Email   krense@renselaw.com

Mr. Rense is a solo practitioner engaged in the representation of federal court and state court-appointed receivers, representation of bankruptcy trustees and, more generally, in the practice of financial and insolvency law.

Mr. Rense has been a partner with two regional law firms that specialized in commercial and financial law, and was formerly an officer with the Enforcement Division of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission, specializing in the prevention of and policing of commodities fraud.

He has represented nearly a dozen bankruptcy trustees in matters pending in the United States Bankruptcy Courts for the Central District of California. He has represented receivers appointed by California Superior Courts in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Ventura counties, and receivers appointed by the United States District Court, Central District of California.

He has represented numerous financial institutions and private parties in litigation before California Superior Courts, Federal Bankruptcy Courts and Federal District Courts, with an emphasis on insolvency and commercial law.

Mr. Rense has appeared as a lecturer and/or panelist on programs dealing with aspects of insolvency, receivership and real property law presented by the California Receivers Forum, the Orange County Bankruptcy Forum, the Orange County Bar Association (Real Property and Commercial Law Sections) and Robert Morris Associates, among other organizations.

Mr. Rense also formerly served as corporate counsel for a Southern California mortgage company and provides legal services regarding the licensing of lenders and the statutory schemes enacted by regulators of the various states governing the making and marketing of loans secured by residential property trust deeds and mortgages throughout the United States.

Mr. Rense was graduated from the University of Southern California Law Center, receiving a Juris Doctor degree in 1980. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism from California State University at Los Angeles, awarded in 1970.