TODD FREALY is a Partner at LEVENE, NEALE, BENDER, YOO & GOLUBCHIK, L.L.P. Since joining the firm in January 2010, Mr. Frealy has focused his practice on representing chapter 7 trustees in litigation to recover and liquidate estate assets, including prosecution of avoidance actions under federal and state law. In July 2010, Mr. Frealy was appointed to the panel of chapter 7 trustees for the Riverside Division of the Central District of California. Mr. Frealy currently serves as a chapter 11 trustee and chapter 7 trustee in cases pending in the Central District of California.

Mr. Frealy is a graduate of Southwestern University School of Law (J.D. 1998) and the University of California, Los Angeles (B.A. 1995). During law school, he served as an extern to the Honorable Mitchel R. Goldberg and Honorable Arthur M. Greenwald, U.S. Bankruptcy Judges for the Central District of California. After law school, Mr. Frealy served as the judicial law clerk to the Honorable David N. Naugle, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, Central District of California, Riverside Division (1998-2000). Mr. Frealy is a member of the Inland Empire and  Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forums. Mr. Frealy was a member of the Board of Directors for the Inland Empire Bankruptcy Forum from 2009 through 2014, and served as its President in 2012. Mr. Frealy also served as a member of the Southwestern University School of Law Alumni Board of Directors from September 2006 to June 2009. Mr. Frealy was recognized as a “Super Lawyer” by Super Lawyers magazine in 2022 and 2023.

Mr. Frealy is a frequent speaker on bankruptcy issues, including: Southwestern Law Review’s symposium: “Bankruptcy in the New Millennium,” February 2010; Inland Empire Bankruptcy Forum: “Disclosed and Undisclosed Assets In Chapter 7,” April 2014; Inland Empire Bankruptcy Forum: “Hot Topics In Consumer Chapter 7 Proceedings,” November 2014; Inland Empire Bankruptcy Forum: “An Evening With The Trustees,” April 2015; Riverside County Bar Association: “What Every Non-Bankruptcy Lawyer Should Know About Bankruptcy (And Should Be Afraid Not To Ask),” December 2015; Inland Empire Bankruptcy Forum: “An Evening With The Trustees,” March 2016; Annual Chapter 7 Trustee Program: “Cryptocurrency-Mining For Assets In Bankruptcy Cases,” June 27, 2019; Southwestern Law School’s “Lunch and Learn” program on bankruptcy practice, March 14, 2022; Annual Chapter 7 Trustee Program: “Finding and Tracing Cryptocurrency” and “Exemptions, Carve-Outs and Short Sales,” March 28, 2023.

He was admitted to the California Bar in 1998, and is admitted to the Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California.