Attorney Details

Eric P. Israel. Mr. Israel was admitted to the California bar in 1987. He holds degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles (B.A., 1981) and Southwestern University (J.D., with honors, 1987). He was a member of the Southwestern University Law Review. In 1987, Mr. Israel began his career at Danning, Gill, Diamond & Kollitz, LLP, and since 2005 has been an equity partner at that Firm (through his professional corporation). He is a member of the Financial Lawyers Conference, the California (Board Member), Los Angeles and Orange County Bankruptcy Forums, and the Century City, Los Angeles County (Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Committee, Bankruptcy Subcommittee), Beverly Hills and American Bar Associations. He has served as an editor of the California Bankruptcy Journal since 1998 and was special issue editor for the Special Trustee Issue (26 Cal. Bankr. J. vol. 26 (2002)); Mr. Israel has served as co managing editor of the California Bankruptcy Journal since 2006. Currently, he is the Programs Chair of the Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section of the L.A. County Bar Association (formerly Secretary). He is a certified mediator through the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution of the Pepperdine University School of Law and has served on the panel of mediators for the Bankruptcy Courts for the Central District of California from the inception of the mediation program in 1995 to the present. He has lectured and written on bankruptcy related topics. He authored the articles “Hints on Making the Most of Your Estate’s Assets: Often Overlooked Methods to Maximize Equity”, 26 Cal. Bankr. J. 199 (2002) and “Of Racketeers, RICO, the Enterprise-Separateness Issue and Chicken Little: What’s Really Falling?” 17 Sw. L. Rev. 565 (1988).