DAVID J. PASTERNAK
Pasternak, Pasternak & Patton
A Law Coproration
1875 Century Park East, Ste. 2200
Los Angeles, CA 90067-2523
Tel: 310-553-1500
Fax: 310-553-1540
Email: djp@paslaw.com


David Pasternak is a member of Pasternak, Pasternak & Patton, A Law Corporation in Century City. Since 1982, he has been appointed as a state and federal court receiver, provisional director, partition referee, special master, and Bankruptcy Court Custodian hundreds of times, and has represented and advised other receivers and provisional directors in hundreds of other cases. His receivership appointments include regulatory, rents-and-profits, liquidation, marital dissolution, and collection of judgment receiverships.

As a receiver, he has operated commercial, residential and industrial properties throughout Southern California, including the Long Beach World Trade Center, other office buildings, apartment complexes, and a Big Bear resort facility. His business appointments include escrow companies, a car wash, a hospital, aged care facilities, medical offices, clothing and other manufacturers, a website design and maintenance business, and a wide variety of other retail and service businesses. He also has served as a health and safety code receiver for a number of Southern California cities, and has collected medical and other accounts receivable for judgment debtors and others. He has served as a Receiver many times at the request of the California Attorney General and the California Department of Corporations.

He served as the Receiver of a holding company that owned both Wickes Furniture Company and one of its major suppliers. As such, he served as a member of the Board of Directors of both Wickes and its related company until he sold Wickes and most of the assets of its sister company. He distributed over $53 million in that receivership estate.

He currently serves as the federal court Receiver in a $150 million mortgage fraud case in which he has possessed some 85 expensive homes in California and Wyoming, as well as an array of other assets, including fine wines, art, jewelry, home furnishings, firearms, and various interests in high-end West Los Angeles home developments. He has sold most of those assets.

He also served at the request of the California Attorney General's Office as the Receiver of California Research and Assistance Fund, the multi-million dollar non-profit benefit corporation established through insurance company contributions after the Northridge earthquake.

He is a past President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, a former chair of its Litigation Section, and a former President of its Barristers Section. He has chaired many committees for the American Bar Association, Los Angeles County Bar Association, and Beverly Hills Bar Association, among others. He is a founding Co-Chair of what is now the Los Angeles/Orange County branch of the California Receivers Forum, and a member of its Board of Directors. He regularly writes and speaks about receivership practice. He also has served on a number of California Judicial Council and Los Angeles Superior Court committees, including some bench/bar committees that revised the Los Angeles Superior Court rules. He also has served as a member of the California Judicial Council and an attorney delegate to the 9th Circuit Judicial Conference.