NEWS RELEASE
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 11, 2006

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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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