Jennifer L. Maffett

Practices

• Business Restructuring, Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy
• Commercial & Public Finance

Professional Experience

Jennifer is a partner in the firm's Business Restructuring, Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy and Commercial and Public Finance practice groups. She focuses her practice on creditors' rights and remedies under the Uniform Commercial Code, Bankruptcy Code and state law to enforce creditors' rights in state and federal Courts and Bankruptcy Courts. She also focuses on corporate finance and banking, including the representation of lenders and borrowers in connection with financing of capital projects and working capital loans, and the restructuring and workout of non-performing loans.

Jennifer is admitted to practice in Ohio.

Education

• University of Dayton School of Law, J.D., 2002, summa cum laude, Law Review, Executive Editor 2001-2002
• University of Dayton, B.A., 1998, summa cum laude

• The Effect of §503(B)(9) on the §547(c)(4) Subsequent New Value Defense: Does Commissary Operations Make a Good First Impression? 6 Norton Bankr. L. Advisor (June 2010) (co-authored with Lawrence T. Burick)
• Allowability of Attorney's Fees Incurred Postpetition as Part of an Unsecured Claim: The Next Chapter of a Still Unfinished Book - 11 Norton Bankr. L. Advisor (Nov. 2009) (co-authored with Lawrence T. Burick)
• When is a Claim Not a Claim: Does Apex Oil Clarify or Confuse? 12 Norton Bankr. L. Advisor (Dec. 2009) (co-authored with Lawrence T. Burick)
• Balancing Freedom of Speech Against the Rights of Unwilling Listeners: The Attack on the First Amendment in Hill v. Colorado · 26 U. Dayton L. Rev. 327, 2001
• Keeping the Promise of a Fresh Start: Why Debtors Should be Empowered with a Private Right of Action for Violations of the Discharge Injunction · 27 Dayton L. Rev. 95 , 2001

• Selected for Leadership Dayton Class of 2012 sponsored by Dayton Chamber of Commerce
• Selected for inclusion in Rising Stars by Ohio Super Lawyer magazine from 2010-2012