Brian W. Hockett

Partner

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Overview
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Brian practices in the firm’s Financial Restructuring group and focuses on protecting and advancing the financial interests of secured creditors, unsecured creditors, and debtors in all aspects of debtor-creditor relationships, including work out, litigation, and bankruptcy.

American Bar Association

The Missouri Bar

Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis

Illinois State Bar Association

American Bankruptcy Institute

Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers® 2010 and 2011 "Rising Star"

Payment of "Stub Rent" in Commercial Tenant Bankruptcy Cases ABA Real Property, Trust & Estate Section eReport (October, 2010)

Discharge and Dischargeability Chapter Missouri Bar CLE Bankruptcy Practice Deskbook (2nd Ed.) (2007)

"2011 Amendments to Revised Article 9" Missouri Bar Commercial Law Webinar (November 2011)

"Update on Discharge and Dischargeability" Missouri Bar Annual Bankruptcy Institute (February 2011)

"The Chrysler & General Motors Bankruptcies: A Reaffirmation of the 363(b) Sale Process and the Sale of Assets Outside a Plan of Reorganization" Missouri Bar Commercial Law Committee (August 2009)

"Impact of Bankruptcy on the Landlord-Tenant Relationship" Negotiating Commercial Leases, Sterling Education Services, Inc. (July 2009)

"When Tenant or Landlord Files Bankruptcy" Landlord Tenant Law, Sterling Education Services, Inc. (December 2008)

"Distinguishing Between the True Lease and a Disguised Security Agreement" Thirty-Seventh Annual N.D. Iowa Bankruptcy Seminar (August 2007)

"Judgment Enforcement In Missouri" Lorman Education Services (September 2006)

“Collection Law in Missouri” Lorman Educational Services (November 2005)

“Bankruptcy Basics” Missouri Society of Accountants (August 2005)

Education

Saint Louis University School of Law: J.D., magna cum laude (2003); Managing Editor, St. Louis University Law Journal
Truman State University: B.A., cum laude (1999)