He is visiting from the faculty of the University of California Hastings College of the Law, which he joined in the fall of 2014, after serving as a lecturer and teaching fellow at Stanford Law School. Prior to joining Stanford Law School, Professor Ellias was an associate in private practice at Brown Rudnick LLP in New York, where he represented financial institutions and ad hoc and statutory creditor committees in corporate restructuring transactions, both in and out of bankruptcy court. He has trial experience in the bankruptcy courts of the District of Delaware, the Western District of Louisiana and the Southern District of New York.