William McGrane

Telephone: 415.766.3590

Practice Areas: Bankruptcy Litigation;Business Litigation; Legal Malpractice Litigation; Real Estate Litigation; Securities Litigation.

Admitted: 1973, California.

Law School: Berkeley Law (Boalt Hall), J.D., 1973.

College: Fordham University, B.A., 1970.

Memberships: State Bar of California.

Advisory Board of ConsumerBankruptcyCounseling.info,
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Awards: Norcal Superlawyer for Bankruptcy Litigation and
Business Litigation 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.

Selected Publications: A Creditor Strategy to Preempt SDNY Venue, ABI Journal, June 2011.

The Erroneous Application of the Defense of In Pari Delicto to Bankruptcy Trustees, California Bankruptcy Journal, Spring 2007.

Lis Pendens: Still a Lawyer's Liability, Association of Business Trial Lawyers Report, Spring 2004.

Securitization of First Party Security as a Section 502(b)(6) Avoidance Device, The Banking Law Journal, June 2004.

Born: Brooklyn, New York, July 21, 1947.

Bio: Bill McGrane has been practicing law in San Francisco, California, since he was admitted to the bar in December 1973. He has successfully tried commercial cases involving as much as several hundreds of millions of dollars to civil juries, civil judges sitting without juries, arbitration panels, as well as bankruptcy courts. These cases have encompassed virtually every aspect of civil litigation, including contract disputes, corporate governance disputes, partnership disputes, securities disputes, intellectual property disputes, real estate disputes, professional malpractice disputes, and bankruptcy-related disputes of all kinds.

After serving an apprenticeship first with one of the largest San Francisco firms and then with a litigation boutique, Bill has been a partner in law firms owned or managed by himself since 1979.