Lynne Riley

Lynne F. Riley is a partner with the Boston firm of Casner & Edwards LLP.  Lynne represents individuals, businesses, trustees and creditors’ committees in bankruptcy cases, including litigation and appeals.  She has served as a chapter 7 panel trustee for the District of Massachusetts for 19 years, and serves as a chapter 12 trustee and trustee and examiner in chapter 11 cases.  Lynne is on the executive board of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees and chairs its amicus committee and serves as NABT liaison to the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges.  Lynne is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and serves on its pro bono committee.  She is the former co-chair of the Boston Bar Association, Bankruptcy Section, and served on the BBA’s Education Committee from 2004-2011.  Lynne served on the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Northeast Conference Steering Committee from 1999-2013 and was network chair of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation from 2000-2002.  Lynne speaks locally and nationally on bankruptcy topics and has published articles in the Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, and Journal of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees. Lynne is editor for the Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, Part 2, covering consumer bankruptcy topics.  Lynne has authored briefs on bankruptcy issues at the First and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court, and has briefed and argued appeals at the First Circuit Court of Appeals and Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, and the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.  She has taught contracts and bankruptcy as adjunct faculty at Boston area law schools and currently teaches consumer bankruptcy at Boston College Law School.