Ethan Whitaker focuses his practice on bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, distressed debt, and commercial foreclosures, and represents creditors, debtors, trustees, special servicers, and lenders in real estate-related and bankruptcy-related litigation.
Ethan’s experience includes serving as a judicial law clerk for the Hon. Stanley R. Chesler of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and Hon. Stuart A. Minkowitz, Assignment Judge to the New Jersey Superior Court, Morris/Sussex Vicinage, where he helped conduct research and draft opinions for dispositive and pretrial motions in civil matters and mediated landlord/tenant matters. Ethan also served as an intern for the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of the General Counsel assisting the Office of Enforcement with enforcement actions and the Office of Litigation with Freedom of Information Act and National Environmental Policy Act cases.