MYRON M. SHEINFELD, is senior counsel at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, Feld LLP in Houston, Texas, and has been an Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Texas Law School from 1974-1991.
He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court; the United States Courts of Appeals, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits and the United States District Court, Northern, Southern, and Western Districts of Texas. Mr. Sheinfeld received his B.A. from Tulane University in 1951, Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. from the University of Michigan in 1954.
Mr. Sheinfeld has authored the following: Tax Problems of Business in Reorganization and Arrangement, 13 Houston Law Review (March 1976); Business Reorganization Under the Bankruptcy Code (West 1980); Analysis of the Tax Provisions of Bankruptcy Code and the Bankruptcy Tax Act of 1980, 55 Am Bky. Law Journal (Spring 1981); Bankruptcy Tax Act of 1980 and Its Effect on Real Estate, 9 Journal of Real Estate Taxation (Fall 1981). He is a Board Member for Collier on Bankruptcy, 15th Edition Revised and Collier Bankruptcy Practice Guide.
Mr. Sheinfeld is a member of the following: National Bankruptcy Conference; American College of Bankruptcy, (former Vice President and Director), Houston (Chairman, Creditors' Rights Committee, 1969) and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas (Director, 1969-72; Secretary, Tax Section 1971; Chairman, Corporation, Business and Banking Law Section, 1980-81); Member, American Bar Foundation, Texas Bar Foundation; Chairman, Bankruptcy Advisory Commission, Texas (1974-1999): Member, Texas Board of Legal Specialization; and Member, ABA Committee on Specialization.
Mr. Sheinfeld has also lectured variously for the University of Texas Annual Bankruptcy Institute, SMU Annual Bankruptcy Conference and numerous bankruptcy programs, seminars and conferences for judges and practitioners throughout the United States. He is a Member, Board of Editors, The Practical Lawyer ALI-ABA and a Trustee of the Third Avenue Trust and a Director of NABORS Industries, Inc.