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J. David Forsyth’s practice includes bankruptcy
reorganization, various shopping center matters, creditors’
rights, loan workouts, and commercial and real estate
transactions and litigation.
Mr. Forsyth has been listed in
the bankruptcy law section of Best Lawyers in
America since 1995. Mr. Forsyth has
also been named in the 2005-2007 editions of the
Chambers & Partners Client Guide as one of
America's Leading Lawyers for Business in the
area of business bankruptcy, where he was also
noted for his expertise in real estate litigation.
He is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute
and various subcommittees of the Business Bankruptcy
Committee of the American Bar Association’s
Section of Business Law. He served as a contributing
author to the Wiley Bankruptcy Law Update (1998
and 1999 editions). Previously he was a member
of the Commercial Law League of America.
Mr. Forsyth has been an associate member
of the International Council of Shopping Centers
(ICSC), the trade organization of the shopping
center industry, for many years. He served for
several terms as the ICSC’s Louisiana State
Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman, and as
a member of its Law Committee. He is currently
a member of its Bankruptcy Task Force and its
Economic Subcommittee. He has written articles
and spoken on panels for programs sponsored by
the ICSC and by the American Bankruptcy Institute
about legal problems relating to bankruptcy and
its impact upon shopping center leases.
Recently, Mr. Forsyth’s practice has included
bankruptcy reorganization in the mass tort context.
He has acted as counsel for the Future Claimants’
Representative in a large asbestos-driven Chapter 11
reorganization proceeding. The goal and purpose of that
case was the confirmation of a plan of reorganization
under the specialized section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy
Code dealing exclusively with asbestos-related bankruptcy
proceedings.
Mr. Forsyth has served on an advisory committee for
continuing legal education programs sponsored by Tulane
Law School in the area of bankruptcy. He has spoken
at various seminars sponsored by the Louisiana Bankers
Association on bankruptcy issues, particularly the impact
of the Bankruptcy Code on Louisiana security devices,
executory contracts and leases, loan documentation,
work-outs, and bankruptcy. He has also been written
about, consulted for and quoted in various publications
on shopping center and bankruptcy issues. He served
on a local advisory committee selected by the United
States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
for the promulgation of local bankruptcy rules.
In addition to the practice areas described above,
Mr. Forsyth’s practice has also included the defense
side of products liability litigation. In connection
with that practice, he was a member of the Products
Liability Advisory Council (PLAC), an organization of
select product manufacturers and their attorneys.
Mr. Forsyth’s practice has
also included the defense of media organizations
in defamation and other First Amendment litigation.
That experience resulted in his becoming a member
of the Media Law Resource Center (MLRC), formerly
known as the Libel Defense Resource Center (LDRC).
The members of that organization regularly represent
national media organizations in an array of First
Amendment matters. Mr. Forsyth currently serves
as a co-author of the Louisiana libel law section
of the LDRC’s annual nation-wide survey of
libel laws in all of the United States.
He is a former Secretary, Vice-Chairman, and Chairman
(1983-1984) of the Corporation and Business Law Section
of the Louisiana Bar Association. He also served on
the Bank Counsel Committee of the Louisiana Bankers
Association and on that organization’s Task Force,
which was formed in connection with Louisiana’s
adoption of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code
relating to secured financing in Louisiana.
Mr. Forsyth received his bachelor’s degree cum
laude from Brown University in 1968. He received his
juris doctor degree and graduated Order of the Coif
from Tulane University Law School in 1973. He served
as a law clerk to the late Judge Alvin B. Rubin, then
United States District Judge for the Eastern District
of Louisiana (later Circuit Judge for the United States
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals).
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