Johnson Legal Group, LLC

AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE

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140 S. Dearborn Street, Suite 1510, Chicago, Illinois 60603 Phone 312-345-1306 Fax 312-345-1308


Managing Member	Associate Attorney

Cindy M. Johnson – Managing Member (Email)

ADMITTED:

1988, Illinois

1989, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; 1995, U.S. Supreme Court

EDUCATION:

University of Chicago (B.A., with honors, 1985)

Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D. 1988)

BAR ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS:

Illinois State Bar Association

Member (2004-present)

Assembly (2013-present)

Commercial, Collections, Banking and Bankruptcy Section

	Member (2008-present)
	Social and Networking Chair (2016-2017)
	Section Counsel Chair (2015-2016)
	Vice Chair (2014-2015)
	Secretary (2013-2014)
	CLE Chair (2010-2013)
	CLE, Coordinator (2008-2010)

Illinois Creditors Bar Association

	Member (1998-present)
	President (2003-2005)
	Executive Vice-President (2002-2003)
	Secretary (1999-2000)
	Board Member (1999-present)
	Ad Hoc Appellate Committee Chair (2013-present)
	Administrative Committee Chair (2010-present)

American Bankruptcy Institute

Chicago Bar Association


	Member (1988-2000)
	Co-Chair of the Young Lawyers Section Collection Law
	Committee (1997-1998)
	Chair of the Young Lawyers Section Bankruptcy Committee
	(1994-1995)
	Vice Chair of the Young Lawyers Section Bankruptcy
	Committee (1993-1994)

REPORTED DECISIONS:

Logemann Holding Inc. v. Lieber, 341 Ill.App.3d 689, 793 N.E.2d 135

(1st Dist. 2003)

In re Dobek, 279 B.R. 496 (Bankr. N.D. Ill. 2002)

PUBLICATIONS:

"Creditors' Rights in Bankruptcy," chapter of Illinois Institute for

Continuing Legal Education Publication, Creditors Rights in Illinois, 2004,

2009 and 2014

"Why File Involuntary Bankruptcy?", Furniture Manufacturers Credit

Association Beacon, 2008

"A Creditor's Lawyers Guide to Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors,"

Illinois Bar Journal, December 1997

"Bankruptcy Practice: It's a Jungle Out There," Chicago Bar Association,

Record, February/March 1995

Co-Author: "Enforcement of Judgments," chapter of Illinois Institute for

Continuing Legal Education Publication, Creditors Rights in Illinois, 1995

LECTURES:

Lecture entitled “Depositions/Rule 2004 Exams” for the Illinois Creditors

Bar Association fall seminar, November 2016

Lecture entitled “Bankruptcy: How’s a Lawyer to Know when the Lawyer

Doesn’t Know Enough?”


	Decalogue Society of Lawyers luncheon seminar, March
	2015

	Chicago Bar Association New Lawyers’ seminar, April 2008

Lecture entitled “Post Judgment: Citation and Garnishment Defense” for

the Post Judgment Proceedings seminar, Chicago Bar Association

October 2015.

Lecture entitled "How to Monitor a 'Debtor in Possession' Situation Within

a Citation Proceeding and Avoid Bankruptcy” for the

	Sophisticated Asset Recovery seminar, Illinois Institute of
	Continuing Legal Education, October 2014.

Lecture entitled "How to Monitor a 'Debtor in Possession' Situation Within

a Citation Proceeding and Avoid Bankruptcy”


	Sophisticated Asset Recovery seminar, Illinois
	Institute of Continuing Legal Education, October
	2014Co-Chair of the Young Lawyers Section Collection
	Law Committee (1997-1998)

Lecture entitled "Collecting and Protecting in Tough Economic Times"

	Annual Commercial Lending Law Seminar, Kane County
	Bar Association, November 2013

	Chicago Bar Association Corporate Law Departments
	Committee, luncheon seminar, April 2009

Lecture entitled "Creditor's Rights in Bankruptcy"

	Basic Enforcement of Judgment: Enforcement and
	Collection seminar, Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal
	Education, October 2015, February 2014, April 2013,
	January 2012, June 2010, March 2009, March 2008 and
	March 2007

	Annual Attorneys Conference for Attorneys Representing
	Financial Institutions, Illinois Credit Union League, October
	2006 and October 2004

