In Lauraโs free time, you can find her on the tennis court, cheering on her son at a baseball game or volunteering in the Chattanooga community.
Laura Ketcham, Chair of the firm’s Commercial Department, focuses her practice in the areas of bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, commercial finance and leasing, and providing general business counsel. She has represented various stakeholders in commercial bankruptcy cases across the country. She has also represented parties in a variety of finance transactions, office and medical office leases, loan workouts, foreclosures, receiverships, lien priority disputes, judgment enforcement actions, lawsuits asserting the breach of loan documents, distressed asset sales and preferential transfer cases.
- Represent local and regional banks and other creditors in bankruptcy, loan workout, foreclosure and litigation matters.
- Manage the leasing teams for several firm clients.
- Ten years’ experience serving as bankruptcy counsel for an international floorplan lender and a chemical manufacturing company.
- Represented a real estate company in over thirty retail bankruptcy cases.
- Completed secondees with two lending divisions of a Fortune 100 company.
- J.D., Vanderbilt University Law School, 2005
- B.A., magna cum laude, Political Science and Economics, Vanderbilt University, 2002
Bar Admissions
- Tennessee
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court, Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Tennessee
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
Clerkships
Certifications
Accolades
- The Best Lawyers in America® - Commercial Transactions / UCC Law, since 2025
- Chattanooga Bar Foundation - Fellow, 2024
- Mid-South Super Lawyers® - Rising Stars, 2014-2019
- Leadership Chattanooga - Graduate, Class of 2012
Memberships
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Chattanooga Bar Association, Bankruptcy Law Section
- Federal Bar Association
- Tennessee Bar Association, Bankruptcy Law Section Executive Council - Past Chair
- American Inns of Court, Justices Ray L. Brock Jr. and Robert E. Cooper Chapter - Former Member
- Mid-South Commercial Law Institute Board of Directors
Community
- Chattanooga Friends - Past President
- CHI Memorial Foundation - Board of Directors, Treasurer
- Chattanooga Rotary - Member
- Delta Delta Delta, Alumnae Association
- Junior League of Chattanooga - Past President
- Leadership Chattanooga, Alumni Association
- Mars Hill Presbyterian Church - Past Clerk of Session
- St. Peter’s Episcopal School - Past Chair of Board of Trustees
- Vanderbilt Alumni - Volunteer
In-Depth
news
alerts
Sorry, No posts.
event
publications
Sorry, No posts.
