Lee Harrington Associate lharrington@nixonpeabody.com 617-345-6016 Fax: 866-741-0618 Boston, MA Download vCard

Practice Areas

Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring
Creditors Committees
Debtors
Distressed Business & Asset Sales

Experience

As a member of the firm’s Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy practice, Mr. Harrington’s practice is concentrated primarily on bankruptcy, reorganization, and commercial lending. He has represented debtors, trustees, secured lenders, creditors committees and unsecured creditors in negotiated workouts, assignments for the benefit of creditors, commercial litigation matters, and all aspects of Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 cases in courts across the country.

Mr. Harrington also practices in the firm’s Sports and Entertainment practice representing musicians, bands, song writers, record producers, comedians, management companies, authors, screen writers, film makers, studio executives, and other members of the entertainment industry in a wide variety of matters.

Recently, Mr. Harrington lectured on issues affecting directors and officers of companies in the "zone of insolvency" for the Boston Bar Associations Commercial Law Section.  He has also lectured on creditors' rights in bankruptcy, with a particular focus on reclamation rights, stay relief and avoidance litigation for the Massachusetts Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Program.

Admissions

Mr. Harrington is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, as well as the United States district courts for the districts of Massachusetts, Southern New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, and Delaware.

Education

Boston College Law School, J.D.
University of Massachusetts, Boston, B.A.
Paul F. Boller Award for Outstanding Senior History Thesis
Leonard Hirsch Award for Outstanding Senior in Economics

Affiliations

Mr. Harrington is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Boston and Massachusetts bar associations. Mr. Harrington also serves as Co-Chairman of the Boston Bar Associations Law and Policy Committee of the BBA's Bankruptcy Law Section. As Co-Chair, Mr. Harrington has taken an active role in the BBA's efforts to modernize the Massachusetts' homestead and personal property exemption statutes and has testified before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary on behalf of the BBA's membership.