Ms. Frank has been in practice for over 40 years. She is one of less than 300 lawyers in the country board certified in both business and consumer bankruptcy law.

Ms. Frank has helped hundreds of people seeking to start a business or improve the organizational structure of their existing businesses. She has successfully orchestrated the restructuring and reorganization of business entities including airlines, construction companies, restaurants, software development companies, retail operations, homeowner associations, agricultural concerns, and medical practices. She actively represents creditors in bankruptcy proceedings and has extensive experience in bankruptcy adversary proceedings. She has prevailed against such adversaries as the Internal Revenue Service and opposing bankruptcy trustees. Her cases have resulted in published and game-changing case law.

Her Connection with the Public and the Legal Community

Ms. Frank lectures extensively to lawyers, accountants, business chambers, and bankers toward the expanded recognition of financial distress and related planning and aversion techniques. She has appeared on national radio and television broadcasts, including the Bloomberg Network, and discussed financial distress issues.

She authored the books Freedom From Debt: Taking Control of Financial Crisis (Guideline Press 2005) and Best Practices For Filing Chapter 13 (Aspatore Press 2010), and published the semi-annual Debtor-Creditor Law Guide. Her treatise on the relationship between community association law and bankruptcy law was published by Matthew Bender.

Most recently, her article “Managing the Interaction Between Bankruptcy and Tax Laws” was featured in Practical Tax Strategies (Thomson Reuters) and her short documentary film Hope can be seen on YouTube.

Education

She graduated cum laude from Tulane University in 1977 with a degree in psychology and was elected to the National Psychology Honor Society. Ms. Frank received her law degree from Northwestern University, where she was awarded first prize in the Fund Legal Writing Competition, a statewide honor.

Legal Associations

Ms. Frank is a member of the Palm Beach County Bar Association, The Florida Bar, National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, the American Bankruptcy Institute, the South Florida Bankruptcy Bar Association, American Bar Association and The American Board of Certification (ABC). She was chairperson of the Palm Beach County Bankruptcy CLE program

As past president of the Palm Beach County Bar Association, North Section, and the North County Business Development Group, Ms. Frank continually seeks community and professional involvement. She served on the Board of Directors of Children’s Hope, and is past president of the Tulane University Gold Coast Alumni Association

Her Personal Interests

Ms. Frank’s extracurricular interests are diverse and varied. She inaugurated the Adult Space Camp program at the Huntsville, Alabama NASA facility. She is the source code author and developer of ACAM, a software system for collection practices. A former professional tennis teacher, Ms. Frank continues to pursue her other interests including sailing, screenwriting, filmmaking, and culinary arts.