Holland & Hart LLP announced that Mona Lyman Burton of the firm’s Salt Lake City, Utah, office will be inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy on March 12, 2010, in the Great Hall of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
Burton is one of 35 nominees from the United States and abroad being inducted in the Twenty-First Class (2010) of College Fellows. All are being honored and recognized for their professional excellence and exceptional contributions to the fields of bankruptcy and insolvency.
Burton joins Holland & Hart partners Jack L. Smith, Denver; and Larry E. Prince, Boise; as well as retired partner Ronald M. Martin, Colorado Springs; in the College. Ms. Burton will be one of only 15 College Fellows in the state of Utah.
The American College of Bankruptcy is an honorary professional and educational association of bankruptcy and insolvency professionals. The College plays an important role in sustaining professional excellence. College Fellows include commercial and consumer bankruptcy attorneys, insolvency accountants, turnaround and workout specialists, law professors, judges, government officials and others involved in the bankruptcy and insolvency community.
Nominees are extended an invitation to join based on a record of achievement reflecting the highest standards of professionalism. The College now has 734 Fellows, each selected by a Board of Regents from among recommendations of the Circuit Admissions Council in each federal judicial circuit and specially appointed Committees for Judicial and Foreign Fellows.
Criteria for selection include: the highest standard of professionalism, ethics, character, integrity, professional expertise and leadership contributing to the enhancement of bankruptcy and insolvency law and practice; sustained evidence of scholarship, teaching, lecturing or writing on bankruptcy or insolvency; and a commitment to elevate knowledge and understanding of the profession and public respect for the practice.
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