Joseph S.U. Bodoff is the founder of Bodoff & Associates.  His practice focuses on bankruptcy, creditors’ rights and commercial litigation.  He has appeared in state and federal courts throughout the country, including all of the New England states, Alabama, California, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington, handling matters as diverse as complex Chapter 11 reorganizations to corporate governance issues, construction litigation and unfair trade practice claims.

Mr. Bodoff is board-certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification and is active in a number of organizations, including the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the American Bar Association as well as the American Bankruptcy Institute, where he has served on its Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He is a frequent lecturer before trade and professional groups and is author of a number of articles on bankruptcy issues. Among his activities, he spearheaded a project to produce the ABI Creditors’ Committee Manual, of which over 40,000 copies have been distributed. Under his leadership, the ABI completed a two-year project studying the Bankruptcy Code’s preference provisions. He testified on the subject of bankruptcy preferences before the National Bankruptcy Review Commission established by Congress to overhaul the bankruptcy laws. Three of the recommendations resulting from the ABI study that he headed up were included in the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.

Mr. Bodoff is a 1977 graduate of Villanova University School of Law, where he served as an editor on its Law Review. His work experience includes service as a judicial law clerk in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas and as a partner in three large Boston law firms. He has received a number of awards, including listing in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in American Law. He has been repeatedly named as one of Massachusetts’s Super Lawyers.