About me
Kara S. Rescia is a principal of Rescia Vaillancourt, P.C. with offices in Enfield, Connecticut and Northampton, Massachusetts, focusing on consumer and business bankruptcy and alternatives and small business representation. She is a 1988 graduate of the University of Southern Maine and a 1992 graduate of Western New England University School of Law. Since 1992, Attorney Rescia has concentrated her practice in bankruptcy, representing both debtors and creditors in business and consumer cases, as well as business and corporate law, including commercial financing and litigation. She is admitted to the bars for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Connecticut and the U.S. District Court for the Districts of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Since 2010 and currently Attorney Rescia is a Chapter 7 panel trustee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Connecticut. She also serves as a Sub V panel trustee and a Chapter 12 trustee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Connecticut. Attorney Rescia is on the Executive Committee of the Connecticut Bar Association Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section, a past Chair of the Bankruptcy Section of the Hampden County Bar Associations and is a member of the Hampden and Hampshire County Bar Associations, the Connecticut Bar Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees and the International Women’s Insolvency Reorganization Confederation, New England and Connecticut Networks. She has been on the faculty of many seminars and has participated in numerous continuing legal education programs in the area of bankruptcy law. Attorney Rescia is also currently an adjunct professor at Quinnipiac University School of Law teaching a class in Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights.
