Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Mark G. Stingley of Bryan Cave LLP (Kansas City, Mo.) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 1988, Stingley co-chairs ABI’s Midwest Bankruptcy Conference, is a frequent speaker at ABI programs, has written articles for the ABI Journal and has been an active member of ABI’s Business Reorganization and Secured Credit committees. He serves on the Executory Contracts Committee for the ABI Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11. He will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors. Stingley is a member of the Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights and Commercial Litigation Client Service Groups at Bryan Cave LLP in its Kansas City, Mo., office. He also serves as litigation coordinator of its Commercial Litigation Client Service Group. Stingley represents lending institutions in the areas of litigation and insolvency, as well as debtors in workout and bankruptcy-related matters. In addition, he has represented a number of commercial and lending clients in real estate and commercial litigation cases in both state and federal courts in several jurisdictions. Stingley was previously an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law and co-authored a chapter on composition agreements in Thomson West’s upcoming book Non-Bankruptcy Alternatives. Named a “Super Lawyer” in Missouri, he is also annually listed in Kansas City’s Best of the Bar and in the Best Lawyers in America. He received his J.D. from University of Missouri at Kansas City and his B.S. from William Jewell College. The complete list of directors and officers is available at http://go.abi.org/board. ### ABI is the largest multi-disciplinary, nonpartisan organization dedicated to research and education on matters related to insolvency. ABI was founded in 1982 to provide Congress and the public with unbiased analysis of bankruptcy issues. The ABI membership includes more than 13,000 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information. For additional information on ABI, visit www.abiworld.org. For additional conference information, visit http://www.abiworld.org/conferences.html.