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Christopher Andrew Jarvinen Appointed to the Lawyers Advisory Committee of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida
January 6, 2020
Christopher Andrew Jarvinen, a partner on the Business Reorganization Team of Berger Singerman LLP, has accepted an invitation to serve for a three-year on the Lawyers Advisory Committee (“LAC”) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida (“Court”).
The LAC fulfills a variety of purposes including receiving requests from the Court to consider issues relating to, arising from, and/or affecting the practice of law before the Court, and to recommend to the Court changes in bankruptcy practice and/or procedure throughout the district. The LAC also acts as a liaison between the Court and individual bankruptcy law practitioners throughout the district, as well as develops, implements, and maintains various bankruptcy related programs in the district, as requested by the Court, and the LAC considers or initiates any matter related to bankruptcy that it deems appropriate. Mr. Jarvinen’s term runs through December 31, 2022.
Mr. Jarvinen has been elected to the American College of Bankruptcy, American Law Institute, and the International Insolvency Institute. He received his law degree from Boston College Law School, his undergraduate degree in Economics from Brown University, graduate degrees in theological ethics and religion from, respectively, Harvard Divinity School and Yale Divinity School, a Global Executive Master of Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas – Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (FGV-EAESP) and both a Postgraduate Diploma in Organisational Leadership and a Master of Science degree in Major Programme Management from the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford. Mr. Jarvinen is currently attending Columbia University’s program on Computers in Education and is focusing his research on approaches to improving the Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) system which is the Federal Judiciary’s comprehensive case management system. Mr. Jarvinen has also served as an adjunct professor of business at FGV-EAESP teaching courses focused on international legal management. Mr. Jarvinen recently received a Fulbright scholar grant and served in residence at the Bankruptcy Law & Restructuring Research Center of the Chinese University of Political Science and Law in Beijing.
