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Susan M. "Sue"
Cook

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smcook@wnj.com
Midland
T 989.698.3759
F 989.486.6159

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  • Special Assistant Attorney General for the Michigan Gaming Control Board in the Greektown Casino cases.
  • Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Michigan in the City of Detroit Chapter 9 bankruptcy case.
  • Represented clients in bankruptcy courts across the country.
  • Mediator for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
  • Represented automotive suppliers and customers in bankruptcy courts across the nation.
  • Special Assistant Attorney General for the Michigan Gaming Control Board in the Greektown Casino cases.
  • Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Michigan in the City of Detroit Chapter 9 bankruptcy case.
  • Represented clients in bankruptcy courts across the country.
  • Mediator for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
  • Represented automotive suppliers and customers in bankruptcy courts across the nation.
  • Panelist, “Important Pre-Code SCOTUS Opinions: Vestigial or Vital?,” 2025 Bankruptcy Summer Seminar, July 25, 2025
  • “Virtual Roundtable — Keeping Distressed Suppliers from Being Disruptive Suppliers,” December 5, 2022
  • “East Loves West? East Meets West? East Versus West?” 34th Annual Bankruptcy Section Seminar, Federal Bar Association – Western District of Michigan, Mackinac Island, Michigan, July 30, 2022
  • “Restructuring Debt for Small Businesses and Family Farmers Post COVID-19,” Warner Webinar, July 22, 2020
  • “Feeling the Cash Crunch? How to Manage Distressed Customers in the Uncertainty of COVID-19,” Warner Webinar, May 20, 2020
  • Restructuring and Insolvency Webinar, “Best Practices for Addressing Troubled Customers”
  • Restructuring and Insolvency Webinar, “Financially Distressed Suppliers—Applying Best Practices”
  • American Bankruptcy Institute Central States Bankruptcy Seminar, “Lenders’ Claims, Under Make-Whole Provisions”
  • Federal Bar Association Western Michigan Bankruptcy Section, “New Value Exception”
  • American Bankruptcy Institute Central States Bankruptcy Seminar, “Ethics – New Officer/Insider Compensation Issues and Risks”
  • American Bankruptcy Institute, “Key Employee Compensation Outside the Ordinary Course of Business and the Bankruptcy Code Prior to and After the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act”
  • Institute of Continuing Legal Education, “Tooling in Troubled Times”
  • American Bankruptcy Institute 9th Annual Detroit Consumer Bankruptcy Conference, “The Nuts & Bolts of Chapter 11”
  • Federal Bar Association Western Michigan Bankruptcy Section, “Alternative Dispute Resolution”
  • American Bankruptcy Institute Central States Bankruptcy Seminar, “Distressed Farm Operations – Chapter 12 vs. Chapter 11”
  • Federal Bar Association Western Michigan Bankruptcy Section Seminar, “Intersection of State Court Foreclosures/Receivership and Bankruptcy”
  • American Bankruptcy Institute Central States Bankruptcy Seminar, “Farm/Agribusiness – Distressed farm operations, Chapter 12 vs. Chapter 11”
  • Federal Bar Association Western Bankruptcy Seminar, “Receiverships & Bankruptcy”
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    Susan M. "Sue"
    Cook

    • Of Counsel
    smcook@wnj.com
    Midland
    T 989.698.3759
    F 989.486.6159

    My admin

    Biography|
    Credentials

    industries

    practices

    • Panelist, “Important Pre-Code SCOTUS Opinions: Vestigial or Vital?,” 2025 Bankruptcy Summer Seminar, July 25, 2025
    • “Virtual Roundtable — Keeping Distressed Suppliers from Being Disruptive Suppliers,” December 5, 2022
    • “East Loves West? East Meets West? East Versus West?” 34th Annual Bankruptcy Section Seminar, Federal Bar Association – Western District of Michigan, Mackinac Island, Michigan, July 30, 2022
    • “Restructuring Debt for Small Businesses and Family Farmers Post COVID-19,” Warner Webinar, July 22, 2020
    • “Feeling the Cash Crunch? How to Manage Distressed Customers in the Uncertainty of COVID-19,” Warner Webinar, May 20, 2020
    • Restructuring and Insolvency Webinar, “Best Practices for Addressing Troubled Customers”
    • Restructuring and Insolvency Webinar, “Financially Distressed Suppliers—Applying Best Practices”
    • American Bankruptcy Institute Central States Bankruptcy Seminar, “Lenders’ Claims, Under Make-Whole Provisions”
    • Federal Bar Association Western Michigan Bankruptcy Section, “New Value Exception”
    • American Bankruptcy Institute Central States Bankruptcy Seminar, “Ethics – New Officer/Insider Compensation Issues and Risks”
    • American Bankruptcy Institute, “Key Employee Compensation Outside the Ordinary Course of Business and the Bankruptcy Code Prior to and After the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act”
    • Institute of Continuing Legal Education, “Tooling in Troubled Times”
    • American Bankruptcy Institute 9th Annual Detroit Consumer Bankruptcy Conference, “The Nuts & Bolts of Chapter 11”
    • Federal Bar Association Western Michigan Bankruptcy Section, “Alternative Dispute Resolution”
    • American Bankruptcy Institute Central States Bankruptcy Seminar, “Distressed Farm Operations – Chapter 12 vs. Chapter 11”
    • Federal Bar Association Western Michigan Bankruptcy Section Seminar, “Intersection of State Court Foreclosures/Receivership and Bankruptcy”
    • American Bankruptcy Institute Central States Bankruptcy Seminar, “Farm/Agribusiness – Distressed farm operations, Chapter 12 vs. Chapter 11”
    • Federal Bar Association Western Bankruptcy Seminar, “Receiverships & Bankruptcy”