Mr. Crocker has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America® continuously since 1996, by Milwaukee Magazine as a “Best Lawyer” since 1990, listed in Wisconsin Super Lawyers® since 2005, and by the Milwaukee Business Journal as a “Forty under 40” in 1994. In 2008 and 2009 he was selected as one of the Top 50 Attorneys in Wisconsin by Law and Politics and Milwaukee Magazine. In 2011 he was selected to the Milwaukee Business Journal “Power Book”, a listing of the Milwaukee area’s most influential people. He was selected as Best Lawyers’ 2012 Milwaukee Litigation-Bankruptcy “Lawyer of the Year” and as Best Lawyers’ 2013 Milwaukee Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law “Lawyer of the Year.”

Mr. Crocker is a frequent lecturer on commercial and business matters. He has addressed the State Bar of Wisconsin, the Commercial Law League, the Seventh Circuit Bar Association, and has lectured at Marquette Law School, the University of Wisconsin Law School and the Northwestern University School of Law.

Mr. Crocker is a two term past president of the Milwaukee Bar Association Bankruptcy Section, a past board member of the State Bar of Wisconsin Debtor, Creditor and Insolvency Rights Section and currently a member of the Board of Governors of the 7th Circuit Bar Association and Chair of its Bankruptcy Law and Procedure Committee.

He is an active member of the greater Milwaukee community and is currently a member of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Association of Commerce, the Marquette Law School Board of Advisors, a Past Commodore and the current Judge Advocate of the Milwaukee Yacht Club, a member of the Board of Directors of the Milwaukee Club, a member of the Board of Directors of the Riverside and the Pabst Theaters, a member of the Board of Directors of Discovery World, Ltd. and chair of its Governance Committee, Campaign Treasurer for Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Timothy Dugan, and is a Milwaukee County Court Commissioner.

representative clients

• Emerson Electric Co., St. Louis, MO
  
• BMO Harris Bank N.A., Milwaukee, WI
  
• Johnson Bank, Racine, WI
  
• The Pabst Theater/Riverside Theater/Turner Hall Ballroom, Milwaukee, WI

• “Seventh Circuit Addresses Reasonably Equivalent Value in LBOs,” Feb. 2010, ABI Journal
  
• "Prepayment Provisions in Bankruptcy: Premiums or Penalties?" Feb. 2007, ABI Journal
  
• “Injunctions, Assumptions and Supply Chains: The Automotive Industry under Siege,” Feb. 2006, ABI Journal
  
• “No Small Change: The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005,” July 2005, State Bar of Wisconsin Book
  
• “Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005,” July 2005, Wisconsin Lawyer
  
• “Winning Legal Strategies for Banking Law,” 2005, Inside the Minds™ Book
  

recent presentations

• “The Art of Negotiation in Bankruptcy,” ExecSense Webinar, June 2010
• “Distressed Hospital Restructurings,” Healthcare Financial Management Association, Wisconsin Chapter Annual Meeting, May 2010

experience in representation of various parties in significant bankruptcy cases of public record

• In re KLCG Property, LLC
  Chapter 11 Proceeding, District of Delaware. Lead Debtor’s Counsel.
• In re Nortel Networks Corp.
  Chapter 11 Proceeding, District of Delaware. Representation of a major creditor.
  
• In re Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.
  Chapter 11 Proceeding, District of Delaware. Representation of a major creditor.
  
• In re World Com, Inc.
  Jointly administered Chapter 11, Southern District of New York, Representation of Creditor.
  
• In re New Valley Sand & Gravel Co.
  Chapter 11 Proceeding, Eastern District of Wisconsin, Counsel to Debtor in Possession.
  
• In re Microelectronic Modules Corporation
  Chapter 11 Proceeding, Eastern District of Wisconsin, Counsel to Debtor in Possession.
  
• In re American Tissue, Inc.
  Jointly Administered Chapter 11 Proceeding, District of Delaware. Representation of equipment financier.
  
• In re Belarus Machinery of U.S.A., Inc.
  Chapter 11 Proceeding, Eastern District of Wisconsin. Counsel to the Debtor in Possession.
  
• In re Ace Baking Company Limited Partnership
  Chapter 11 Proceeding, Eastern District of Wisconsin. Representation of major secured creditor.
  
• In re Planet Video, Inc.
  Chapter 11 Proceeding, Eastern District of Wisconsin. Representation of Landlords Creditor Group.
  
• In re Harnischfeger Industries, Inc.
  Chapter 11 Proceeding, District of Delaware. Representation of various secured creditors.
  
• In re Dadco Diversified
  Chapter 11 Proceeding, Western District of Wisconsin. Representation of major secured lender.