This session features a “speed-dating-style” of roundtable discussion of current bankruptcy and practical skills issues, with regional judges and trustees changing tables every 15-20 minutes.
ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle reviews the cases creating a bankruptcy buzz that practitioners should be aware of.
This panel features a roundtable discussion with bankruptcy judges from the Ninth Circuit and across the country. The judges share their thoughts and perspectives, as well as take questions from the audience, on topics of current interest in both business and consumer cases. Given the large file size of the materials, the pdf must be downloaded from here. If you are unable to retrive the file using this link, please contact ABI at (703) 739-0800.
This panel provides an overview of the intersection between bankruptcy and family law, including the effects on property of the estate when one spouse does not file, community and separate property issues, scope of the automatic stay, collection against the non-debtor spouse, and other related family law issues as they intersect with bankruptcy.
This panel highlights practice risks that include debtor and creditor viewpoints, including include racking and anticipating obvious and unknown deadlines, appreciating inherent conflicts that may pose ethical problems and critical path obstacles to hidden conflicts of interest, springing conflicts of interest, undisclosed client expectations creating dissatisfaction with the process and outcome, and underestimating expense and delay leading to crisis of payment and inability to effectuate strategy.
This panel discusses recent Supreme Court bankruptcy decisions, the lasting impact of others that continue to affect the restructuring practice, and predictions about future issues that the Court will or should consider.
This session provides an in-depth look at recognizing these types of claims and determining when and how to file the actions.
This session presents an in-depth analysis of the interplay among tax law, liquidation and bankruptcy. The panelists examine some of the tax traps that exist for an individual when business obligations remain unpaid in a closure or bankruptcy, as well as how to use an insolvency defense to defeat phantom K-1 and 1099 income.
This session features a discussion regarding the various bear traps and pitfalls of dealing with nonbankruptcy-related claims in the bankruptcy context. Issues include how to avoid the bankruptcy court from dismissing your claim, the reasons that you would be estopped from challenging a claim, and when you should ask for relief to return to state court.
This panel presents a detailed look at filing foreclosures, state law defenses and post-judgment foreclosure matters, and when to file bankruptcy in the process.
Hon. Eugene R. Wedoff (ret.), ABI President and member of the ABI Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy, discusses the Commission’s recommendations for improving the consumer bankruptcy system within the existing structure. To learn more about the ABI Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy, visit consumercommission.abi.org.