NANCY RAPOPORT JOINS DIRECTORS OF AMERICAN
BOARD OF CERTIFICATION
UH Law Center Professor Named to Group
that Oversees Bankruptcy, Creditor’s Rights Attorneys
HOUSTON, December 11, 2006 – Nancy B. Rapoport, professor
of law at the University of Houston Law Center, has been named to
the board of directors of the American Board of Certification, a
non-profit organization that certifies attorneys in consumer bankruptcy
law, business bankruptcy law, and creditor’s rights law, all
of which are accredited by the American Bar Association.
ABC certification standards are designed to encourage bankruptcy
and creditors’ rights practitioners to strive toward excellence
and to recognize those attorneys who are experts in those fields.
Rapoport is currently on sabbatical from the UH Law Center until
summer 2007, when she will leaves to become the Gordon & Silver,
Ltd., Professor of Law at the Boyd School of Law, University of
Nevada, Las Vegas.
A summa cum laude graduate of Rice University, Rapoport
received her J.D. from Stanford Law School. She clerked for the
Honorable Joseph T. Sneed on the United States Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit and then practiced primarily bankruptcy law
with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. She started her academic
career at The Ohio State University College of Law in 1991, and
served as Dean and Professor of Law of the University of Nebraska
College of Law (1998-2000) and as Dean and Professor of Law of the
UH Law Center (2000-2006).
Rapoport’s specialties include bankruptcy ethics, ethics
in governance, and the depiction of lawyers in popular culture.
Her published works include “Enron: Corporate Fiascos and
Their Implications” (Foundation Press 2004, co-edited with
Bala G. Dharan of Rice). She has also appeared in the Academy Award®-nominated
documentary “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” (Magnolia
Pictures 2005). She is admitted to the bars of the states of California,
Ohio, Nebraska, and Texas and of the United States Supreme Court.
In 2001, she was elected to membership in the American Law Institute,
and in 2002, she received a Distinguished Alumna Award from Rice
University. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a
Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.
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