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Practice
Areas

  • Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring
  • Restructuring

BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS

  • Massachusetts
  • U.S. District Court of Massachusetts
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Professional involvement

  • Co-Chair, Bankruptcy Law Section, Boston Bar Association September 2020-present
  • Member, Boston Bar Association Bankruptcy Section COVID-19 Standing Committee June 2020-present
  • Member, United States Bankruptcy Court Local Rules Committee January 2015-present
  • Board Member, International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation - New England Network, January 2017 - December 2021
  • Co-Chair, Bankruptcy Education Subcommittee, Boston Bar Association, September 2019-August 2020
  • Co-Chair, Consumer Bankruptcy Committee, Boston Bar Association; June 2017-August 2019
  • Member. American Bankruptcy Institute
  • Member, Turnaround Management Association

HONORS

  • Super Lawyers for Business Bankruptcy 2022
  • 2021, and 2022 Top Lawyers, Boston Magazine
  • Best Lawyers in America© in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 -- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
  • 2020 Top Woman of the Law Honoree -- Massachusetts Lawyers’ Weekly
  • Martindale-Hubbell Peer and Judicial Review Rating: AV® Preeminent

Speaking
Engagements

  • Ms. Cruickshank is a regular speaker at continuing legal education seminars, including those sponsored by the Boston Bar Association and Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education.

Civic/Community
Memberships

  • Ms. Cruickshank has volunteered as a Big Sister in the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston since 2007, and her Little Sister has accompanied her to oral argument before the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Videos

  • Protecting Assets

Related News
& Articles

  • Eleven Murphy & King PC, Attorneys Named to 2022 Massachusetts Super Lawyers, One Named to Massachusetts Rising Stars
  • Murphy & King Receives Tier 1 Placement in 2022 IFLR1000 Firm Rankings for Restructuring and Insolvency
  • Eleven Murphy & King Attorneys Recognized in Best Lawyers in America© 2023
  • 16 Murphy & King Attorneys Recognized as 2021 Top Lawyers in Boston Magazine
  • Murphy & King Receives National and Regional Recognition in 2022 U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” Rankings for Eleventh Consecutive Year
  • Murphy & King Received Tier 1 Placement in 2021 IFLR1000 Firm Rankings for Restructuring and Insolvency
  • Nine Murphy & King Attorneys Recognized in Best Lawyers in America© 2022
  • Murphy & King’s Andrew G. Lizotte to Speak at BBA’s 31st Annual Bankruptcy Bench Meets Bar Conference
  • Murphy & King Shareholder Kathleen Cruickshank to Co-Moderate IWIRC New England Panel
  • Murphy & King Shareholder Kathleen R. Cruickshank Recognized in 2021 Best Lawyers “Women in the Law” Business Edition
  • Murphy & King Shareholder Kathleen Cruickshank Named a “Top Woman of Law” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
  • Murphy & King Shareholder Kathleen Cruickshank Named Section Co-chair for Bankruptcy Law Committee of Boston Bar Association
  • Murphy & King attorneys helping the BBA.
  • Shareholder Kathleen Cruickshank named to COVID-19 standing committee of the Boston Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Section.
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  • Murphy & King Named Bankruptcy Law Firm of the Year in Massachusetts
Kathleen R. Cruickshank

Kathleen R. Cruickshank

Shareholder Boston kcruickshank@murphyking.com 617 226-3404
EDUCATION
  • Brown University B.S., 1984
  • Boston University School of Law J.D., 1987

Ms. Cruickshank focuses her practice on representing debtors, trustees and creditors in complex Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 cases and representing debtors in non-bankruptcy workouts. Ms. Cruickshank appears regularly in the United States Bankruptcy Court, represents plaintiffs and defendants in litigation arising in bankruptcy proceedings, and has represented bankruptcy trustees before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the Alcoholic Beverages and Control Commission.

Ms. Cruickshank was formerly an attorney with the Office of the United States Trustee, United States Department of Justice for the Districts of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, and was the Assistant United States Trustee in the San Jose Office of the United States Trustee for the Northern District of California. Prior to her 10 years of service with the United States Department of Justice, Ms. Cruickshank represented debtors and creditors in bankruptcy matters. Ms. Cruickshank also served as a law clerk for the United States Trustee for the District of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.

Representative Engagements

  • Counsel to individual Chapter 11 debtors in complex reorganizations involving, among other things, commercial real estate and manufacturing.
  • Counsel to Chapter 7 trustees in complex corporate and consumer debtor cases including with respect to related litigation involving, among other things, debt subordinations, avoidance of secured claims, actions to impose a constructive and/or resulting trusts, marshaling actions, and preference and fraudulent transfer avoidance actions.
  • Counsel to creditors and landlords in large out-of-state Chapter 11 cases in the apparel industry.
  • Counsel to Chapter 7 trustees before the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
  • Counsel to corporate debtors in Chapter 11 proceedings, including companies engaged in the real estate, telecommunications, restaurant and apparel industries.
  • Representation of defendants in actions in which they have been sued by the estate representative in a bankruptcy case.
  • Counsel to publicly-held corporations in Chapter 11 proceedings and successful reorganizations, both in Massachusetts and Delaware.
  • Representation of Committee of Unsecured Creditors in Chapter 11 bankruptcies.


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