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Tara LeDay

Tara LeDay is a litigator with a focus on restructuring, creditors’ rights, collections, and bankruptcy. She has a nationwide practice and represents bankruptcy trustees, creditors, and corporate and high net-worth debtors. Ms. LeDay is passionate about the rights of her clients and works tirelessly to protect those rights.

Ms. LeDay counsels taxing authorities, government entities, energy companies, and real estate developers. She regularly represents creditors in high-profile bankruptcy matters, including first-day cash collateral disputes, plan negotiations, utility motions and adequate protection issues, defending creditors contract rights during the sales process, protecting clients facing assumption or rejection of leases in bankruptcy, defending preference actions, asserting reclamation claims, 503(b)(9), administrative, and routines claims, including defending objections, and representing other creditors who are simply trying to understand the bankruptcy process.

Ms. LeDay graduated with a B.B.A. from Southwestern University and received her law degree from Baylor Law School in 2017. Since that time, Ms. LeDay has practiced in Bankruptcy Courts in every jurisdiction other than Alaska and Hawaii.

While her practice involves all types of businesses, she has particular interest and experience in creditors’ rights. This includes representing creditors in some of the largest real estate, retail, and oil and gas bankruptcies filed across the Country.

Professional Affiliations

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EDUCATION

Southwestern University, B.A.; Sociology, 2014

Baylor Law School, J.D., 2017

HONORS

"Top Lawyer," Houstonia Magazine, 2022

BAR ADMISSIONS

Texas

COURT ADMISSIONS

Bankruptcy courts: Alabama Northern, Arkansas-Eastern and Western, Arizona, Central California, District of Delaware, Florida Middle, Georgia Northern, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana-Middle/Western/Eastern, Missouri Eastern/Western, North Carolina Eastern, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York Southern, Nevada, Texas Northern/Eastern/Western/Southern, Oklahoma Western/Northern, Puerto Rico, Utah, Virginia.

District Courts: TX-Western/Northern/Eastern/Southern

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Diane Butler

Diane Butler was born in raised in the Los Angeles community to a honest, hard working mother and father. She developed a passion for helping people at an early age, and continued to enhance this passion as she grew older. Diane was especially inspired to pursue law when her oldest sister passed away due to faulty city property, and she witnessed the great injustices of her family receiving unfair compensation from the city. Diane vowed from this day to go to law school to fight for the People.

After many years as a paralegal, Diane Butler went on to not only attend People’s College of Law but she graduated among the top of her class! Even though it was a struggle to pass the bar while also being a single mother raising a son, she enjoyed every moment of it. This passion paid off when she passed the Bar exam and was admitted to practice law in California in 2006.

Attorney Diane Butler is especially proficient at those areas of law involving estate planning, bankruptcy, debt reorganization, and personal injury. Don’t hesitate to call her for any issues you may be facing. You will not regret it!.

Re'Necia Sherald

Re’Necia Sherald is an associate in the Restructuring Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s Houston office. Her practice focuses on all areas of restructuring, including in- and out-of- court workouts, bankruptcy litigation, counterparty insolvency and risk management, distressed M&A, lender representation, creditor representation, and Chapter 11 debtor representation. Re’Necia also has experience of representations in Chapter 11 Subchapter V bankruptcy cases.

Re'Necia’s restructuring experience includes representation of debtors and creditors in a variety of industries including aerospace, agriculture, cryptocurrency, mass toxic tort, oil and gas and retail.

Prior to joining Haynes Boone, Re’Necia clerked for United States Bankruptcy Judge Christopher M. López in the Southern District of Texas.

Chloe Bootstaylor

Chloe C. Bootstaylor works on complex litigation matters. Chloe handles all phases of these cases, and her work includes drafting motions, briefs and other filings; managing discovery review and production; preparing for fact and expert witness depositions and testimony; and serving as a member of trial and appellate teams.

Chloe previously worked as an associate with the complex litigation practice of a global firm headquartered in New York City, before leaving private practice to clerk for the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. Prior to joining the firm, Chloe worked as an associate with a premier Washington, DC, litigation firm in its public client practice. During law school, Chloe provided pro bono legal services through Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem and The Legal Aid Society of New York, and participated in the Challenging the Consequences of Mass Incarceration Clinic at Columbia Law School.

Amiri Lampley

Amiri Lampley is a litigation associate in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She has broad experience representing clients in complex commercial litigation, employment & labor disputes and internal investigations. Amiri has extensive experience in all phases of litigation, including pleadings, fact and expert discovery, trial preparation, pretrial and post-trial motions. She has represented both private and public companies across various industries, including pharmaceutical, healthcare, aviation, retail and the cosmetics industry. Amiri also has experience in high-stakes bankruptcy and restructuring litigation.

In the legal advisory context, Amiri has advised corporations on an array of regulatory and compliance matters under federal, state and international standards within the energy, cosmetics and healthcare sector.

Amiri also actively participates in Firm committees, diversity initiatives and recruiting efforts.

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