Susan Poll KlaessyPartner at Foley & Lardner (Chicago)Speaker
Profile
Susan Poll Klaessy is a partner and the chair of Foley & Lardner LLP’s Bankruptcy & Business Reorganizations Practice. Susan is a trusted advocate for corporate clients on bankruptcy and insolvency matters, fiduciary liability, debtors’ and creditors’ rights, corporate wind-downs or reorganizations, fraud, corporate governance disputes, and complex business litigation. She is also an active member of the Commercial Litigation and Consumer Law, Finance & Class Action Practices. In addition, Susan serves on the firm’s Recruiting Committee.
Susan has represented debtors, creditors, and other stakeholders in restructurings, liquidations, and other distressed situations. Additionally, she is an experienced trial counsel and has litigated numerous business disputes, including class action cases, arbitrations, appeals, and other high-stakes corporate disputes across a wide range of industries.
Susan has also served as an adjunct law professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Before law school, Susan worked for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Financial Services and the City of Chicago Department of Law.