Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Paul Hage of Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss (Southfield, Mich.) has been named to a two-year term as the Secretary for ABI’s Executive Committee. An ABI member since 2006, Hage is a member of ABI’s Board of Directors, the education director of ABI's Emerging Industries and Technology Committee in addition to belonging to six other ABI membership committees, is a co-director of ABI’s Conrad B. Duberstein National Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition, contributes to the Benchnotes column in the ABI Journal, is an inaugural member of ABI’s “40 Under 40” program and is a frequent speaker at ABI events.

Hage is a partner in the Southfield, Mich., office of Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss and chairs the firm’s Insolvency and Reorganization Practice Group. He specializes in representing asset-purchasers, unsecured creditors’ committees, debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, and trustees in bankruptcy proceedings nationwide.

Hage earned his B.A. from James Madison College at Michigan State University and his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He earned his LL.M. in Bankruptcy from St. John's University School of Law. Hage is Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification and is an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan Law School.

The complete list of directors and officers is available at http://www.abi.org/about-us/board-directors.

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ABI is the largest multi-disciplinary, nonpartisan organization dedicated to research and education on matters related to insolvency. ABI was founded in 1982 to provide Congress and the public with unbiased analysis of bankruptcy issues. The ABI membership includes nearly 10,000 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information. For additional information on ABI, visit www.abiworld.org. For additional conference information, visit http://www.abi.org/calendar-of-events.