Areas of Practice:

• Bankruptcy
• Chapter 11 Reorganization
• Creditor & Debtor Rights
• Litigation
• Appellate
• Real Property
• Finance & Real Estate
• Sales & Foreclosure

Recent Publications:

• California Debt Collection and Enforcement of Judgments, Goldsmith, McCarthy, Milde & Vaage, Matthew Bender Practice Guide, 2010 
• McCarthy, The Shackles of an Individual Chapter 11 Debtor's Servitude—Where’s the Key?, Vol. 30 California Bankruptcy Journal, No. 2 (2009) 
• Avoiding the Bankruptcy Code’s Ratable Distribution Scheme, Los Angeles Lawyer, June 2004

Reported Cases
Tokai Bank v. Old Town Historic Building Limited Partnership (In re Old Town Historic Building, Ltd.), 79 B.R. 8 (Bankr. C.D. Cal. 1987); Imperial Bank v. Pillsbury (In re Howes), 89 B.R. 77 (9th Cir. BAP 1988); In re Laguna Hills Financial Associates, 93 B.R. 224 (Bankr. C.D. Cal. 1988); Teamsters Industrial Security Fund v. World Sales, Inc. (In re World Sales, Inc.), 183 B.R. 872 (9th Cir. BAP 1995); Biggs v. Smith Barney, Inc. (In re David), 193 B.R. 935 (Bankr. C.D. Cal. 1996); Levander v. Prober (In re Levander), 180 F.3d 1114 (9th Cir. 1999); Jerry’s Famous Deli, Inc. v. Papanicolaou, 383 F.3d 998 (9th Cir. 2004); In re Continental Coin Corporation, 380 B.R. 1 (Bankr. C.D. Cal. 2007).