Lecture entitled “Bankruptcy Primer: Changes and Developments in

Bankruptcy Law”

	How to Build and Protect Your Practice: Law, Legislation
	and Legal Writing seminar, Illinois Creditors Bar
	Association, November 2012

Lectures entitled “The Creditor's Perspective” and “Ethical Issues in

Bankruptcy”

	IICLE Practice Academy: Essentials of Consumer
	Bankruptcy seminar, Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal
	Education, October

	Co-Presenter for the Judgments and Enforcement webinar,
	Illinois State Bar Association, March 2012

Lecture entitled “Bankruptcy Perspective”

	Home Sweet Home: Preserving & Transferring the Primary
	Residence A Multi-Disciplinary, Client-Centered Practice
	Approach for Clients in Crisis seminar, Illinois Institute of
	Continuing Legal Education, February 2012

Lecture entitled “Creditor Issues in Consumer Bankruptcies”

	Hot Topics in Consumer Collection seminar, Illinois State
	Bar Association, September and October 2011

Lecture entitled “Adversary Complaints: Prosecution and Defense of

Section 523/ Section 727

	Bankruptcy Basics from the Experts seminar, Illinois State
	Bar Association, November 2010

	Panel Member for "List Serve Live" portion of the Collection
	Law Update seminar, Illinois Creditors Bar Association,
	March 2010

Lecture entitled "Bankruptcy's Effect of Foreclosures"

	Annual Attorneys Conference for Attorneys Representing
	Financial Institutions, Illinois Credit Union League, October
	2008

Lecture entitled "Automatic Stay"

	Consumer Bankruptcy seminar, Illinois Institute for
	Continuing Legal Education October 2009

	Annual Attorneys Conference for Attorneys Representing
	Financial Institutions, Illinois Credit Union League, October
	2007

Lecture entitled "Lien Avoidance, Reaffirmation & Redemption"

	Consumer Bankruptcy seminar, Illinois Institute for
	Continuing Legal Education, October 2007

	Annual Attorneys Conference for Attorneys Representing
	Financial Institutions, Illinois Credit Union League, October
	2007

	Panel Member for the Did Reality Meet the Hype of
	BAPCPA? Where Creditors in Bankruptcy Stand More than
	a Year after Implementation of the New Act seminar, Illinois
	Creditors Bar Association, January 2007

	Panel Member for "The Legal Issues" How the Courts Have
	Dealt With BAPCPA in Consumer Cases' at the Avoiding
	BAPCPA's Traps seminar, Chicago Bar Association,
	November 2006

Lecturer entitled "Bankruptcy Law/Collection Law" given at the Basic

Skills for the New Attorneys seminar, Chicago Bar Association, October

2006

	Panel member for the "Interpreting the Act's Ambiguities to
	Minimize Risks of Future Litigation" portion of the seminar
	entitled Creditor's Summit on Consumer Bankruptcy
	Reform, American Conference Institute, January 2006

Lecture entitled "Creditors' Issues"

	Bankruptcy Reform in Practice: The Lessons So Far
	seminar, Illinois State Bar Association mid-year meeting,
	Commercial Banking & Bankruptcy Law Section, December
	2005

Lecture entitled "Practical Tips for Basic Enforcement of Judgments"

	First Annual Solo & Small Firm Conference, Illinois State
	Bar Association, October 2005

	Panel member for the "Secured Claims Under The New Law
	- Treatment, Redemption, Reaffirmation and Stripdown"
	portion of the seminar entitled The New Bankruptcy Code
	and Rules: Anticipating and Solving Problems, joint program
	of the American Bankruptcy Institute, Chicago Bar
	Association, Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the Turnaround
	Management Association, Federal Bar Association-Chicago
	Chapter, and Seventh Circuit Bar Association, September
	2005

Lecture entitled "Collecting from a Defendant Who has Filed Bankruptcy"

Judgment Enforcement in Illinois Seminar, Lorman

Education Service, June & August 2003 and August 2002

Back to Basics: Bankruptcy Law Seminar, Illinois State

Bar Association, Annual Meeting, June 2002

Creditor's Rights Symposium, Illinois Institute for

Continuing Legal Education, March 2000; June 1998

Collection on Judgments Seminar, Chicago Bar

Association, Young Lawyers Section, yearly Spring

1996-2005

Illinois State Bar Association, Young Lawyer's Division,

luncheon seminar, March 1997

Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyer's Section,

Collection Law Project, April 1996.

