James D. Prendergast is immediate past Co-Chair of the ABA Joint Task Force on Filing Office Operations and Search Logic; an Official Observer to the Uniform Law Commission Drafting Committee on Manufactured Housing; an Official Observer to the American Law Institute/Uniform Law Commission Review Committee on Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code; a Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers; past Co-Chair of the Programs Subcommittee of the Commercial Finance Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association; past President of the Financial Lawyers Conference; past Chair of the Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association; a former member of the UCC Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California; and Adjunct Professor of Commercial Law-Secured Transactions and Bankruptcy Law at Pepperdine University School of Law and of Commercial Law at Loyola of Los Angeles Law School. Mr. Prendergast is also Vice Chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.