Leading bankruptcy lawyer Joel Zweibel died at home on Tuesday, Sept. 24, after a long illness. He was 78.

Zweibel, who retired in 2001, played a principal role in the representation of creditors in many major corporate reorganizations and restructurings in the last 25 years of the 20th century, including Texaco, Lomas, Eastern Air Lines, Macy’s, Public Service Company of New Hampshire, LTV Corporation, Baldwin-United Corporation and the airline Braniff.