Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute presented David P. Leibowitz of Lakelaw (Chicago) and Summer Shaw of Shaw & Hanover, PC (Palm Desert, Calif.) with the ABI Annual Service Award at ABI’s 2023 Annual Spring Meeting in April. The Service Award is presented to ABI members whose contributions over the past year have been extraordinary, as determined by ABI’s advisory board of past presidents. Leibowitz and Shaw received the Annual Service Award for their efforts in launching ABI’s annual Consumer Practice Extravaganza (CPEX), a consumer-focused virtual program held over two weeks each fall and now in its third year.

An ABI member since 1991 and a member of ABI’s Board of Directors, Leibowitz is managing member of Lakelaw, where he represents consumer and business debtors and serves as a chapter 7 trustee. He also serves as senior legal advisor to Upright Law. Leibowitz is admitted to practice in Illinois and Wisconsin and has practiced throughout the country. He also served as co-chair of an ABI task force on individual chapter 11 cases, and as co-chair of ABI’s Consumer Bankruptcy Committee and Commercial Fraud Committee. In addition, he is co-author and editor-in-chief of ABI’s Commercial Fraud Manual and a contributing author to Bloomberg Law: Bankruptcy Treatise. Leibowitz is Board Certified in both Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification. He has been recognized as a Super Lawyer for many years and is rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell.

An ABI member since 2017, Shaw is a California State Bar Certified Specialist in Bankruptcy Law and the managing attorney at Shaw & Hanover, PC, a bankruptcy boutique law firm serving Southern California. She represents debtors, creditors and trustees in chapter 7, 11, 12 and 13 bankruptcy proceedings, and enjoys litigating matters before the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts in the Central District of California. Shaw is an active member of her local bankruptcy bar and has served as a professor of bankruptcy law at the California Desert Trial Academy (CDTA). She also was a member of ABI’s inaugural class of the top “40 Under 40” insolvency professionals in 2017.

In addition, ABI honored Jay Jump with a special Appreciation Award in acknowledgement of his significant contributions to the CPEX program. Jump is the founding principal of The Jump Law Group, a consumer bankruptcy firm, as well as the CEO of CertificateofService.com, a mailing and notice service for bankruptcy professionals around the nation. Jump has been a frequent speaker at various bankruptcy conferences, has written several articles regarding law office automation and technology application, and helps bankruptcy practitioners connect with partners who can bring their practices to a higher level of productivity.

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ABI is the largest multi-disciplinary, nonpartisan organization dedicated to research and education on matters related to insolvency. ABI was founded in 1982 to provide Congress and the public with unbiased analysis of bankruptcy issues. The ABI membership includes nearly 10,000 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals, providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information. For additional information on ABI, visit www.abiworld.org. For additional conference information, visit http://www.abiworld.org/conferences.html.