Marcus Tompkins, Partner

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Direct: (818) 531-0314
mtompkins@ygalaw.com

BAR ADMISSION

  • State Bar of California, 1997

COURT ADMISSIONS

  • U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 1997
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 2006
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, 2011

EDUCATION

  • J.D., Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, 1997
  • B.A., California State University, Long Beach, 1994

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Member, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Sections of the Los Angeles County Bar Association
  • Member, Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum
  • Member, John M. Langston Bar Association of Los Angeles

DISTINCTIONS

  • Judicial Law Clerk, Honorable Mitchel R. Goldberg and Meredith A. Jury, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California, Riverside Division, 2000-01
  • Judicial Extern, Honorable Thomas B. Donovan, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California, Los Angeles Division, 1997
  • Research Editor, Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review, 1996-97
  • Lawyers of Color’s Inaugural Hot List (Western Region, 2013)

PUBLISHED DECISIONS

  • Gottlieb v. Bossio & Assoc. A Prof’l Law Corp. (In re Labib), 2013 Bankr. LEXIS 4661, 2013 WL 5934326 (Bankr. C.D. Cal. 2013).
  • In re Flores, 2013 Bankr. LEXIS 4984, 2013 WL 6186262 (Bankr. C.D. Cal. 2013).
  • Haberbush v. Charles and Dorothy Cummins Family Ltd. Partnership, 139 Cal. App. 4th 1630; 43 Cal. Rptr. 3d 814 (Cal. Ct. App. 2006), review denied, 2006 Cal. LEXIS 10482 (Cal. 2006).

Marcus Tompkins is a general business transactional attorney, with expansive experience on matters involving bankruptcy, insolvency and creditors’ rights. More recently, he has been focusing on the regulatory aspects of the health care industry while representing hospitals and other institutional providers, and physicians.

Marcus received his law degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. Following graduation, he served as a relief judicial law clerk to two bankruptcy judges in the Central District of California – the Honorable Mitchel R. Goldberg (ret.) and the Honorable Meredith A. Jury. Immediately following his clerkship, Marcus went into private practice, working as an attorney for the respected Los Angeles bankruptcy firm of Sulmeyer Kupetz, APC for over twelve years.

Marcus has extensive experience with complex Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases; bankruptcy alternatives such as out-of-court workouts/restructurings of debt, liquidations, and assignments for the benefit of creditors (known as “ABC”s); and related counseling, transactions, and litigation. He has represented a diverse group of clients, including debtors, creditors, bankruptcy trustees, landlords, asset purchasers,parties to contracts with bankrupt debtors, and parties who received avoidable payments or other transfers from bankrupt debtors (including “preferences” and fraudulent transfers).

What Our Clients Say

"The hospitals and faculty practice plan of our academic health sciences center have worked with the attorneys of Yong Gruber Associates, LLP for many years. They deliver high quality legal services at a fair price. We turn to them for experienced and cost-effective healthcare advice and representation. Their responses are always timely, reliable and excellent whether it’s a small vendor agreement, a compliance investigation, hospital-physician joint venture or a $120 Million facility purchase. They save us a lot of money in the process. If you want "large law firm" experience and expertise without the large firm fees, these are the attorneys for you."

-- Kent A. Hansen, General Counsel
Loma Linda University Health

"HealthSmart Management Services Organization, Inc. manages IPAs, medical group practices, and hospital risk pools. We have utilized the services of the attorneys at Yong, Gruber Associates for many years, particularly in the areas of managed healthcare, acquisitions and mergers. We find their attorneys easily accessible and responsive, and their advice always helpful.”

-- Carol D. Houchins, President
HealthSmart Management Services Organization, Inc.

"WesternU has partnered with Yong Gruber Associates, LLP on several projects over the past seven years. We’ve always been pleased and impressed with the quality and expedience of their counsel and services, and cannot recommend them highly enough for their expertise and cost-effectiveness."

-- Jeffery Keating
Executive Director, Public Affairs & Marketing
Western University of Health Sciences

The foregoing endorsements do not constitute a guarantee, warranty, or prediction regarding the outcome of your legal matter.