Firm

Fourton & Associates specializes in representing defendants in debtor or trustee originated lawsuits.
 
We are a boutique firm with a mission to provide expert high quality service with both personal attention and cost effective execution.

Since our mission is to provide our clients big firm quality service with small firm cost effectiveness We focus on just a few areas of bankruptcy litigation: Preference and Fraudulent Conveyance litigation, Claim Disputes and Lift Stay Litigation.

Our disciplined focus permits us to leverage concentrated experience enabling us to zero in on key issues quickly. We make use of our extensive pleading database to avoid unnecessary research or drafting. We form groups of similarly situated defendants. While each case is unique and treated individually, sharing knowledge and litigation expenses gives our clients a unique advantage.

We leverage internet cloud technology to provide instant nationwide, and worldwide, representation through our special bankruptcy counsel network.

Preference Litigation

Preference litigation forms a large part of our practice.  Over the last decade our firm has handled the defense of  over 150 preference cases. 

Our experience and focus empowers  our clients with the powerful advantages of systematized analysis  based upon years of accumulated real world preference  defense negotiation and litigation.

Fraudulent Conveyance Litigation

Our experience defending fraudulent conveyance matters allows us to quickly isolate the uniquely fact intensive analysis crucial to litigation under section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code. Speed and  expertise and critical elements in confronting the challenge of fraudulent  conveyance litigation.

Claim Disputes

We handle claim disputes so our client obtain the maximum payout possible pursuant to creditor rights under the Bankruptcy Code. We handle the entire process from filing Claim Notices to responding to claim objections. Often, our clients retain us to handle these matters on contingency.

Lift Stay Motions

We have many years experience filing motions to lift the automatic stay on behalf of client ranging from attorneys seeking to continue personal injury litigation to secured lenders seeking access to collateral. We can act quickly and cost effectively given our large precedent file of prior motions.