David S. Rubin, Attorney at Butler Snow Law Firm

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David is a member of Butler Snow’s business department and practices within the Finance, Real Estate and Restructuring Group.

LSU Law Center, teaching an upper level seminar on Chapter 11 reorganizations, 1989-2011
- Adjunct Professor
Century Club of the Baton Rouge Bar Foundation
- Member
Congregation B’nai Israel of Baton Rouge
- Former President
Greater Baton Rouge Jewish Federation
- Former Board Member

Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy
Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law, American Bankruptcy Board of Certification and the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization
American Bankruptcy Institute, Member
Appointed mediator and special master by state and federal courts
Expert witness testimony in bankruptcy and attorney fee dispute matters
American Bar Association House of Delegates, 1986-1997
Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business
- Bankruptcy/Restructuring – Louisiana, 2010-2021
Super Lawyers®
- Louisiana Super Lawyers, Creditor Debtor Rights, 2007-2022

Martindale-Hubbell®
- AV^® – Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated
Lawdragon 500
- Leading U.S. Bankruptcy and Restructuring Lawyer, 2020
Best Lawyers in America®
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 1987-2022

Louisiana State University, J.D., 1978
- Order of the Coif
- Omicron Delta Kappa
- Phi Kappa Phi
- Louisiana Law Review, Associate Editor
Louisiana State University, B.S., 1974

Appointed Chapter 11 Trustee by U.S. Trustee
Bankruptcy and Restructuring cases
- Cajun Electric Power Cooperative (W.D. La.)
- Entergy New Orleans, Inc. (E.D. La.)
- Hollywood Casino, Inc. (W.D. La.)
- Grand Palais and Crescent City Riverboat Casinos (E.D. La.)
- United Companies Financial Corporation (D. Del.)
- Borden Chemicals Co. (D. Del.)
- Continental Airlines, Inc. (S.D. Tx.)
- Exco Refining, Inc. (N.D. Tx.)
- Rooster Energy, LLC (W.D. La.)
- Pilgrims Pride Corp. (N.D. Tx.
- Good Hope Refinery (W.D. Ma.)
- Bruno’s Supermarkets (S.D. Al.)
- Orion Refining Corp. (D. Del.)
David has represented banks and lenders in a wide variety of matters, including loan disputes, collections, seizures, injunctive relief, shareholder oppression actions, and defensive actions

Spoken at or chaired seminars since 1979 on bankruptcy, commercial, and technology law (and including topics on professionalism and ethics) and related matters sponsored by bar associations, honorary law membership organizations, law schools, civic and business groups, banks, governmental entities and associations, and private groups