
Career Highlights: Appointed to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 2011, retired March 2022; attorney, Stutman, Treister & Glatt Professional Corporation, 1991-2011; attorney, Meyer Hendricks Victor Osborn & Maledon, 1979-91; law clerk, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, 1977-79
Law School: Columbia University School of Law
A few years ago, attorney Alan J. Friedman proposed a debtor-in-possession loan for Freedom Communications — then the bankrupt owner of the Orange County Register and the Riverside Press-Enterprise — to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Mark S. Wallace.
When such proposals are made to the court, said Friedman, a partner at Shulman Hodges & Bastian LLP, other parties might object to the terms. But at this particular hearing, one a... (continued)