Mr. Lewis received his B.A. in 1968 and his M.A. in 1974 in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned his J.D. in 1979 from the University of California, Davis, School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. In his final year of law school, he clerked for United States Supreme Court Justice the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy, then of the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Since graduating from law school in 1979, Mr. Lewis has practiced bankruptcy and insolvency with Morrison & Foerster, where he became a partner in 1985. His practice covers the entire range of issues and interest in bankruptcy matters, including such areas as structuring transactions to minimize the impact of bankruptcy, representation of creditors such as lenders, landlords and other parties to executory contracts, and sureties, and assisting clients in the purchase of assets or companies in distressed circumstances or bankruptcy. Mr. Lewis' experience includes such diverse areas as telecommunications, agriculture, intellectual property, high technology, energy, construction, asset-based finance and real estate.

Mr. Lewis has developed a special expertise in such important fields as bankruptcy jurisdiction (including bankruptcy consumer class actions), telecommunications, airlines and airports, intellectual property, high tech and biotech, preference or fraudulent conveyance actions and other bankruptcy litigation.

Mr. Lewis is a member of the American Bar Association's Business Bankruptcy Committee and Chapter 11 Subcommittee. He was also a member of the California State Bar Association's Debtor/Creditor Relations and Bankruptcy Committee for a regular three-year term. He has appeared on panels for programs on bankruptcy sponsored by national continuing legal education, trade and professional organizations. From 1992 to 2003, he was a member of the Editorial Board of the American Bankruptcy Institute. Mr. Lewis taught the Bankruptcy course by invitation at the University of California at Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law in the Spring of 2004.

• Cline v. First Nationwide Mortgage Corp. (In re Cline) , 282 B.R. 686 (W.D.Wash. 2002). In this case, the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington overturned a Bankruptcy Court decision that the Bankruptcy Court had subject matter jurisdiction over a class action brought by chapter 7 debtors against our client, First Nationwide Mortgage Corporation.
  
  
• Kerney v.Capital One Financial Corp. (In re Sims), 278 B.R. 457 (Bankr.E.D.Tenn. 2002). In this case, the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee narrowed the scope of a class action brought by chapter 13 debtors and the standing chapter 13 trustee against our client, Capital One Financial Corporation.
  
  
• Leslie Salt Co. v. Marshland Development, Inc. (In re Marshland Development, Inc.), 129 B.R. 626 (Bankr.N.D.Cal. 1991). The Bankruptcy Court ruled that the debtor waived its jury trial right when it removed our client Leslie Salt Company’s prepetition action against the debtor to the debtor’s chapter 11 case.