Stanley E. Goldich

Stanley Goldich, resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office for the past 40 years, has a practice that primarily has involved the representation of debtors, creditors’ committees, trustees, and other parties in chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. Stan also consults on conflicts and ethics issues in the firm’s representations and is a former chair of the LACBA Ethics Committee, on which he served for over fifteen years. In addition to playing a lead role as debtor’s counsel in many successful chapter 11 reorganizations and going-concern sales, Stan was lead counsel in creditor’s committee representations where committee-sponsored plans of reorganization were successfully confirmed. Stan holds an AV Preeminent Peer Rating, Martindale-Hubbell’s highest recognition for ethical standards and legal ability, and has been included in every edition of Best Lawyers in America since 2019 for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law.

Programs & Lectures

Los Angeles County Bar Association, Strafford CLE, CLE International

Publications

•The Sixth Circuit-Joining the Fourth, Fifth and Tenth Circuits-Holds That BAPCPA Did Not Abolish the Absolute-Priority Rule for Individual Chapter 11 Debtors
Norton Bankruptcy Law Advisor (No. 9 at 12), September 2014
•Plain Meaning Rules: Did BAPCPA Abolish the Absolute-Priority Rule? 31 American Bankruptcy Institute Journal No. 5 @ 34, June 2012
•Coauthor with Richard Pachulski, “Representation of Affliliated Corporate Entities in Chapter 11 Cases: Conflicts of Interest and Disclosure Issues,” for the 17th Annual California Bankruptcy Forum (May 13-15, 2005)

News

PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2025 Edition of Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch

August 15, 2024

PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2024 Edition of Best Lawyers in America

August 17, 2023

PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2023 Edition of Best Lawyers in America

August 18, 2022

PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2022 Edition of Best Lawyers in America

August 19, 2021

PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2021 Edition of Best Lawyers in America

August 20, 2020

PSZJ Attorneys Named in Best Lawyers in America

August 15, 2019

PSZJ Attorneys Named in Best Lawyers in America

August 15, 2018

Events

Absolute Priority Rule for Individual Chapter 11 Cases

Los Angeles County Bar Association Los Angeles, November 8, 2012

Individual Chapter 11 Cases and the Absolute Priority Rule

Navigating Absolute Priority Amid Differing Court Interpretations of the Rule Live 90-minute CLE webinar/teleconference with interactive Q&A, May 23, 2012

Ethics 2004 - Keeping Current in a Changing World, Confidentiality of Privileged Communications

Los Angeles County Bar Association November 20, 2004