This program focuses its discussion on the administration by trustees of unusual assets, including tort and class action claims, intellectual property, alcohol, firearms and drugs. The panelists also delve into the process of abandonment of assets by trustees.
This session features a discussion of changes to bankruptcy law that are affecting and will continue to affect the day-to-day practice of consumer bankruptcy attorneys — and how you can ensure that your business survives in this challenging landscape.
A reverse mortgage can begin as a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM), but for some it becomes a nightmare by Home Invalidation Causing Undeniable Pain (HICUP). Learn what a reverse mortgage is, how one qualifies for the loan, and the traps that may lie ahead if your client files bankruptcy.
This session features a “speed-dating-style” roundtable discussion of current bankruptcy and practical skills issues with regional judges, trustees and other presenters.
The speakers each present short “TED Talk”-styled topics on a variety of timely and emerging issues germane to bankruptcy practitioners, including Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, immigration, student loans, mediation, seat licenses and litigation funding.
Bill Rochelle, ABI's editor-at-large, analyzes the most important decisions in the last year affecting both consumer and reorganization law. He covers issues where the courts are split and questions that the U.S. Supreme Court should be answering in the next few years.
This panel goes through a run-through of closing a corporate entity, touching on the pros and cons of bankruptcy, ABCs and receiverships; the tax implications of all and who pays; the new Ohio receivership law; and who you represent.
Learn concrete skills while experiencing a lively mock valuation hearing.
Join this session to discuss filing claims for creditors; selling purely secured property with and without carve-outs; selling jointly owned property, property of the estate and unusual assets; and trusts, inherited assets and life insurance policies.