Meredith C. Burns

As an attorney in the Firm’s Litigation Department, Meredith Burns represents clients in the areas of commercial litigation, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights. Her commercial litigation practice focuses on business disputes, financial workouts, collections, and foreclosures. She also represents municipalities and corporations in property tax appeals.

Meredith’s bankruptcy practice includes representing creditors’ committees, trustees and liquidating custodians in reorganization proceedings. In addition, she represents lenders in liquidation, reorganization, workout, fraudulent transfer, preference and mortgage-related actions. Meredith has successfully prosecuted and defended cases involving preferential transfers, lien avoidance and dischargeability of debt. She practices in state and federal courts in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Meredith presented a seminar for the National Business Institute entitled, “Collection Law from Start to Finish.” She is also the Secretary of the Connecticut chapter of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation.

Meredith received a Bachelor of Arts in English, magna cum laude, from the University of New Hampshire and a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School with a concentration in international law. Meredith studied comparative commercial law at the University of Lund, in Lund, Sweden and served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Judith Fabricant, Associate Justice, Massachusetts Superior Court.

• Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights
• Business Litigation
• Community Banking
• Education
• Litigation
• Privacy and Cybersecurity

• American Bar Association
• Connecticut Bar Association, Executive Committee, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section
• Massachusetts Bar Association
• Hartford County Bar Association
• International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, Secretary
• Phi Delta Phi, International Legal Fraternity
• International Council of Shopping Centers
• Oliver Ellsworth Inn of Court

• The Junior League of Hartford, Public Relations Committee Co-Chair 2009-2011

• August 31, 2015 - Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights News: 2nd Circuit Rules Not All Liens Pass Through Bankruptcy Unaffected

• January 12, 2017 - CommunityBankingInsights.com: Ninth Circuit Holds Debtor Must Pay Default Interest Rate in Order to Cure Under Bankruptcy Plan
• August 12, 2016 - CommunityBankingInsights.com: Amendment to Connecticut's Foreclosure By Market Sale Statute
• May 31, 2016 - CommunityBankingInsights.com: Objecting to the Dischargeability of Debt: How a Creditor May Protect its Debt in Bankruptcy
• April 7, 2016 - CommunityBankingInsights.com: State Statutes Requiring MERS To Pay Higher Recording Fees Declared Constitutional

• May 18, 2016 - David Menard, Anthony Gangemi and Meredith Burns to present at UConn iQ InQbator Workshop #2 in Storrs, CT
• 2014 - Meredith C. Burns presented "Annual Update of Commercial Law" at the 2014 Connecticut Law Conference

• Massachusetts
• U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
• Connecticut
• U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut

• Suffolk University Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2005)
• University of New Hampshire (B.A., magna cum laude, 1997)