Title: SENIOR ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY

Nina Z. Javan

Nina is a Senior Associate Attorney at Lagerlof, LLP, in the litigation department, where she focuses her practice on probate, trusts, guardianships, and conservatorships.

Nina started her legal career in insolvency, representing debtors, creditors, and estate fiduciaries in bankruptcy, receiverships, assignments for the benefit of creditors, out-of-court workouts, and related litigation. She then served as outside in-house counsel for smaller financial institutions and fintechs, handling corporate governance matters, drafting institutional policies and procedures, ensuring regulatory compliance and interfacing with regulators and resolving regulatory complaints, providing day-to-day assistance and advice to operations on the deposit side, and drafting and negotiating vendor agreements.

Nina graduated from Scripps College with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics-Accounting, and earned her Juris Doctor from Pepperdine University School of Law, where she was a teaching assistant for Real Property, and an American Bar Association Law Student Division Liaison. Nina has also taught Bankruptcy Law at the law school level.

CORE PRACTICES

Estate Planning
Litigation
Trust & Probate

EDUCATION

Pepperdine School of Law – Juris Doctor
Scripps College, Claremont – Bachelor’s Degree in Economics-Accounting

LANGUAGES

English

BAR ADMISSION

California
District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern, Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of California

Awards & Recognitions

CALI Award, International Insolvency
CALI Award, Real Property
Central District of California Bankruptcy Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2012

Professional Associations

Los Angeles County Bar Association, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section, Past Programs Chair
Los Angeles County Bar Association, Past Bankruptcy Pro Bono Committee Chair
Central District Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys Association, Past Board Member
American Bankruptcy Institute, Emerging Industries and Technology Committee

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