Martina Slocomb

Martina A. Slocomb is an associate attorney at Marshack Hays LLP.  Her practice involves a wide range of Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, and business and civil litigation matters.

Ms. Slocomb’s bankruptcy experience includes representing Chapter 7 trustees in locating and administering estate assets, litigating actions against debtors including nondischargeability and asset recovery actions, and litigating actions against third party recipients of fraudulent and preferential transfers.  Ms. Slocomb has represented secured and unsecured creditors who have claims against individuals and corporations that have filed for bankruptcy, including lenders, landlords, and trade creditors.  She regularly represents creditors in adversary actions to have the debts owed to them determined nondischargeable in a debtor’s bankruptcy.  Ms. Slocomb has also represented multiple Chapter 11 debtors and creditors’ committees.

Ms. Slocomb’s civil litigation experience includes obtaining pre-judgment remedies; enforcing judgments; defending borrowers sued for judicial foreclosure and to enforce personal guaranties; seeking appointment of receivers for creditors; representing receivers in state court actions in which they had been appointed; defending developers, banks, and other parties who have been sued for foreclosure of mechanic’s liens and enforcement of stop notice claims; seeking unlawful detainer judgments on behalf of landlords and lenders; and handling a variety of other civil litigation matters.

Ms. Slocomb is admitted to practice law in California and Montana and is admitted to the United States District Courts for the Central, Southern, and Eastern Districts of California.  She is member of the Orange County Bar Association, the Orange County Bankruptcy Forum, and the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Ms. Slocomb graduated from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs and Foreign Languages with an emphasis in Spanish and French.  She received her J.D. from the University of Southern California in 2007.  While at USC, Ms. Slocomb was the Managing Editor of the Review of Law & Social Justice.  In 2007 she served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Dale S. Fischer of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.