Leslie Stein

Partner

Plunkett Cooney

Licensed Since: 1980
Joined Firm: 2009
Partner Since: 2009

38505 Woodward Ave.
Suite 2000
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304

TEL: (248) 594-8220
FAX: (248) 901-4040

Nominated as a Michigan Super Lawyer in the area of bankruptcy/creditors' rights by Super Lawyers Magazine since 2006, Ms. Stein represents clients in the commercial and real estate lending arenas. Prior to joining the firm, she managed the bankruptcy/workout and commercial litigation functions for a national financial institution.

A frequent lecturer and author on bankruptcy law, Ms. Stein is a member of the State of Michigan and the American, Federal and Detroit Metropolitan bar associations. She is also a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan, where she served as a past Director at Large and Treasurer.

Representative Client Work

• Represented national and community banks in numerous loan workout, deed in lieu and foreclosure situations involving apartment buildings, and manufacturing businesses partially built subdivisions and condominium developments
• Represented tier two auto suppliers and obtained complete and early payment of pre-petition debt in several tier one supplier bankruptcies
• Represented privately held multinational business in the negotiation and documentation of $300 million syndicated line of credit
• Represented tier two suppliers in the GM and Chrysler bankruptcy cases, obtaining early payment of pre-petition debt and continuing supply contracts for clients
• Represented a bank in a workout matter involving defaults on an existing $18 million construction loan, transitioning to a loan to an operating senior living community with multiple levels of care (independent senior living, assisted living, nursing home and hospice care at a single site)
• Successfully negotiated resolution of multiple, complex construction lien foreclosure actions on behalf of banks and other mortgage lenders
• Successfully negotiated dismissal and favorable settlements of preference lawsuits for secured and unsecured creditors (landlords, attorneys, automotive suppliers, banks, private lenders) in regional and national bankruptcy cases
• Represented national and community banks in credit exits leading to payment in full
• Discovered frauds by two borrowers leading to indictment and conviction of one of the borrowers and an ongoing FBI investigation of the other
  

Professional Affiliations

• Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association (Member, Creditor-Debtor Law Committee, 1983-present)
• State Bar of Michigan (Member, Corporation, Finance and Business Law Section)
• Federal Bar Association (Member, Detroit Chapter, Bankruptcy Section, 1982-present)
• American Bar Association
• Women Lawyers Association of Michigan (Director at Large, 1987-1988; Treasurer, 1984-1985)
• American Bankruptcy Institute
  

Public Service

• Commercial Law League of America, Member (1982-1988)
  

Academic Positions

• Teaching Assistant, Civil Procedure, Wayne State University (1978-1980)
  

Articles and Lectures

• "The Bankruptcy Amendments and Federal Judgeship Act of 1984," co-author, 63 Michigan Bar Journal 775, 1984
• "Bankruptcy and the Small Business Creditor," author, 37 The Michigan C.P.A. 39, Summer 1985
• "Amendment of Section 105 Grants Judges Sua Sponte Powers - Does It Constitute Judicial Carte Blanche?" VI American Bankruptcy Institute Newsletter 7, March 1987
• "Cost Effective Delivery of Legal Services," speaker, State Bar of Michigan Annual Meeting, 1992
• "Lender Liability: A Practical Approach" Financial Institutions Update; speaker; Institute for Continuing Legal Education; 1992; Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Multiple in-house seminars for Comerica Bank; co-authored written materials, including programs on lender liability, frequent documentation exceptions, Article 9 fundamentals, introduction to Chapter 11, fraudulent conveyance, Attorney-Client privilege
  

News

• Plunkett Cooney attorneys among Michigan 'Super Lawyers' 2010
• Plunkett Cooney banks on Stein as firm’s newest partner

Areas of Practice
Banking, Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights Law

Honors & Awards
Martindale-Hubbell’s highest rating-AV. AV is a registered certification mark of Reed Elsevier Properties, Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.
Michigan Super Lawyer in Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights; Michigan Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters publication, 2006 - 2010
Wayne Law Review, Member, 1978-1979

Education
Wayne State University Law School, summa cum laude, J.D., 1980
Oakland University, with honors, B.A., 1976

Bar & Court Admissions
Michigan, 1980