. Representing Liquidation Trustee
  • Dana Corporation. Representing the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors
  • Contest Promotions-NY LLC. Representing the Debtor
  • Everything But Water. Representing the Debtor
  • US Airways. Representing the Air Transportation Stabilization Board
  • Kaiser Aluminum. Representing major creditor
  • R.F. Cunningham. Representing the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors
  • Aztec Metal Maintenance Corp. Representing the Debtor
  • Oakwood Homes. Representing the Liquidation Trust
  • Mark Chapman and Julie Dyas, Formal Composition Agreement: A Cost Effective Option to Chapter 11, New York Law Journal (April 30, 2010)
  • Julie Dyas, Linguistic Features of Lying Under Oath: An Experimental Study of English and French. University of Texas Press, (April 2002) (Doctoral dissertation research cross-linguistically compared whether targeted verbal indicators of lying influence the impressions of witness veracity by a trier of fact)
  • Named to Metro New York Super Lawyers List in Bankruptcy Law, various years including 2025 & 2026

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