Professional Bio

James Newell (1984) is a shareholder with Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, where he focuses on bankruptcy and corporate reorganizations. He has extensive experience guiding clients through complex restructurings and regularly lectures on bankruptcy law and legislation for the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Newell earned a JD from Georgetown University (1987). With his wife, Deborah, he supports the Hyde/Political Science Board of Visitors Early Career Professorship, and they have established both a program fund in the Department of Political Science and a director’s fund in the Penn State Democracy Institute.