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Dave Audley is a partner in the General Litigation Department and has been practicing law since 1985 when he joined Chapman and Cutler LLP. Mr. Audley concentrates his practice in the commercial litigation area, particularly litigation involving creditor/debtor work, bankruptcy law, securitization and securities fraud issues, government finance and tax, and banking law. Mr. Audley's recent governmental assignments have involved serving as Special Assistant State's Attorney for numerous counties in Illinois, providing litigation representation in various civil matters involving finance and tax issues. Mr. Audley has practiced and submitted legal memoranda before the Illinois and United States Supreme Courts and various federal Courts of Appeals, and prosecuted one of the ten largest civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations ("RICO") Act damage awards ever rendered by a jury in the United States. His professional activities have included presentations to the bar associations on litigation related matters, instruction of civil procedure courses, and periodically conducting in-house seminars on various litigation topics. Representative recent matters include: Representation of a major religious organization against SEC charges of securities fraud Representation of $1,000,000,000 U.S. arm of Japanese investment firm in securitization litigation Representation of major Chicago bank on numerous multi-million dollar credits outside of and in bankruptcy Representation of minority shareholders in litigation resulting in precedent-setting multi-million dollar trial court judgment in favor of minority shareholders Special trial counsel to court-appointed Bankruptcy Trustee in multi-million dollar adversary proceeding Publications Co-author, "The Case of Missing or Incomplete Documents in CMBS Transactions, a Legal Perspective," published in the Real Estate Finance Journal, Spring 2001. | 