Beverly Weiss Manne, Chair of the firm’s Insolvency & Creditors’ Rights Department, represents commercial lending and leasing clients in troubled credit situations, including workout, loan restructurings, forbearance, enforcement actions and bankruptcy and reorganization proceedings. Ms. Manne has represented clients in major bankruptcy cases including, locally, Le-Natures, Global Industrial Technologies, NARCO, Brockway Pressed Metals, AHERF, Forman Industries, Inc., and J&L Structural Steel and nationally in matters including Fleming, Wheeling-Pitt Steel, LTV, K-Mart, Austin, Georgetown Steel, National Steel, Birmingham Steel, CSC and Bethlehem Steel.

Beverly obtained her undergraduate degree, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Pittsburgh as well as her J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1981. She was named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer in Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights Category for 2006 and 2007 and was selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2007, and 2008 in the Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights’ Law category.

Beverly was President of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association from 2004 through 2007 and currently is a Director on the Board of Directors for TMA International as well as the Pittsburgh Chapter of the TMA. Beverly is also a member of the American, Pennsylvania and Allegheny County Bar Associations, American Bankruptcy Institute, International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, and has served as the Chair of the Allegheny County Bar Association Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section. She also served as a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Banking Section's Insolvency Law Task Force and the UCC Article 9 Revisions Task Force which was responsible for the adoption of Revised Article 9 in Pennsylvania.

Beverly is the author of Chapter 2, "Nonbankruptcy Options: Assignments, Compositions and Receiverships" of Chapter 11 Theory and Practice, LRP Publications, Horsham, Pennsylvania, as well as the author of "Comparative Analysis with the U.S. Law," Romania - The Insolvency System, International Insolvency Institute, Alexandria, Virginia 1999. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and teaches the courses "Commercial Paper and Banking: Payment Systems" and "Secured Transactions". She also lectures frequently on bankruptcy, banking, turnaround and collection issues, creditors’ rights, mechanics liens, and has been a panelist at the TMA Great Lakes Regional Conference and was a panelist at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges in Chicago, Illinois.

Prior to joining the firm, Beverly was Assistant Counsel at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, representing its lending agencies in all aspects of business, industrial, agricultural, housing (504) and agricultural loans made and guaranteed by the Farmers Home Administration and Commodity Credit Corporation.