M. Elaine Hammond

Elaine Hammond is a partner with Friedman Dumas & Springwater LLP.  Ms. Hammond specializes in all aspects of business reorganizations and liquidations in Chapter 11 cases.  She has represented debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, creditors' committees and trustees in varied Chapter 11 cases.

 

Ms. Hammond has represented Universal Music Group Distribution in numerous bankruptcies of music retailers, including Musicland and Tower Records.  She is currently representing the West Contra Costa Healthcare District as the debtor in a municipal bankruptcy case under Chapter 9.  Previously, Ms. Hammond handled numerous aspects of the representation of Chapter 11 debtors in the bankruptcies of a collocation-service provider and an on-line textbook retailer.  Ms. Hammond has also represented major high tech companies in various bankruptcy cases and an insurer in asbestos bankruptcy cases.  Ms. Hammond has extensive experience in representing defendants in avoidance actions.

 

Ms. Hammond was law clerk to the Honorable Edward D. Jellen, Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California.  She is the author of “Toward a More Colorblind Society?: Congressional Redistricting After Shaw v. Hunt and Bush v. Vera,” 75 North Carolina Law Review 2151 (1997), and served as an articles editor of the North Carolina Law Review in 1997-1998.

 

Ms. Hammond is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina.  She received her undergraduate degree from Duke University in 1992 and a J.D. with honors from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1998.  Ms. Hammond was admitted to the State Bar of California in December 1998.