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Biography

Dale has extensive experience in all aspects of debtor/creditor relations, bankruptcy and insolvency litigation, and commercial and chancery litigation. With substantial trial and appellate experience, Dale leads a dedicated bankruptcy litigation team and also offers cost effective alternatives to litigation, through arbitrations, mediations, and alternative dispute resolution proceedings. He advises clients on all aspects of debtor/creditor disputes, workouts, and structured resolutions. He represents many of the firm’s secured and unsecured creditors and handles a wide variety of general commercial, corporate, and securities litigation.

Dale represents hard money lenders and lending funds in a variety of debtor cases, in both bankruptcy and state court.  He has represented commercial lenders such as The Bank of New York Mellon and international service companies such as the Veolia North American companies and the Clean Harbors companies.   He has also had substantial involvement in a number of the firm’s trustee/debtor/creditors’ and ad hoc committee cases, such as Cyxtera Technologies, Inc.; Molycorp, Inc.; DBSI, Inc.; Center City Healthcare LLC;  Mutual Benefit Overseas, Inc.;  and Twin County Grocers, Inc.

Dale practices in the Superior Court of New Jersey, United States District and Bankruptcy Courts for the District of New Jersey, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, United States District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and United States Bankruptcy Courts in other states.

Other Info About Dale

Experience

Legal Work Highlights

Representative Cases

Goldsmith v. Zazzali, 2019 U.S. Dist. 118490 (D. Idaho July 2, 2019)

Matson America Transportation Services, LLC v. Guaranteed Overnight Delivery, Inc. [and] Armstrong World Industries, Inc., et al., Docket No. MID-L-2678-05 (N.J. Super. Ct. Law Div. March 10, 2008)

In re Midstate Mortgage Investors, Inc., Case No. 03-2153 (3d Cir. August 5, 2004)

Rickel & Associates, Inc. v. Smith (In re Rickel & Associates, Inc.), 272 B.R. 4 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2002)

In re Rickel & Associates, Inc., 260 B.R. 673 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2001)

In re Manor Place Development Associates, L.P., 144 B.R. 67 (Bankr. D.N.J. 1992)

In re Skil-Air Corp., 142 B.R. 692 (Bankr. D.N.J. 1992)

Jersey Central Power & Light Co. v. Weigand, 234 N.J. Super. 514 (Law Div. 1989)

 

Education

Law School

College of William & Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, J.D.

  • President, Phi Alpha Delta, Wythe Chapter, 1985-1986
  • Articles Editor, The Colonial Lawyer, 1986-1987

Undergraduate School

University of Virginia, B.A.

Bar Memberships

Dale is licensed to practice in the following state(s):

New Jersey

Courts

Dale is admitted to practice before the following court(s):

United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

United States District Court for the Northern District of New York

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Recognition

Local & National Recognition

Award Selection Methodology

Recognized by Best Lawyers®, 2026 Edition: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation – Bankruptcy

Included on the Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business list, Bankruptcy/Restructuring

Included on the New Jersey Super Lawyers list, Bankruptcy: Business

Included on the Martindale-Hubbell AV® Peer Review Rated list

Professional Affiliations

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

American Bar Association
Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Sections

 

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