Union represents clients across a broad range of practice areas, including Litigation, Real Estate and Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy. She has been practicing law since 1999 and has been with Kegler Brown since 2003.
Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy
Stephanie spends most of her time representing clients in all aspects of creditors' rights and bankruptcy matters. She leverages her talents and experience in issues including foreclosures, collections, garnishments, executions, out-of-court workouts and relief from stay concerns. Stephanie’s representative clientele comprises secured creditors, unsecured creditors committees, Chapter 11 debtors, Chapter 7 trustees and small business debtors in all chapters of bankruptcy. Stephanie is also involved in litigations relating to breaches of representations and warranties stemming from the sale of commercial mortgage-backed securities.
Real Estate
Another aspect of Stephanie’s practice is her work for firm clients in real estate litigation. She is experienced in negotiating workouts on real estate loan transactions and represents lenders in litigation matters, including foreclosures. Stephanie is also hired by title insurance companies to defend relevant policy rights of both lenders and owners.
Title Insurance Defense
Stephanie’s practice extends to title insurance defense issues, including her representation of owners with cloud-on-title issues. Title insurance companies and lenders rely on Stephanie’s knowledge to solve priority issues and title disputes in state courts and bankruptcy proceedings.
Union represents clients across a broad range of practice areas, including Litigation, Real Estate and Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy. She has been practicing law since 1999 and has been with Kegler Brown since 2003.
Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy
Stephanie spends most of her time representing clients in all aspects of creditors' rights and bankruptcy matters. She leverages her talents and experience in issues including foreclosures, collections, garnishments, executions, out-of-court workouts and relief from stay concerns. Stephanie’s representative clientele comprises secured creditors, unsecured creditors committees, Chapter 11 debtors, Chapter 7 trustees and small business debtors in all chapters of bankruptcy. Stephanie is also involved in litigations relating to breaches of representations and warranties stemming from the sale of commercial mortgage-backed securities.
Real Estate Another aspect of Stephanie’s practice is her work for firm clients in real estate litigation. She is experienced in negotiating workouts on real estate loan transactions and represents lenders in litigation matters, including foreclosures. Stephanie is also hired by title insurance companies to defend relevant policy rights of both lenders and owners.
Title Insurance Defense
Stephanie’s practice extends to title insurance defense issues, including her representation of owners with cloud-on-title issues. Title insurance companies and lenders rely on Stephanie’s knowledge to solve priority issues and title disputes in state courts and bankruptcy proceedings.
Career Highlights - Selected as an “Ohio Rising Star” by Law & Politics Magazine, a publication that recognizes the top up-and-coming attorneys in the state, based on voting by individuals previously identified by the magazine as “Ohio Super Lawyers®.” Ohio Super Lawyers are said to represent the top 5 percent of the legal profession.
- Practiced for two years in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- Served as a judicial extern for Judge Robert Ruehlman in the Hamilton County, Ohio, Court of Common Pleas.
- Appointed by the Southern District of Ohio Court as a Special Master in 2007
Professional Memberships - Columbus Bar Association, Bankruptcy Committee, member, Women Lawyers of Franklin County, member
- Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), Board of Trustees, member (2005-2011); Board Development Committee, past chair; Outward Committee, member
- International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), member; local network, former co-chair and current member
- Ohio Land Title Association, member
- Ohio State Bar Association, member
- Women for Economic and Leadership Development (WELD), member
- Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO), member
Publications & Presentations - “Dischargeability Actions,” National Business Institute, presented 2011.
- “Update on Checks and Electronic Payments,” National Association of Credit Managers, presented 2011.
- “Bankruptcy Basics”, National Association of Credit Managers, presented 2010.
- “The Impact of Bankruptcy on Pending Litigation,” Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys, presented 2009.
- “Speed Counts,” Presentation, “Optimizing Your Receivables: Using Lessons from Trying Times” Seminar, 2009.
- “Section 727 - Roadblocks to Discharge,” Chapter, Norton’s Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, 2008.
- “What You Should Know About the FCRA, the FACTA, the ECOA and the FDCPA,” The Legal Environment of Credit Seminar, presented 2008.
- “Are You a Debt Collector under the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act?,” Article, The Advocate Litigation Newsletter, January 2007.
- “Section 727 - The Barrier to Discharge,” Chapter, Norton’s Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, 2007.
- “New Arrows for Your Quiver” & “Preference Liability, How to Keep What You Collect,” Presentation, National Association of Credit Managers, 2006.
- “The New Bankruptcy Prevention & Consumer Protection Act of 2005,” Presentation, the National Association of Credit Managers, 2005.
- “Basics of Bankruptcy,” Presentation, the National Association of Credit Managers, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and to Ross Laboratories, 2002.
- “The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act,” Presentation, the Ohio State Bar Association, Consumer Law Institute, 2005.
Bar Admissions - Ohio
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Education - Juris Doctorate (1999)
University of Cincinnati College of Law
International Law Society, treasurer - Bachelor of Arts, International Studies and Political Science
Minors in Spanish and Latin American Studies (1996)
Miami University - Semester Abroad (Summer 1995)
Universidad de Costa Rica
San Pedro, Costa Rica - Semester at Sea Program (Spring 1995)
University of Pittsburgh