Adam J. Ruttenberg's principal areas of practice are bankruptcy litigation and business reorganization and he represents debtors, creditors, and bankruptcy trustees. Adam applies his breadth of experience along with his knowledge of law to benefit his clients. He majored in mathematics in college and worked in an actuarial program at John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company prior to attending law school. Also, Adam’s past experience at the FDIC has allowed him to see first hand how the “other side” thinks. He uses this insight to plan the best strategy for his clients.
Adam is a native of Norwalk, Connecticut and a graduate of Yale University (B.A. summa cum laude, 1984) and Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 1988). He was admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1989, following a judicial clerkship in New Haven, Connecticut with Judge Jose A. Cabranes, then of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. He was associated with Bingham, Dana & Gould in Boston between 1989 and 1991, and between 1991 and 1996 he was Senior Attorney at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s office in Franklin, Massachusetts, where he had responsibility for bankruptcy matters involving the loan portfolios of approximately 40 failed banks. Adam joined Looney & Grossman in 1996 and became a partner in 2001. He also is admitted to practice in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.
Adam is a member of the Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court's Attorney Advisory Committee for the Local Rules and also serves on the MCLE Business and Commercial Law Curriculum Advisory Committee. He is active in the Boston Bar Association and on the Steering Committee of its Bankruptcy Section, having previously been co-chair of the Section’s Pro Bono Committee and its Consumer Finance Committee. He received the Boston Bar Association Bankruptcy Law Section Special Achievement Award in 2011.
Adam is AV-rated® by the Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory, its highest rating for legal ability and professional ethics. |
