Marty K. Courson

Marty K. Courson is a bankruptcy lawyer in San Francisco and California native. He graduated from Humboldt State University, earning a Bachelor of Science in Business with an emphasis in Computer Science.

After college, Marty landed his first job at the Space Division Headquarters of the United States Air Force. His work there led him to Vandenberg Air Force Base, where the government was building a West Coast Space Shuttle Launch facility. That program was cancelled after the Challenger disaster and Marty transferred to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where NASA was focusing its energy on returning the Shuttle Fleet to space flight. Marty worked at Kennedy Space Center for five years as a member of the Space Shuttle Processing Team. Some of the notable launches during his time at Kennedy Space Center included:

  1. The Nation's return to space with the flight of the shuttle Discovery
  2. The shuttle launch that placed the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit
  3. The launch that sent the spacecraft Galileo to explore the distant reaches of our solar system.

While working on the space program was challenging, fun and exciting, Marty always wanted to be a lawyer. In 1991, he left his employment at Kennedy Space Center to attend Golden Gate University* School of Law and pursue his dream of becoming an attorney. In 1995, upon graduation from law school, Marty was ranked number 1 in his class.

Since 1996, Marty has worked as a Bay Area bankruptcy attorney for several law firms that specialize in bankruptcy practice and litigation. Marty also worked as a San Francisco bankruptcy attorney for the bankruptcy department at Howard, Rice, Nemorovski, Canady, Falk and Rabkin, the attorneys handling the Pacific Gas & Electric Company bankruptcy case, one of the largest bankruptcy cases in United States history.

Marty is now in private practice, focusing solely on the needs of consumers and small business persons as a Bay Area bankruptcy lawyer located in San Francisco. Marty lives in the Castro district of San Francisco with his partner Jim and a cat named Jasper.

*While a law student, Marty published a note in his University's Law Review entitled, Baehr v. Lewin: Hawaii Takes a Tentative Step To Legalize Same-Sex Marriage, 24 GOLDEN GATE U. L. REV. 41 (1994) (discussing the first significant state high court case which recognized constitutionally protected rights for gay men and lesbians to marry, and which case ultimately led to an avalanche of legislative activity on a state and federal level seeking to prevent such marriages).