Shayna Steinfeld
Shayna M. Steinfeld practices exclusively in the areas of bankruptcy and corporate reorganization in Georgia. She litigates in Bankruptcy, Federal District and Appellate Courts, representing all types of parties in all cases. She is a trained mediator and has taught bankruptcy (winter and spring 2001) at the John Marshall Law School in Atlanta. She also served for 3 years as a Special Assistant Administrative Law Judge for the Office of State Administrative Hearings. Shayna and Bruce, together, have co-authored and published The Family Lawyer’s Guide to Bankruptcy, which is in its 2nd Edition and is published by the American Bar Association.
Shayna is a leader in the Atlanta legal community. Most recently she served as President of the Atlanta Bar Association (2008-2009) with its 6300 members. She earned the “Section of the Year” award as Chair of the Bankruptcy Section of the State Bar of Georgia (2007-2008). She is a past-president of the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers (1996-97), which honored her with their trailblazer award for being an outstanding woman in the profession in May 2008, receiving the Kathleen Kessler Award. She has Chaired the Sole Practitioner/Small Firm Section (2001-02, earning the Atlanta Bar Association’s Section of the Year Award in May 2002) and the Bankruptcy Section (2006-07) of the Atlanta Bar. She has been further honored by the Women in the Profession Committee of the Atlanta Bar Association when she was honored with its “Outstanding Woman in the Profession Achievement Award” in July, 2002. She has been a Vice President for the National Conference of Women Bar Associations (she served on that Board in various capacities from 1997 through 2002). She was the President of the Metropolitan Atlanta Consumer Bankruptcy Group during 2000-01, and in that capacity worked with Georgia Legislators to draft and to obtain passage of amended Georgia Exemptions for use in bankruptcy cases for the first time in over 20 years. She was President of the Atlanta Hadassah Attorney’s Council from when it was established in 2000 (earning a leadership award in May, 2002) until 2006. She is one of the “founding mothers” of the “IWIRC-Georgia” (the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation). She co-chaired the Bankruptcy Committee of the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association for approximately 5 years. In that capacity, she was involved in the ad hoc Bankruptcy Committee of the American Bar Association, which worked to convince Congress not to pass the Bankruptcy Legislation in the 2000-02 session (specifically as it involved the attorney liability provisions) (this is the legislation that ultimately passed in 2005). She is licensed to appear before Georgia State and Federal Courts and the United States Supreme Court.
A graduate of Emory University College (B.A., 1986), Law School (J.D., 1990) and Business School (M.B.A., 1990), Shayna has been a frequent lecturer on various bankruptcy-related topics to numerous local and state-wide bar associations and has authored several articles appearing in the state bar journal and section newsletters. Shayna has been a frequent lecturer, locally, nationally and internationally on various bankruptcy-related topics to numerous bar associations and has authored numerous publications appearing in professional journals, chapters of reference books, law review articles and other articles and programs. Shayna also frequently serves as a role model as a working mom, as she discusses how she has balanced her professional career and her three sons, who are now teenagers.
