Chrisandrea L. Turner

Practice Areas

Bankruptcy

Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy

Creditors' Rights, Out-of-Court Workouts & Commercial Litigation

Health Care - Bankruptcy & Restructuring

Career

Chrisandrea (Chrissie) Turner is a bankruptcy and creditors' rights litigator focusing on corporate bankruptcy and restructuring and adversary proceeding defense. She regularly represents lenders, trade creditors, lessors and lessees, sureties, and large creditors in Chapter 11 matters and complex bankruptcies around the country. Her litigation practice includes receiverships, preferential and fraudulent transfer defense in bankruptcies, nondischarge of debt adversaries and foreclosure. Chrissie's discipline of practice touches areas beyond bankruptcy, including environmental actions, healthcare matters, and corporate transactions. Working closely with multiple Stites service groups, Chrissie is able to advise our clients on issues they face both inside and out of creditor-oriented matters. She is Chair of the firm's Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy Service Group.

Professional Memberships

American Bankruptcy Institute

American Bar Association

Kentucky Bar Association

Fayette County Bar Association

Women Lawyers Association

Leadership Kentucky, Class of 2013; Leadership Kentucky Alumni Association

International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation

Publications

"Commercial Real Estate: A Looming Crisis of Workouts, Foreclosures, and Bankruptcies," Kentucky Bar Association Annual Convention, Northern Kentucky Convention Center, May 9, 2024

"Significant Bankruptcy Issue Pending Before U.S. Supreme Court," Stites & Harbison Client Alert, April 4, 2024

"Local Bankruptcy Rules: Kentucky (W.D. Ky.)," with Brian R. Pollock, Practical Law Practice Note, Thomson Reuters, June 2023

"Local Bankruptcy Rules: Kentucky (E.D. KY)," with Brian R. Pollock, Practical Law Practice Note, Thomson Reuters, August 2022

"Local Bankruptcy Rules: Kentucky (W.D. Ky.)," with Brian R. Pollock, Thomson Reuters Practical Law, May 2022

Personal

Best Lawyers in America®: Bankruptcy & Creditor-Debtor Rights/Insolvency & Reorganization Law; Commercial Litigation; Litigation - Bankruptcy (2018-25)

University of Kentucky College of Law, J.D., cum laude and Order of the Coif, 1998

University of Kentucky, B.A., Political Science, 1994