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Keyashia Willis

Associate

Overview

Biography

Keyashia concentrates her practice on restructuring, bankruptcy, and creditors’ rights and commercial litigation matters. She has gained wide-ranging experience through judicial clerkships in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York and the Northern District of Illinois, as a staff attorney for a not-for-profit legal services organization, a law clerk, and a summer associate at Barclay Damon.

Bar Associations

  • Central New York Bankruptcy Bar Association, Trustee
  • Central New York Women's Bar Association, Board of Directors
  • Northern District of New York Federal Court Bar Association

Selected Memberships & Affiliations

  • Barclay Damon’s Women’s Forum
  • Syracuse University College of Law, Black Law Students Association, Former President and Vice President
  • Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity International, Member
     
Experience

Prior Experience

  • Legal Services of Central New York, Staff Attorney
  • Legal Services of Central New York, Pro Bono Scholar Intern
  • Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC, Law Clerk
  • Barclay Damon LLP, Summer Associate
Judicial Clerkships
  • US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York, Chief Judge Wendy A. Kinsella
  • US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Judge LaShonda A. Hunt

Selected Honors

  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 2026; Litigation – Bankruptcy, 2026
  • New York State Bar Association, Empire State Counsel, 2023, 2024
  • Syracuse University College of Law, Travis H.D. Lewin Advocacy Honor Society, Appellate and Trial Divisions, 2020–2022
  • Syracuse University College of Law, Travis H.D. Lewin Advocacy Honor Society, Trial Team, 2021–2022
  • Syracuse University College of Law, Pro Bono Scholar, 2021–2022

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