About me
Shayna Steinfeld, Board Certified by the American Board of Certification in both Consumer and Business
Bankruptcy Law, is a shareholder of Steinfeld & Steinfeld, PC, and practices with her husband, Bruce, a Fellow of
the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Her practice involves representing debtors and creditors, handling
litigation in bankruptcy in all bankruptcy chapters, including representing small businesses in Chapter 11 cases and
individuals as debtors in chapters 7 and chapter 11. She has represented portfolios of banks and student loan
lenders and has handled numerous unusual and eclectic situations in the bankruptcy arena. She is a national
expert on the divorce-bankruptcy overlay. She is a past-President of the Atlanta Bar Association, and the Georgia
Association for Women Lawyers; a co-founder and past-president of the Georgia IWIRC (International Women’s
Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation) Network; a past-chair of the Sole Practitioner/Small Firm Section of
the Atlanta Bar and the Bankruptcy Sections of both the Atlanta Bar and the State Bar of Georgia; she is past Chair
of the Bankruptcy Committee the ABA Family Law Section and currently is a subcommittee Co-Chair for the ABA
Litigation Section. She has received many accolades, including “Section of the Year” and “Outstanding Woman in
the Profession;” and is regularly named a “Georgia Super Lawyer,” one of the top 50 women attorneys in Georgia
and has been previously recognized as one of the top 100 Lawyers in the State of Georgia. A graduate of Emory
University (BA, JD and MBA), Shayna frequently lectures and has authored many publications, including The Family
Lawyer’s Guide to Bankruptcy, which is published by the ABA Family Law Section and is in its 4th edition and she is
a co-editor of the recently published series: Her Story: Lessons in Success from Lawyers Who Live It, released by
the ABA Litigation Section in the Summer of 2017 and Her Story 2: The Resilient Woman Lawyer’s Guide to
Conquering Obstacles, released by the ABA Litigation Section in the Winter of 2023.
