About Cristina M.
Cristina M. Lipan studied economics before turning to the law. She earned a B.S. in economics from Hunter College in 2007 and completed her J.D. at Hofstra University in 2010. Those years framed a move from academic study to practice, and set the course for a career centered on bankruptcy matters in New York.
Her early legal work began at Borges & Associates in 2011, where she served as a bankruptcy lawyer. She moved into bankruptcy project management in 2016 at Garden City Group, LLC, taking on work that included coordinating complex case workflows. The next year she returned to practice at Shipkevich PLLC as a bankruptcy lawyer. In 2018 she worked at the Law Offices of Joseph A. Romano, P.C., and in 2020 she joined LaMonica Herbst & Maniscalco, LLP.
Over the course of those roles she has combined formal legal training with roles that required both case-level advocacy and project oversight. Her resume shows repeated work in bankruptcy settings, including creditor and debtor matters, court filings and procedural management. She has experience across the stages of bankruptcy practice: intake, filings, and the procedural processes that follow. Colleagues describe her approach as methodical; she tends to work through details rather than rely on broad generalities.
Lipan practices in New York and has built a career that crosses private firm work and operational roles within bankruptcy administration. She has switched between litigation-focused positions and behind-the-scenes positions that demand organization and attention to deadlines. That breadth has given her familiarity with the different pressures that affect bankruptcy cases and the teams that handle them.
She is currently an attorney at LaMonica Herbst & Maniscalco, LLP in New York, where her practice focuses on bankruptcy law.
