Monique Jewett-Brewster is Chair of the Financial Institutions and Creditors Rights Practice Group and a member of Hopkins & Carley’s Litigation Department in the San Jose office. Monique has over twenty years of experience advising creditor clients in every aspect of insolvency law, including without limitation, in the workout, restructuring and enforcement of commercial loans and in business bankruptcy cases nationwide. Her clients include:
She also counsels the City of Oakland in its bankruptcy matters.
Monique is only one of 14 attorneys in the United States, Canada and Mexico to have been selected for and inducted into the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers (“ACCFL”)’s 2023 class of Fellows. The ACCFL Fellows are practicing lawyers, jurists and academics licensed to practice law who have maintained excellent character, achieved preeminence in the field, and made substantial and sustained contributions to the promotion of learning and scholarship in commercial finance law through teaching, lecturing, published writings or continuing legal education.
Monique is honored to have served as the 2018-19 Chair of the Business Law Section of the California Lawyers Association (CLA), the largest statewide voluntary bar association in the country. An insolvency lawyer for the entirety of her law career, Monique also formerly served as Co-Chair, Publications Chair and E-Bulletin Editor in Chief of the Insolvency Law Committee (ILC) of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California.
Monique is also a former attorney member of the prestigious Bench Bar Liaison Committee of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, and director of the Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum.
After completing two externships with former bankruptcy judge Kathleen P. March, Esq., the Hon. Alan M. Ahart (ret.) and the Hon. Ellen Carroll (ret.) during her studies at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Monique completed a two-year post-graduate clerkship with the Hon. Meredith A. Jury, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California (ret.). Monique is also a 2012 recipient of the Hon. Cornelius Blackshear Presidential Fellowship presented by the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges.
Monique is passionate about increasing diversity, equity and inclusion in the legal profession. In 2020-21, Monique served as the inaugural Chair of the CLA’s Diversity Outreach Committee, which works to increase diversity in the student pathways to careers in the legal field. Monique also served on the Board of the Black Women Lawyers of Northern California, and is a past member of the California Minority Counsel Program (CMCP)’s Ambassadors Council, which works to expand CMCP’s outreach and promote the advancement of business attorneys of color.
With a love of sharing knowledge, Monique has presented on the subjects of commercial finance and business bankruptcy for the State Bar of California (later CLA)’s Business Law Section; Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB); California Bankruptcy Forum; Bar Association of San Francisco; Alameda County Bar Association; California Minority Counsel Program; California Bankers Association; Western Bankers Association; and Tennessee Bar Association, among other organizations.
Monique is also a prolific author, having served as a contributing author to Westlaw’s Commercial Finance Newsletter as a member of the CLA Business Law Section’s ad hoc authors committee, and authored a chapter on the impact of bankruptcy on real property title and sales included in CEB’s Real Property Ownership and Taxation practice guide. Monique also has drafted several legal development alerts of value to her commercial creditor clientele.
Finally, Monique was instrumental to the launch of Hopkins & Carley’s Bankruptcy Bytes and Money Matters video series in 2020, both of which designed to introduce commercial creditors to complicated legal concepts related to their ability to recover defaulted debt. As of the close of 2022, these creditors' rights video series have been viewed over 70,000 times.
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