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Mr. Blackman is a principal in the Law Firm of Alpert, Barr & Grant, A Professional Law Corporation with over 25 years experience in business and real estate litigation, creditors' rights in bankruptcy, and manufactured housing and mobile home law. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and his Juris Doctor Degree from Loyola University School of Law.

Mr. Blackman is a past-president of the San Fernando Valley Bar Association, a member of the Board of Directors for the San Fernando Valley Community Legal Foundation and a former board member of the California Trustee's Association. In addition, Mr. Blackman has been the chair for the San Fernando Valley Bar Association's annual Law Day Programs which provide free legal services to members of the community who are otherwise unable to obtain the services of a lawyer and is currently serving on the Bar Association's Community Services Committee which operates the Association's Blanket the Homeless program, a program Mr. Blackman co-founded in 1997 and which has delivered almost 35,000 blankets to San Fernando Valley homeless shelters in 14 years. Mr. Blackman has also served as a member of the Loyola Law School Board of Directors for ten years. Mr. Blackman presently serves on the Valley Cultural Center Board of Directors, an organization which provides free concerts and movies in the Warner Center Park in Woodland Hills, California, and music and arts programs to local elementary schools in the West San Fernando Valley.

Since joining the California Trustee's Association in 1996, Mr. Blackman has served on the Los Angeles Chapter Board for 9 years and the CTA and the UTA education committees for almost 15 years and regularly contributes articles for the UTA Quarterly and appears on bankruptcy and mobilehome foreclosure panels at the Annual UTA Education Conferences.

Mr. Blackman has served on numerous United States Bankruptcy Court committees for the Central District of California, including the Opening Ceremony Committee for the Woodland Hills Courthouse, the Chapter 13 Forms Committee, and the Judicial Variance Survey Committee.

One of the two most important functions of our organization is education (the other being legislation regarding our industry). While UTA has grown in size and participation since it was formed, I would like to see UTA increase the number and scope of regional educational programs, especially when, as now, the laws and procedures governing foreclosures and related legal issues are changing rapidly. While many companies send a few of their employees to the UTA convention each year, it is also important to provide local programs so that a greater number of the trustee's staffs may attend more regularly.