James Patrick Shea is the managing partner of Shea & Carlyon, Ltd. in Las Vegas, where he focuses on creditors’ rights, insolvency and reorganization. He has represented a number of hotel casinos and airlines, as well as numerous financial institutions. A frequent author and lecturer, he is a member of ABI’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee and is ABI’s Vice President-Interactive Media and Technology, the founding chair of ABI’s former subcommittee on Gaming Insolvencies and Reorganizations and a past program chair of ABI’s Southwest Bankruptcy Conference. Mr. Shea is also former chairman of the State Bar of Nevada’s Bankruptcy Law Section and has served as chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Southern Nevada Association of Bankruptcy Attorneys. He is AV-rated by Martindale Hubbell and is named in The Best Lawyers in America, The Best Lawyers in Nevada and Nevada Super Lawyers. Mr. Shea is a graduate of the University of Arizona and the University of Arizona College of Law, where he was the chair of the Moot Court Board and the recipient of the Mitchell C. Nelson Award for legal scholarship.