About me
Kathy Bazoian Phelps has been a lawyer since 1991 and is currently a partner at Raines Feldman LLP in the Los Angeles office. Kathy practices in the area of insolvency law, fiduciary representation, and fraud litigation, and she serves as a fiduciary herself. Her practice includes representing federal equity and state court receivers and bankruptcy trustees. She also frequently serves as special litigation counsel for fiduciaries and interested parties in fraud-related litigation or cases arising out of receivership and bankruptcy cases. She is particularly knowledgeable about the administration of Ponzi schemes.
Kathy has lectured widely and written on bankruptcy and receivership matters, with a focus on Ponzi schemes. Her book entitled The Ponzi Book: A Legal Resource for Unraveling Ponzi Schemes, co-authored with Hon. Steven Rhodes, has garnered national and international attention as the authoritative work on Ponzi scheme law. She is also the co-author of The Depths of Deepening Insolvency: Damage Exposure For Officers, Directors and Others, and she is a co-author of Fraud and Forensics: Piercing Through the Deception in a Commercial Fraud Case.