Michael Zundel Attorney Salt Lake

About Michael N. Zundel

Michael Zundel provides litigation counsel and services to national and local banks, leasing companies, real estate developers, investors, bankruptcy trustees and business people in a variety of enterprises.

A significant portion of Mr. Zundel’s practice has been devoted to complex banking, real estate and business matters and to the prosecution and defense of fraud and breach of contract cases and EPA litigation. He has authored Chapter 11 bankruptcy plans for both debtors and creditors and has represented trustees and major creditors in numerous bankruptcy cases and proceedings in industries as diverse as agriculture, aviation, mining, communications, leasing and real estate development.

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Prior Professional Experience

Michael Zundel has practiced as a trial attorney in all state and federal trial and appellate courts in Utah. He has also presented arguments to the United States Courts of Appeal in the Ninth and Tenth Circuits, and in state or federal trial courts in the states of California, Idaho, Illinois, Mississippi, Nevada, Oregon and Wyoming.

Education

  • University of Utah College of Law, J.D., 1982
  • Member of the Utah Law Review
  • William H. Leary Scholar
  • University of Utah, MBA, 1981
  • University of Utah, B.A. in Finance, 1979

Admissions

  • Utah
  • U.S. District Court, District of Utah
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
  • United States Supreme Court

Affiliations

  • Member of the American Association for Justice
  • American Bar Association
  • American Bankruptcy Institute
  • Aldon J. Anderson Inn of Court (President 2006-08)
  • Utah Bankruptcy Lawyers Forum (President 2003-04)
  • Former Member Advisory Committee for the Local Rules of Practice of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Utah
  • Association of Trial Lawyers of America
  • Utah State Bar

Distinctions & Awards

Representative Cases

  • In re Coal-X Ltd. ’76’, 60 B.R. 907 (Bankr. D. Utah 1986)
  • John Deere v. Iverson, 66 B.R. 219 (Bankr. D. Utah 1986)’
  • Utah Farm Production Credit Association v. Labrum, 762 P.2d 1070 (Utah 1988)
  • In re Caldwell 101 B.R. 728 (Bankr. D. Utah 1989)
  • Rushton v. Philadelphia Forest Products, Inc., 161 B.R. 707 (Bankr. D. Utah 1993)
  • Rushton v. Saratoga Forest Products, Inc. 172 B.R. 99 (Bankr. D. Utah 1994)
  • In re Gledhill, 76 F.3d 1070 (10th Cir. 1996)
  • In re Eleva, 226 B.R. 123 (Bankr. D. Utah 1998)
  • Applied Medical Tech. v. Amorie Eames, 44 P.3d 699 (Ut 2002)
  • Kratz v. Heritage Honda, 71 P.3d 188 (Ut. App. 2003)
  • In re Kitts (Bird v. Winterfox) (Jan. 13, 2012) 2-12 WL 113820
  • LDIII v. Beverly Davis, 385 P.3d 689 (Ut App. 2016)
  • The Armer Texas Trust v. Brazell, 397 P.3d 604 (Ut App. 2017)

Languages

  • German

Personal

  • Born at Hill Air Force Base, Utah
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