Leslie "Les" Horowitz is a principal attorney in the firm’s Commercial Litigation and Creditors’ Rights, Reorganization and Bankruptcy Practice Groups. He counsels clients in a variety of commercial and bankruptcy matters. His clients include corporations of all sizes across a range of industries. Les has extensive experience representing debtors and creditors in Bankruptcy Court, District Court and State Court, including prejudgment and post-judgment remedies. He regularly represents parties in assignments for the benefit of creditors and receiverships, prejudgment remedies and the enforcement of judgments. His experience also includes work related to secured transactions.
Les is a former member on the National Council of the Federal Bar Association. He has been an active member since 1990, serving as secretary, vice-president, president-elect and president of the Los Angeles chapter. He previously served as chairperson of the Bankruptcy Section. Les is currently a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, Financial Lawyers Conference and California Bankruptcy Forum.
Les has co-authored several articles on bankruptcy and commercial law. He is an update author for the CEB treatise entitled Debt Collection Practice in California. He has also lectured at the Los Angeles Bar Association about evidence, insolvency, provisional remedies and the enforcement of judgments and assignments for the benefit of creditors.
Representative Matters
- Southwestern Law School (J.D.)
- Occidental College (A.B.)
- Political Science
- California
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Federal Bar Association, since 1990, Member
- Los Angeles Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, Secretary, Vice President, President-Elect, President
- Executive Committee of the Remedies Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Chair
- Executive Committee of the Remedies Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Board Member
- American Bankruptcy Institute, Member
- Financial Lawyers Conference, Member
- California Bankruptcy Forum, Member
- Board of Directors, Federal Bar Building Corporation, Former Member
- National Council of the Federal Bar Association, Former Member
- Selected to Southern California Super Lawyers® for Bankruptcy (2014 - 2023)
- Martindale AV Preeminent Peer Rated
