Douglas Henry Kraft

Douglas H. Kraft was born in Bremerton, Washington on August 13, 1952. He was admitted to the California State Bar in 1991. His education includes: B.B.A. degree in 1974, and M.B.A. degree in 1979, at Loyola University in Los Angeles, California; J.D. degree, with Great Distinction, in 1991, at McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. While continuing to work in the banking industry and attending law school at night, he received numerous academic awards including Order of the Coif, American Jurisprudence Awards for Torts, Bankruptcy, Negotiable Instruments, and Personal Property Finance, and the Corpus Juris Secundum Award, awarded by the faculty for significant contributions to legal scholarship. He practices in the areas of creditors rights, commercial and real estate loan documentation, commercial litigation, bankruptcy, real estate and collections.

Doug was a member of the Insolvency Law Committee (2005-2008) and the Uniform Commercial Code Committee (2000-2003) of the Business Law Section of the California State Bar. In May of 2002, Doug was a speaker at the Annual Spring Meeting of the Business Law Section and the Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar as part of the panel presenting a program entitled "Enforcement of Rights Under the U.C.C. Revised Article 9." In May 2001, Doug was also a speaker on the panel presenting the Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) continuing legal education program entitled "Taking and Enforcing Security Interests in Personal Property" (Revised Article 9). Doug also made a presentation to the Sacramento Chapter of the Risk Management Association (RMA) entitled "What Every Loan Officer Should Know About Revised Article 9."

Doug has also presented several programs dealing with real property financing and other loan documentation and enforcement issues. Doug has been a speaker on several CEB continuing education programs involving Real Property Financing, the latest being a program presented in January of 2012, entitled "The Impact of Bankruptcy on Real Property Transaction". Doug and Marty have presented a program for Lorman Education Services entitled "Commercial Real Estate Loan Documentation in California". Doug was a panelist at the Sacramento Valley Bankruptcy Forum Summer 2008 Program, dealing with real property foreclosure issues, and Summer 2010 Program, dealing with issues driving the lender’s decisions with problem loans. Doug also made a presentation to the Sacramento Valley Chapter of RMA entitled "Selected Leasing Issues in Real Estate Lending." In addition, Doug has made presentations to the Central Valley Chapter of RMA entitled "Tales From the Trenches: Oops! Thing We Should Have Thought of Before This Loan Became a Problem", and "Issues Facing Lenders in Agricultural Loan Documentation and Workouts" and "Don’t Let Your Borrower Get Away" dealing primarily with loan documentation and enforcement issues. Doug has also made presentations to Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section of the Sacramento County Bar Association entitled "What’s Driving the Bank That’s Driving You Crazy" and "What’s Driving the Bank That’s Driving You Crazy: Part Deux." Doug is an AV Preeminent Rated attorney through Martindale Hubbell.