Donald R. Lassman

DONALD R. LASSMAN is a sole practitioner in Needham, Massachusetts concentrating in the areas of bankruptcy, insolvency and business reorganization since 1983. Mr. Lassman is a member of the bar of the Commonwealths of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, the Boston Bar Association, the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees and the American Bankruptcy Institute, and has been a member of the panel of Chapter 7 Trustees for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts since 1995. He has earned the "Preeminent" Peer Review Rating by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating available. Since 2008, Mr. Lassman has been involved in leading the effort of the Boston Bar Association to provide legal assistance to members of the military and their families, traveling to VFW posts throughout Massachusetts to provide informational seminars about consumer and bankruptcy laws. Mr. Lassman participates in many continuing legal education programs as Chairperson and Panelist and has written extensively on legal issues relating to insolvency and bankruptcy, including most recently co-authoring a monograph entitled "REAFFIRMATION AGREEMENTS" first published by the American Bankruptcy Institute in 2009 with a second edition published in 2010, an article entitled "INDIVIDUAL CHAPTER11's REALLY DO WORK" that appeared in the March 2008 edition of the ABI Journal, and an article entitled "Inherited IRAs: Exemption issues under the Code" that appeared in the May 2011 edition of the ABI Journal and a monograph entitled "MOVING FOR RELIEF FROM THE AUTOMATIC STAY IN BANKRUTPCY" published by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. in 2006.