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Oct. 26, 2008

The Meltdown Medic

When Pacific Gas and Brobeck collapsed, Judge Dennis J. Montali had the daunting duty of patching up their finances.

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The Meltdown Medic

Dennis Montali

U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of California
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By Amelia Hansen
Daily Journal Staff Writer

One April morning in 2001, Neil Bason ran into an attorney from the U.S. Trustee's Office who showed him a recently filed bankruptcy petition.

Bason, a law clerk for U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali, went straight to Montali's chambers.

"The judge said, 'You're pale as a sheet. What's up?'" Bason recalled. Bason told him about the petition. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. had just filed for C... (continued)

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