Dana L. Robbins-Boehner

DANA is partner-eligible with Burr & Forman LLP in Tampa, Fla., where she serves in its Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy Practice Group. She represents a diverse array of clients, including financial institutions, municipalities, real estate developers, title insurance groups and retail shopping centers, in commercial bankruptcy cases. She also is experienced in complex business litigation, appeals and general civil litigation. Her practice includes all aspects of corporate restructuring, bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings, including § 363 sales, and preference and fraudulent transfer litigation. Previously, she clerked for Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Caryl E. Delano for the Middle District of Florida, where she assisted with complex bankruptcy and state law issues. She has also served as a trial court staff attorney in the Office of Court Counsel for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida.

Dana serves as the Bankruptcy Committee chair for the Tampa Bay Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, the Tampa director for the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, and a board member for the Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar Association. In addition, she serves on the advisory board for ABI’s Alexander L. Paskay Memorial Bankruptcy Seminar, co-sponsored by Stetson University School of Law, and as the Newsletter Editor for ABI’s Bankruptcy Litigation Committee. She is also member of the Class of 2024 Next Generation Program for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. She is committed to enhancing access to justice for pro se debtors in the Middle District of Florida, and she serves as the president of the Middle District of Florida Pro Se Assistance Clinic and as executive director for the Bankruptcy Law Educational Series Foundation. She is a Burr & Forman, LLP Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy Practice Group Award Recipient for 2024 and received the 2023 Emerging Leader award from IWIRC’s Florida Chapter. In addition, she has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America as one of its “Ones to Watch” for Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law since 2021 and for Litigation-Banking and Finance in 2023, and she was listed as a Florida Super Lawyers “Rising Star” from 2021-23. In addition, ABI selected one of her articles for its 2019 Best of the ABI compendium, and she was awarded for CLE Program of the Year by the J. Clifford Cheatwood Inn of Court in 2019.

Dana endeavors to promote diversity and inclusion within the insolvency profession and the advancement of diverse individuals in the insolvency community and the bankruptcy bench. Through her involvement with the Federal Bar Association, she has secured two diversity grants to sponsor national diversity events in Tampa hosted by the Judicial Conference Committees on the Administration of the Bankruptcy System and Magistrate Judges System, titled, “Roadways to the Bench: Who, Me? A Bankruptcy or Magistrate Judge?” The events were designed to further the goal of casting a wide net to attract the broadest pool of applicants to serve as federal judges, and their goal is one that resonates deeply with her: creating a pathway to the bankruptcy bench. She successfully launched the programs to an overwhelmingly positive response from panelists, roundtable members and attendees.