Bankruptcy Bill has put together a list below of the bankruptcy lawyers for each celebrity bankruptcy (to the extent we can find the info).  If we’ve missed any lawyers or any worthy celebrities, please email bill [at] bankruptcybill.us to let us know, or just add a comment to this post.

Thanks to the following folks for supporting this post, each of whom is a celebrity in their own right in the bankruptcy world:

• Eugene Melchionne, Esq. – ConsumerBankruptcyTips.com (Waterbury, CT) – Connecticut State Chairman of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys and Current President of the Bankruptcy Law Network.

• Bill McLeod (McLeod Law Offices) – McLeod Law Blog (Boston, MA)

• Christine Wilton, Esq. – Los Angeles Bankrkuptcy Law Monitor (Los Angeles, CA)

• Kent Anderson Law – Oregon Debt Relief Weblawg and Debt Law Network (Eugene, OR)

• Cathy Moran, Esq. – BankruptcyMastery.com and On the Bankruptcy Soapbox (Mt View, CA) (aka Silicon Valley)

• Gailyn Wink & Michael Wink – Wink & Wink, P.C. (Denver, Co)

• Professor Nancy Rapoport – Blog: http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com (Las Vegas, NV) Gordon Silver Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, with specialties in bankruptcy ethics, ethics in governance, and the depiction of lawyers in popular culture.  She’s also the author of the book Enron: Corporate Fiascos and Their Implications (with Jeffrey Van Niel) and appeared in the movie Enron:  The Smartest Guys in the Room.

And now, without further ado, is the first ever….

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CELEBRITIES & THEIR BANKRUPTCY LAWYERS

Notably, two lawyers appear twice on this list.  Joseph Eisenberg apparently served as bankruptcy counsel to both actor Lorenzo Lamas and to Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil.  And big firm bankruptcy lawyer Debra Grassgreen served as debtor’s counsel to heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson and his company and also was lead counsel for the Creditors Committee in the bankruptcy of rap music star Marion “Suge” Knight.

B

Baldwin, Stephen

• Bruce Weiner, Esq. (Rosenberg Musso & Weiner) – NYBankruptcyNet (Brooklyn, NY)

Bracco, Lorraine

Buckner, Bill

C

Canseco, Jose

• Gregory Emerson, Esq. (Los Angeles, CA)
  

Corbin, Barry

• St. Clair Newbern III, Esq. (Ft Worth, TX)

D

Dykstra, Lenny

• Walter Hackett, Esq. – The Law Offices of Walter Hackett (Diamond Bar, CA)

F

Fingers, Rollie

G

Gwynn, Tony

K

Knight, Marion “Suge”

• Daniel McCarthy, Esq. – Hill, Farrer & Burrill LLP (Los Angeles, CA)
• Creditors Committee:  Debra Grassgreen, Esq. – Pachulski Stang Ziehl Young Jones & Weintraub; Website: http://knight.pszyjw.com

Kosar, Bernie

• Julianne R. Frank, Esq. – Frank, White-Boyd, P.A. (Palm Beach, FL)

L

Lamas, Lorenzo

• Joseph Eisenberg, Esq. – Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP (Los Angeles, CA)
  

Lee, Stan

M

McMahon, Ed

N

Neil, Vince (Motley Crue)

• Joseph Eisenberg, Esq. – Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP (Los Angeles, CA)

P

Perry, Gaylord

Q

Quaid, Randy

• Dick DeGuerin, Esq. – DeGuerin & Dickson (Houston, TX)
  

S

Sinbad (aka David Adkins)

T

Trump, Donald (Trump Holdings 2009 – In re TCI 2 Holdings LLC, 09-13654)

• Michael Walsh, Esq. – Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (New York, NY)
  
• Philip Rosen, Esq. – Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (New York, NY)
• Ted Waksman, Esq. – Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (New York, NY)

Tyson, Mike (and Mike Tyson Enterprises)

• Debra Grassgreen, Esq. – Pachulski Stang Ziehl Young Jones & Weintraub (Los Angeles, CA)
  
• Robert Feinstein, Esq. – Pachulski Stang Ziehl Young Jones & Weintraub (Los Angeles, CA)
• Malhar Pagay, Esq. – Pachulski Stang Ziehl Young Jones & Weintraub (Los Angeles, CA)
• Maria Bove, Esq. – Pachulski Stang Ziehl Young Jones & Weintraub (Los Angeles, CA)

V

Vick, Michael

• Michael Blumenthal – Crowell Moring LLP (New York, NY)

Have we missed any lawyers or any worthy celebrities?  Please email bill [at] bankruptcybill.us to let us know, or just add a comment to this post.