Kristin Kay Schroeder
Email: kschroeder@forsheyprostok.com
Kristin Kay Schroeder, of counsel to the Firm, practices bankruptcy and commercial litigation. Following law school, she clerked for Barbara J. Houser, Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Texas. Following her clerkship, Ms. Schroeder practiced in the areas of complex Chapter 11 bankruptcy, commercial litigation and creditors’ rights in both Texas and Nebraska.
Ms. Schroeder has also served as an Adjunct Professor of legal writing at the University of Nebraska College of Law and as an Associate Professor at Baylor Law School, where she taught the Bankruptcy course and coached the Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court team. Most recently, Ms. Schroeder gained significant experience pursuing appeals in both federal and state court.
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL:
- Texas Christian University (B.A., Cum Laude, English with a French minor, 1996)
- Southern Methodist University School of Law (J.D., Cum Laude, 2002, Order of the Coif)
- Law Clerk to the Honorable Barbara J. Houser, Chief United States Bankruptcy Judge, Northern District of Texas
- Licensed to practice law in Texas and Nebraska
- Admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas and the District of Nebraska
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
- Kristin Schroeder Simpson: Fifth Circuit’s Executory Contract Standards Deconstructed, 26 MISS. C.L. REV. 225 (2007), which is cited in the Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice (December 2007).
- Kristin Schroeder Simpson: Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act: Speaker, Nebraska Bar Association Employment Law Seminar (2005).
- Michelle Larson and Kristin Schroeder Simpson: District Court has Jurisdiction to Authorize Debtor to Reject Executory Power Contract Subject to FERC Regulation, Bankruptcy Bulletin (Weil, Gotshal & Manges. New York, N.Y. 2004).
- Holly D. Meister and Kristin Schroeder Simpson: Circuit Splits – The Great Divide? National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (2003).
- Kristin Schroeder: Student Comment, Failing to Prevent the Tragedy, but Facing the Trauma: The Aviation Disaster Family Assistance Act of 1996 and The Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act of 2001, 67 J. AIR LAW & COMM. 1 (2002).