Monique Jewett-Brewster

Shareholder Hopkins & Carley
About/Bio

Monique Jewett-Brewster is Chair of the Financial Institutions and Creditors Rights Practice Group and a member of Hopkins & Carley’s Litigation Department in the San Jose office. Monique has over twenty years of experience advising creditor clients in every aspect of insolvency law, including without limitation, in the workout, restructuring and enforcement of commercial loans and in business bankruptcy cases nationwide. She also counsels the City of Oakland in its bankruptcy matters.

 With a love of sharing knowledge, Monique has presented on the subjects of commercial finance and business bankruptcy for the State Bar of California (later CLA)’s Business Law Section; Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB); California Bankruptcy Forum; Bar Association of San Francisco; Alameda County Bar Association; California Minority Counsel Program; California Bankers Association; Western Bankers Association; and Tennessee Bar Association, among other organizations. Monique is also a prolific author, having served as a contributing author to Westlaw’s Commercial Finance Newsletter as a member of the CLA Business Law Section’s ad hoc authors committee, and authored a chapter on the impact of bankruptcy on real property title and sales included in CEB’s Real Property Ownership and Taxation practice guide. Monique also has drafted several legal development alerts of value to her commercial creditor clientele. 

Finally, Monique was instrumental to the launch of Hopkins & Carley’s Bankruptcy Bytes and Money Matters video series in 2020, both of which designed to introduce commercial creditors to complicated legal concepts related to their ability to recover defaulted debt. As of the close of 2022, these creditors rights video series have been viewed over 70,000 times.

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