Jeffrey T. Kucera, a partner in the Miami office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP, was appointed Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Business Bankruptcy Committee’s Secured Creditors Subcommittee. He will serve a two-year term.

At K&L Gates, Kucera is a litigator who focuses his practice on bankruptcy, debtors’ and creditors’ rights and commercial litigation. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law.

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