Law360, New York ( March 31, 2014, 12:38 PM EDT) -- Lori L. Heyer-Bednar is partner-in-charge of Roetzel & Andress LPA's Fort Lauderdale, Fla., office. She focuses her practice on banking, commercial lending, commercial litigation, creditors' rights, business litigation and bankruptcy, with an emphasis on lender liability and asset-based lending matters. Her practice also involves loan workouts and loan restructuring, loan financing and title services. She represents numerous banks and financial institutions in both state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate court level. As part of her experience in lender liability, she has represented large financial institutions in defense of forgery and negligence claims based on negotiable instruments under the Uniform Commercial Code. She has chaired more than a dozen jury and bench trials in recent years....