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Overview

Overview

Kimberly Ross Clayson is an attorney in our Insolvency & Reorganization practice group.  She serves a diverse client portfolio in the areas of insolvency law, creditors’ rights, business law and health law. She provides counsel to operating businesses as well as to creditors of financially distressed businesses and individuals. Kim has extensive experience restructuring business debtors and representing Chapter 7 trustees in fraud investigations and bankruptcy litigation.  She was appointed and presently serves as one of only five Subchapter V Trustees in the Eastern District of Michigan under the Small business Reorganization Act of 2019.

Education & Admissions

Education & Admissions

Education

  • University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
    J.D.
    2004 Book Award for Excellence in Legal Writing and Research
    Member, Moot Court Board of Advocates
  • Michigan State University – James Madison College
    B.A. International Relations 

Bar Admission

  • Michigan

 

Affiliations

Affiliations

Outlier Media

  • Board Member | 2022 – Current

Economic Development Corporation of the City of Detroit

  • Board Member | 2014 – Current

University of Detroit Mercy School of Law

  • Adjunct Professor, Secured Transactions | Fall 2019 and Fall 2021

National Association for Bankruptcy Trustees

  • Subchapter V Trustee Executive Committee 2021 – Current
  • Subchapter V Trustee Journal Committee 2021 – Current

State of Michigan Attorney Discipline Board

  • Hearing Panelist | 2019 – Current

Hon. Steven W. Rhodes Detroit Consumer Bankruptcy Conference

  • Advisory Board Member | 2018 – 2021

Detroit Waldorf School

  • Board Member – 2010-2016; Treasurer – 2012-2014

The Villages of Detroit Community Development Corporation

  • Board Member – 2007-2012; President – 2008-2011

 

News

News

Publications

National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees Journal

  • Author | “Subchapter V Case Law Update” | Summer 2021 Issue

Institute for Continuing Legal Education

  • Author | Chapter 15 “Bankruptcy Adversary Proceedings” of Michigan Causes of Action Formbook (Kaitlin A. Brown et al eds, ICLE, Feb. 2020)

Hon. Stephen W. Rhodes Detroit Consumer Bankruptcy Conference

  • Panelist & Author | “Prosecuting & Defending §523 Adversary Proceedings” | 2018
  • Panelist & Author | “Chapter 11 Basics for Attorneys” | 2017
  • Panelist & Author | “Mortgage Issues” | 2014
  • Panelist & Author | “Chapter 11 Bankruptcy A ‘How To’ Guide” | 2011
  • Author | “Assets Wanted: Chapter 7 Trustee Panel” | 2010

Speaking Engagements

Decision Health Advanced Specialty Coding Compliance & Reimbursement Symposium, Pain & Anesthesia Track 2021:

    • Speaker | “Anti-Kickback/Stark Physician Self-Referral Update: Are the New Rules Good News for Your Practice?”
    • Speaker | “Privacy and Security Update: Keep Up With the Growing Risk for Your Practice.”

Decision Health Billing & Compliance Summit 2021

      • Speaker | “Privacy and Security Update: Keep Up With the Growing Risk for Your Practice.”

Hon. Stephen W. Rhodes Detroit Consumer Bankruptcy Conference

      • Panelist & Author | “Subchapter V Case Law Update” | 2021
      • Panelist & Author | “Dealing with Co-Owners of Bankruptcy Estate Property” | 2019
      • Panelist & Author | “Prosecuting & Defending §523 Adversary Proceedings” | 2018
      • Panelist & Author | “Chapter 11 Basics for Attorneys” | 2017
      • Panelist & Author | “Mortgage Issues” | 2014
      • Panelist & Author | “Chapter 11 Bankruptcy A ‘How To’ Guide” | 2011
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Strafford Publications, Inc.

      • Webinar Presenter | “Section 523 Exceptions to Discharge Adversary Proceedings” | 2019

Lawrence Technical University Detroit Center for Design + Technology

      • Presenter | “Defining Your Exit Strategy” | 2018

Techstars Startup Week Detroit 2018

      • Panelist | “Fuel for Growth: Collaboration Over Competition”
      • Panelist | “Can You AI Your Professionals Out of a Job?”
      • Panelist | “Getting Beyond ‘No’: Why your Business Idea Isn’t Getting Funded”

University of Michigan’s Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Entrepreneurship through Empowerment Program 2014

      • Presenter | “The Art of Negotiation”

Michigan State University Turkish Resource Center of North America US-Turkey Creative Economies Business Summit, Istanbul, Turkey

      • Speaker | “Bankruptcy of Detroit & Doing Business in the Region” | 2013

Open City Detroit

    • Speaker | “Legal Planning for Small Businesses” | 2010