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Randy
Nussbaum

  • Senior Member

Biography

For more than four decades, Randy Nussbaum has assisted individuals and businesses with complex bankruptcy protection (debtor and creditor), transaction, and litigation matters. He especially enjoys helping his clients achieve their business and financial objectives using innovative legal strategies.

Randy is a Certified Bankruptcy Specialist (Arizona Board of Legal Specialization) and a Certified Business Bankruptcy Specialist (American Board of Certification) and a Certified Business Bankruptcy Specialist (American Board of Certification) and has represented secured and unsecured creditors, surety companies, creditor committees, lessors, professional athletes, doctors, attorneys, and trustees in Chapter 7, 11, and 13 proceedings, including adversary actions (bankruptcy litigation). The cases have involved such diverse matters as real estate, construction, manufacturing, trucking, asset-based lending, bankruptcy-related to divorce, and high-value, complex individual bankruptcies.

Randy’s peers have honored him with multiple peer rankings for his professional, civic, and charitable achievements. Randy has been named to Super Lawyers’“ Top 50 Arizona” list of attorneys multiple times and has been selected three times by The Best Lawyers in America® Best Lawyer of the Year.

Committed to community service, Randy is a 1990 graduate of Scottsdale Leadership. He has volunteered for that organization for more than 30 years, serves on its Advisory Board, and is a recipient of the prestigious Frank W. Hodges Alumni Achievement Award. Randy serves on the advisory boards for the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale Historical Society, and Scottsdale Community College. He served as a Sterling Awards Jurist, Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce, and received the Chamber’s 2017 Volunteer of the Year Award. Recognized for his life-long commitment to community service, in 2018 Randy joined the distinguished roster of honorees inducted into the Scottsdale History Hall of Fame.

Education

  • Arizona State University, College of Law, Tempe, Arizona
    • J.D.
  • Arizona State University, Arizona
    • B.A.
    • Honors: cum laude

Bar Admissions

  • Arizona
  • U.S. District Court District of Arizona
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit

Honors

Professional Associations

  • American Board of Certification, President – Elect, 2023
  • American Bankruptcy Institute, Co-Chair, Southwest Bankruptcy Conference, 2013 to 2017
  • State Bar of Arizona: Bankruptcy Section, Construction Law Section, Real Property Section
  • Maricopa County Bar Association
  • Scottsdale Bar Association
  • Turnaround Management Association

Certified Legal Specialties

  • Certified Specialist, Business Bankruptcy Law, American Board of Certification, 2005
  • Certified Specialist, Bankruptcy Law, Arizona Board of Legal Specialization, 1997

Community Leadership