Richard M. Meth
Partner
973.994.7515
Named as one of the leading bankruptcy/restructuring attorneys by
Chambers USA, Rick focuses his practice on creditor's rights, workouts, reorganizations and insolvency-related issues. His clients include leading commercial banks in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan region; major insurance companies and other institutional lenders; and local, national and multinational corporations. He has also represented various committees in Chapter 11 cases and been appointed as both an examiner and special Chapter 11 trustee by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. Rick has also been approved, and has served, as a mediator in connection with the Circuit City bankruptcy cases by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Rick appears regularly before the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for the District of New Jersey, the Southern District of New York and the District of Delaware.
Before Fox Rothschild
Prior to joining the firm, Rick was a partner with Day Pitney LLP. While attending law school, Rick clerked for The Honorable Arthur L. Burnett, Chief Magistrate, of the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC.
Beyond Fox Rothschild
A frequent lecturer, Rick speaks throughout the United States on bankruptcy-related topics, including ethics, bankruptcy sales, real estate workouts and bankruptcy/environmental matters, fraudulent transfer and lender liability issues, and director and officer liability.
Rick has served on several committees and boards including:
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the National Ethics Task Force
- Advisory Board member of "Views from the Bench" co-sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center Continuing Legal Education Division
- Past Vice President of Publications
- Ethics Committee co-chair from 2001-2008
- Past chair of the Research and Education Committee
- Former associate editor of the ABI Journal
- American Bar Association, Section of Business Law
- Co-chair of the Abuses of Bankruptcy Process Subcommittee of the Business Bankruptcy Committee
- Business Bankruptcy Committee Liaison to the American Bankruptcy Institute
- Former chair of the Bankruptcy Appeals Subcommittee and the Labor and Employment Law Subcommittee of the Business Bankruptcy Committee
- Anti-Defamation League
- National Associate Commissioner (2000-present)
- Former chair of the New Jersey Regional Advisory Board (1996-1999)
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of New Jersey
- Member of the Local Bankruptcy Rules Revision Committee
Honors and Awards
• Selected as one of "New Jersey's Top Legal Minds" by the American Registry (2013)
• Selected as one of the "Best Attorneys in New York" by Best Lawyers (2013)
• Included in the 2013 edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2013)
• Named as one of the leading bankruptcy/restructuring attorneys in Chambers USA Legal Directory (2009-2013)
• Due to his involvement in the firm's financial restructuring and bankruptcy department, Rick helped Fox earn the 2011 New Jersey - Bankruptcy & Restructuring Law Firm of the Year Award from Global Law Experts
• Martindale-Hubbell "AV" rated
• Selected for inclusion in Who’s Who Legal USA Insolvency & Restructuring (2006)
• Included in a list of "New Jersey's Best Lawyers" in the area of Bankruptcy & Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency & Reorganization Law (2011-2012)
• Included in a list of New Jersey "Super Lawyers" (2005 through 2009 and 2011 through 2012)
• Included in a list of "Super Lawyers," Corporate Counsel Edition (2009 and 2010)
• Included in a list of "Best Lawyers in America" in the area of Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law (2010-2013)