Overview
Michael L. Simon is an associate at Raines Feldman Littrell LLP, and focuses his practice on bankruptcy and business reorganization matters, and commercial litigation. His experience includes representing chapter 11 debtors, creditors’ committees, trustees, secured and unsecured creditors, judgment creditors, and receivers in various bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings.
Mr. Simon received his undergraduate degree in finance and economic policy from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business in 2009. He received his J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law and his Certificate in Dispute Resolution from the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution in 2014. While in law school, Mr. Simon served judicial externships to the Honorable Robert N. Kwan, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California, and the Honorable Valerie B. Fairbank, United States District Court Judge for the Central District of California. After law school, he served a judicial clerkship to the Honorable Robert N. Kwan from 2015 to 2017.
Mr. Simon served as a director for the Orange County Bankruptcy Forum from 2019 through 2022 and was recognized as a Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Star from 2020 through 2025, and a Best Lawyers In America: Ones to Watch from 2021 through 2025.
Education
- Pepperdine University School of Law, J.D., 2014
- New York University, B.S., 2009
Admissions
- State Bar of California
- United States Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California
- U.S. District Courts, Central, Eastern, Southern and Northern Districts of California
- United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, Ninth Circuit
- United States Appeals Court, Ninth Circuit