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Judges and Judiciary

Apr. 19, 2011

Bankruptcy Judge to Be Sworn In

William J. Lafferty, a partner at Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, will be sworn in April 20 as a judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District.


By John Roemer


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - William J. Lafferty, a partner at Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin PC, will be sworn in Wednesday as a judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District. He will keep chambers in Oakland.


Lafferty, 57, will fill a judgeship left vacant by the Jan. 1 retirement of former Chief Bankruptcy Judge Randall Newsome, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced.

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