Camisha L. Simmons

Camisha L. Simmons is the managing member and founder of Simmons Legal PLLC, a law firm dedicated to assisting creditors and other parties in protecting their interests in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, distressed debt workout, litigation and/or financing transaction. 

She founded the firm after practicing in New York and Dallas for close to 8 years as an associate attorney for the global law firms of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, DLA Piper and Norton Rose Fulbright.

Practice areas:  She primarily practices in the areas of creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, restructuring, business transactions and litigation. 

Experience:  She has extensive experience representing companies in chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings and related litigation and restructuring matters.

Education:  JD, magna cum laude, Texas Tech University; MBA, Texas Tech University; MEd, Counseling & Personnel Services, University of Maryland, College Park; BBA, Campbell University

Admissions:  She is admitted to practice before the bars of the states of Texas and New York. 

In 2018, she was named as one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in Dallas by the Texas Diversity Council.  In 2013, Texas Lawyer named her to its inaugural list of Legal Leaders on the Rise.  She has also been named a Texas Rising Star and Texas Super Lawyer for three consecutive years and a New York Metro Rising Star and New York Metro Super Lawyer by SuperLawyers®, a Thomson Reuters rating service. Additionally, in 2015, the National Black Lawyers named her a “Top 40 Under 40” attorney.

She has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of North Texas College of Law and is a frequent author and speaker on various bankruptcy, restructuring, finance and litigation topics.  She has also served as a faculty member for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) Building Trial skills course.  

She is well published (over 35 articles) in various online and print journals and is a coordinating editor of the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal. Additionally, she is a member of the American Bar Association, Dallas Bar Association, and American Bankruptcy Institute, among other professional organization.  She serves on the Commercial and Regulatory Committee for the American Bankruptcy Institute.

From 2006-2007, Ms. Simmons was a law clerk to the Honorable Mary F. Walrath, Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware.

Prior to her legal career, she served on active duty in the United States Army from 1999 to 2003.