David M. Guess - Lawyer in Irvine, CA

David has over a decade of experience in bankruptcy and corporate restructuring and bankruptcy litigation. His main practice area is bankruptcy and corporate restructuring. He is involved in cases at both the regional and national level. He has been on virtually every side of a bankruptcy case, giving him unique insights into the players and the process. He represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, asset purchasers, trustees, creditors committees, litigation trusts, fraudulent transfer and preference defendants, landlords, and others.

David formerly served as a law clerk to the Honorable Maureen A. Tighe of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California. He also served as a judicial extern to both Los Angeles Bankruptcy Judge Thomas B. Donovan (senior status) and to the late Honorable David G. Sills, Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division Three, sitting in Santa Ana, California.

David has been named by the AmericanBankruptcy Institute as a 2018 Top 40 Under 40 emerging leader in theinsolvency practice, in Best Lawyers? for his work in bankruptcy andcreditor-debtor rights, insolvency and reorganization law, as a Super Lawyers? honoree in Super Lawyers? Magazine (So. Cal. Edition) and is AVPreeminent Rated by Martindale-Hubbell. He is a member of the boardsof directors of the Southern California Chapter of the TurnaroundManagement Association and of the Los Angeles and Orange County BankruptcyForums. He has been an advisory board member and panel producer forvarious bankruptcy conferences, and has spoken at bankruptcy conferences and atother educational events hosted by the American Bankruptcy Institute, theCalifornia Bankruptcy Forum, the Financial LawyersConference, and the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum. Hewas a Conference Co-Chair of the California Bankruptcy Forum. David is on the panels of pro bono volunteer mediators for the U.S. BankruptcyCourts for the Central and Southern Districts of California.

David is licensed to practice law in California, New York and the District of Columbia, and to appear before the Supreme Court of the United States and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, and Ninth Circuits. He is also a licensed real estate broker.

David received his law degree from UCLA School of Law, where he graduated Order of the Coif (fourth in his class) and was an Editor with UCLA Law Review, and his undergraduate degrees in History and Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA.