Licenses: California State Bar – 1991 to present; Nevada State Board of Accountancy, Certified Public Accountant – 1985-1990.

Education: University of Nevada at Reno, (B.A., Accounting with honors, 1984) McGeorge School of Law, (J.D., 1990).

Honors: American Jurisprudence Award: Reorganizations, Recapitalizations and Insolvencies; Decedents, Estates and Trusts. Member of the Pacific Law Journal, 1988-1989; Case Note Editor for the Pacific Law Journal, 1989-1990.

Area of Specialization: Commercial and civil litigation, Chapter 7 and 11 debtor bankruptcies, creditor’s rights practice, receiverships, representation of Assignees/Debtors in assignments for the benefit of creditors (ABC’s), and strategizing options between a bankruptcy, ABC or workout.

Professional History: Founding Partner Goe Forsythe & Hodges LLP October 2019 – present; Founding Partner Goe & Forsythe, LLP, 1998; Of Counsel, Frankel & Tennant Professional Corporation, April 1996 to June 1998; Associate, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, September 1991 to April 1996; CPA, Ernst & Young (formerly Arthur Young), 1984-1987.

Law Clerk: Honorable James N. Barr, Judge United States Bankruptcy Court, 1990 to 1991.

Publications: “Undercollateralized Creditors Cry Timber to the Right to Compensation for Interest on the Value of Collateral,” Pacific Law Review, Vol. 20, Summer 1989.

Member: American Bar Association; State Bar of California; Orange County Bar Association, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Sections; Orange County Bankruptcy Forum; American Bankruptcy Institute. Certified Public Accountant in State of Nevada (1985-1990); Member of the Nevada Society of Certified Public Accounts (1985-1990); Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (1985-1990). Admitted to practice in all California state courts; all California federal courts; the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (March 2005).