David M. Stern is a member of KTBS, and a litigation attorney, specializing in business litigation, bankruptcy, reorganization and creditor's remedies. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1995. Mr. Stern has widely written and lectured on issues of federal civil practice and discovery and co-authored the two-volume treatise, California Civil Discovery Practice (1988 and 1998 editions), published by the Continuing Education of the Bar through the University of California. Among his other writings are "Recent Developments in Truth in Lending Class Actions and Proposed Alternatives," 27 Stanford Law Review 101, and "Mediation: An Old Dog With Some New Tricks," 24 Litigation 31.

Mr. Stern was appointed by Chief Judge Wallace as one of two attorneys in the Ninth Circuit (plus several judges) to the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Local Rules Review Committee (1992-96). He also served as the 1998-99 President of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers (ABTL). He was first elected to the ABTL Board of Governors in 1989 and re-elected in 1991, 1993 and 1995. Mr. Stern was also elected an alternate delegate to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in 1987; a full delegate in 1988; and, in 1989, Co-Chair for the term beginning in 1990-91. He is also a member of the American Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Financial Lawyers Conference of Los Angeles.

Mr. Stern served as law clerk to the Honorable Ben C. Duniway of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in Economics cum laude from Columbia University in 1972, he graduated from Stanford University Law School in 1975, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and was a member of the Stanford Law Review.

Mr. Stern has served as special litigation counsel to the Creditors’ Committee in the Chapter 11 cases of National Century Financial Enterprises, Inc., National Energy Gas & Transmission, Inc., Iridium Operating LLC, Pliant Corp. and Adelphia Communications, Corp., as general counsel to the Creditors’ Committee in the Chapter 11 cases of First Alliance Mortgage Company, Prandium and Orange Medical Instruments, as appellate counsel to the Debtor in the Chapter 11 case of Computer Communications, Inc., as trial and appellate counsel in connection with the Chapter 11 cases of Barry’s Jewelers, Inc., Crescent Jewelers, Inc., Enron Corp. and Washington Group, Inc., as trial counsel in In re San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire Litigation, MDL No. 721, as creditor’s counsel in the Chapter 11 cases of developers Donald Albrecht and H. Frank Dominguez, and as counsel for acquirers in the Chapter 11 cases of GenSci Orthobiologics, Inc., SFS Industries, San Diego Television, Inc. and Santa Monica Beach Hotel, Ltd. Reported cases include KWP Financial I v. Albrecht, 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 2793 (9th Cir. 1998); In re Dominguez, 51 F.3d 1502 (9th Cir. 1995); In re Dominguez, 995 F.2d 883 (9th Cir. 1993); In re Recticel Foam Corp., 859 F.2d 1000 (1st Cir. 1988); Computer Communications, Inc. v. Codex Corp., 824 F.2d 725 (9th Cir. 1987); In re Shaw, 16 B.R. 875 (Bankr. 9th Cir. 1982); In re Enron Creditors Recovery Corp., 2008 WL 718284 (S.D.N.Y. 2008); In re Enron Corp., 379 B.R. 425 (S.D.N.Y. 2007); Canada Life Assur. Co. v. Bank of America, 2006 WL 45427 (N.D. Ill. 2006); In re Adelphia Comm. Corp., 330 B.R. 364 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2005). Mr. Stern has also served as trial or appellate counsel in numerous unreported cases and decisions.