Neil W. Bason

Appointed as a judge to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California, by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 2011; special counsel, Duane Morris LLP, San Francisco and Los Angeles, 2009-11; special counsel, Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin P.C., San Francisco, 2008-09; law clerk to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali, Northern District of California, San Francisco, 2000-08; associate, Hovis, Smith, Stewart, Lipscomb & Cross LLP, San Francisco, 1992-00; associate, Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge, Boston, 1989-92; law clerk to Chief Justice Paul J. Liacos, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Boston, 1988-89