Please join us in the bankruptcy courtroom in Spartanburg for lunch with the new Clerk of Court, Laura Austin, on Thursday November 14 at noon. Sandwiches will be provided along with practice tips from the bankruptcy court team. You will also have the opportunity to visit with court employees and chambers staff. Please r.s.v.p. by November 12 to reggie_reinovsky@scb.uscourts.gov so we will have enough food for everyone. If you have any questions or topics that you would like for us to address that day, include that information with your response. Remember that you must present a picture I.D. at the door and security screening is required before you will be admitted. Members of the bar and all staff are welcome.
About the clerk: Laura earned her B.A. in Political Science from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, and continued to law school at Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University, earning a J.D. in 1998. She began her career with the federal court system in 2001 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, where she served as a staff attorney and worked in the clerk’s office. In 2005, she moved to a senior staff attorney position in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia and in 2011 Laura began her service in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware as the Director of Operations. Laura and her family relocated to Columbia when she was named clerk in September of 2013.