Panel member for the Post-Judgment Collection

Procedures Training seminar, Chicago Bar Association

Young Lawyer's Section, January 2005

	In association with that seminar, co-authored
	an instructional brochure to be distributed by
	the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois to
	pro-se plaintiffs who are attempting to collect
	judgments.

Lecture entitled "Representing Creditors in Bankruptcy Proceedings"

given at the Illinois State Bar Association mid-year meeting 2005 and

annual meeting 2002.

	Panel member for the "Collection and Enforcement of
	Judgments" portion of the Update on Legal Developments
	for the General Practitioner, Joint Illinois Judges Association
	and Illinois State Bar Association meeting, General
	Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section, December 2004

Lecture Entitled "Post-Judgment Collections and Collecting From

Defendants Who Have Filed for Bankruptcy"

	Bridging the Gap Seminar, Illinois State Bar Association
	mid-year meeting, Young Lawyers Division, yearly each
	December 1997-2001

	Illinois State Bar Association mid-year meeting, 2004.

	Panel member for American Bankruptcy Institute's Chicago
	Consumer Bankruptcy Conference, July 2004

Lectures regarding the "Automatic Stay" and "Discharge &

Dischargeability" as part of the Consumer Bankruptcy Essentials of

Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 seminar, Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal

Education, December 2003

	Panel member for General Practice, Small & Solo
	committee's Seminar Entitled Bankruptcy for the Rest of
	Us, American Bar Association Annual Meeting, August 2003

Lecture Entitled "Personal Property Levies"

	Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyer's Section, luncheon
	seminar, September 1997

Featured speaker for question and answer session regarding advanced

bankruptcy issues for National Fasteners DunsCite Credit Group and Dun

& Bradstreet semi-monthly meeting, March 1995

Critiqued participants in an interactive group problem solving session,

where credit managers worked through a hypothetical bankrupt client

paradigm, Bankruptcy: a Growing Dilemma, Part II: Creditor Strategies,

Chicago-Midwest Credit Management Association, August 1993

APPOINTMENTS, CERTIFICATIONS AND HONORS:

Appointed by the U.S. Department of Justice to be a Chapter 7

Bankruptcy Trustee in the Northern District of Illinois. Handling cases

commonly known as the “Joliet Call” which covers cases by debtors filed

in Grundy, Kendall, LaSalle and Will Counties

Certified arbitrator Will County Mandatory Arbitration Program, 12th

Judicial Circuit, (1997 to present)

Certified arbitrator, Cook County Mandatory Arbitration Program, Circuit

Court of Cook County, 1997 to present (currently have chosen to maintain

inactive status)

Mediator, maintained on the list of the Clerk of the United States

Bankruptcy Court of mediators available to mediate disputes pursuant to

Local Bankruptcy Rules 9060-1 to 9060-12

A-V Rating, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Johnson Legal Group, LLC (f/k/a Johnson & Newby, LLC), Chicago,

Illinois; Managing Member (2005 - present)


	Concentrate in small to mid-size business representation
	with emphasis in commercial litigation, bankruptcy, and
	commercial collection

Johnson & Associates, Chicago, Illinois; Owner (July 1997 to July 2005)

	Concentrate in small to mid-size business representation
	with emphasis in commercial litigation, bankruptcy, and
	collection

Teller, Levit & Silvertrust, P.C., Chicago, Illinois; Attorney (1992 through

1997)

	Handled commercial collection cases, specializing in
	post-judgment practice. Represented creditors and debtors
	in Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, and in
	discharge and dischargeability litigation

	Involved in all aspects of Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee
	representation. Represented assignees for the benefit of
	creditors and handled workouts

J. Barton Kalish & Colleagues, Chicago, Illinois; Attorney (1989 through

1992)

	Represented debtors and trustees in Chapter 7 bankruptcy
	cases and debtors in Chapter 11 and Chapter 13 cases

	Prepared pleadings and participated in all phases of motion
	practice, discovery and pre-trial preparation in state and
	federal court.

	Co-drafted briefs in two cases to the Seventh Circuit, one of
	which convinced the Seventh Circuit to enunciate a new right
	under the Civil Rights Act of 1871.

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