Anna Haugen

Anna practices with the restructuring and insolvency legal team and handles civil litigation stemming from business reorganizations, liquidations, financial restructuring, foreclosures as well as adversary proceeding practice in bankruptcy. Her practice focuses on representing financial institutions and other secured and unsecured creditors before the courts.

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Prior to private practice Anna served as a term law clerk to the Honorable Jerry A. Funk of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida and as a term law clerk to the Honorable Joseph Lewis Jr. of the Florida First District Court of Appeal. Anna also interned for the Honorable Chief Judge Stephan P. Mickle of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

While in law school, Anna served as an intern for the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, the Certified Legal Intern at the Public Defender Office for the Eighth Judicial Circuit and as an intern at the Office of the State Attorney for the Eighth Judicial Circuit.

Practices

Restructuring & Insolvency

Admissions

Florida

Languages

Polish

Insights

Co-author, Tax Certificate Sale and § 362 Automatic Stay Implications, ABI Journal, September 2018
Co-author, "Nondebtor Transfers Fall Outside the Scope of the Delaware UFTA", ABI Journal, May 2018
Co-author, "Valuation Conundrums in Crammed-Down Chapter 11 Business Reorganization Cases", ABI Journal, November 2017
Co-author, "Re-“Structuring” Dismissal Flexibility", American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, May 2017
Co-author, "Small Business Deadlines", ABI Journal, March 2017
Co-author, Tardiness in Filing an Income Tax Return Leads to Interplay Between Bankruptcy and Tax Law Under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(1)(B), ABI Bankr. Taxation Committee Newsletter, August 2016
Co-author, Homeward Bound through the Wild, Wild South: The Application of Florida’s Wild Card Exemption on Homestead Property in Bankruptcy, 80 FLA. BAR. J. NO. 10, at 26, December 2015
Co-author, The Proverbial Right-Without-a-Remedy Dilemma to Effective Counsel in Florida Termination of Parental Rights Proceedings, 16 FLA. COASTAL L. REV. 189, Spring 2015
Co-author, Necessity of a Change in Circumstances for Post-confirmation Modification of Chapter 13 Plan, AM. BANKR. INST. / Consumer Bankruptcy Committee Newsletter, November 2014
Co-author, UE Banking Union - New Framework for the Future Global Financial Crisis, XXXIII, AM. BANKR. INST. J. NO. 10, at 32 , October 2014
Co-author, Goodbye Tension, Hello Pension; Right to 401(k) Voluntary Contributions vs. Obligation to Repay Dilemma in Chapter 7 Cases, AM. BANKR. INST. / Consumer Bankruptcy Committee Newsletter, August 2014
Co-author, Two Popular Schools of Thought on Interpretation of 11 U.S.C. § 1325(b), XXXIII, AM. BANKR. INST. J. No. 6, at 50, June 2014
Co-author, Should [11 U.S.C.] § 707(b) Apply in Chapter 7 Cases Converted from Chapter 13, XXXIII, AM. BANKR. INST. J. No. 4, at 48, April 2014
Co-author, Broadening Horizons: The Unnecessary Limitations of Florida’s Collateral Crimes Jury Instructions, 87 FLA. BAR J. NO. 10, at 20 , December 2013

Education

University of Florida Levin College of Law, JD, cum laude, Dean’s List, Delta Epsilon Iota, Journal of Law and Public Policy, 2010
University of Florida Levin College of Law, LLM, cum laude, 2007
University of Warsaw, Master in Law, cum laude, 2006

Affiliations

Member, Federal Bar Association

Member, Jacksonville Bankruptcy Bar Association

General Board Member, Middle District of Florida Pro Se Bankruptcy Legal Assistance Clinic

Co-founder and General Board Member, The Excellence in Florida Judicial Writing Awards

Events

Panelist, "Assessing Counsel’s Performance in Termination of Parental Rights Cases: The Right, The Standard, The Procedure and the Best Interest of Children, The Florida Bar Public Interest Law Section," The Florida Bar Annual Meeting, June 26, 2015

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