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Mark Cronin
Mark A. Cronin practices primarily in the areas of law pertaining to Bankruptcy and Creditor’s Rights. His practice also includes commercial collection and mortgage foreclosure cases. He is a long time member of the American Bankruptcy Institute. Mr. Cronin attended Denison University and received his B.S. in 1984. He attended Washington College earning his M.A. in 1987. In 1989, he received his J.D. from Widener University School of Law, formerly Delaware Law School, and was a member of the law review there, The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law.
Mr. Cronin was a law clerk for the Honorable Helen S. Balick of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. While a judicial law clerk, Mr. Cronin assisted Judge Balick on the first wave of “megabankruptcies” that were filed in that judicial district, including the Continental Airlines and Columbia Gas System Chapter 11 cases.
Subsequently, Mr. Cronin represented major credit card issues in bankruptcy cases at Becket & Watkins and, later, his own boutique law firm which specialized in credit card bankruptcies on a national level. In 2005, Mr. Cronin joined Whelan, Doyle & Pressman, LLC as an associate attorney.
Mr. Cronin was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1990 and the Maryland bar in 1991. Mr. Cronin is also admitted before the following Federal Bars: the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mr. Cronin has had the following articles published: Comment, “State Takeover Legislation After CTS: Does It Give States a Free Hand to Regulate Tender Offers?” 13 Del.J.Corp.L. 1029 (1988); “The Meaning of Cash Advances in the Presumption of Nondischargeability under §523(a)(2)(C);” Norton Bankruptcy Law Advisor, at 10-13, June, 2000. He has also had several other legal publications for the Philadelphia Bar Association.