Kimberly Haskell Email & Phone Number

I am a certified paralegal with extensive experience in commercial litigation, bankruptcy and debtor and creditor rights and remedies.I prepare Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 petitions and schedules for individuals and businesses then assist debtors who are reorganizing with formulating their plan and drafting a disclosure statement in order to solicit creditor acceptance and obtain court approval.I assist creditors in advancing or protecting their interests by, e.g.: preparing proofs of claim; drafting motions seeking relief from the automatic stay to allow secured creditors to pursue their rights in their security; analyzing debtor’s schedules; and drafting adversary complaints objecting to discharge or dischargeability where appropriate, I analyze the treatment of a creditor's claim throughout the bankruptcy process. This includes scrutinizing monthly reports submitted by a debtor, determining how a plan proposed by the debtor treats specific claims and classes of claims, preparing objections to the adequacy of disclosure statements; analyzing proposed plans for feasibility, fairness and compliance with bankruptcy code requirements; as well as drafting objections to plan confirmation if necessary.I also assist clients in responding to adversary complaints or pre-suit demands for repayment of alleged preferential payments or fraudulent transfers, analyzing the applicability and strength of defenses (such as ordinary course, new value, conduit, threshold or contemporaneous exchange) and assists with advancing the appropriate defenses.I have years of experience in civil matters in both state and federal court drafting complaints, affirmative defenses, discovery, motions and briefs. I prepare residential and commercial foreclosures and mechanics liens as well as assess the viability of defenses to lien claims based on failure to adhere to strict statutory requirements or enhancement. I have also assisted with successfully defending clients accused of TCPA violations. I began my professional career as a residential counselor, working with troubled youth in group home settings in Wisconsin and Hawaii. As a military spouse, I moved to Arizona where I worked as a Program Manager with the Arizona Administrative Office of the Courts in its Juvenile Probation Department.After returning to the Midwest, I worked as a paralegal for more than 17 years at two Chicago area law firms prior to joining Clingen Callow & McLean, LLC in 2015.