Inside ABI June 2024
President’s Column I write this column as I reflect on my first few weeks as ABI President. I still feel overwhelmed by the honor of leading this incredible organization, but I also feel sheepish about the amount of coverage it has garnered. Between ABI’s press team
Legislative Highlights June 2024
Legislative Highlights Senate Leaders Take Different Legislative Paths to Curb ‘Judge-Shopping’ Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on April 10 each introduced legislation that would alter how certain cases
Inside ABI May 2024
President’s Column After spending the past year shadowing our outgoing ABI President, Soneet R. Kapila of KapilaMukamal, LLP (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), I look forward to following in his footsteps as ABI President. His work with the Subchapter V Task Force has been
Inside ABI April 2024
President’s Column As I write my final column, I am reflecting on what an ever-advancing organization ABI is. For more than four decades, ABI has been the force of the insolvency and restructuring industry. Under the leadership of each president, the organization has
Legislative Highlights April 2024
Legislative Highlights U.S. Judicial Conference Aims to Promote Random Case Assignment The Judicial Conference of the United States on March 12 proposed strengthening the policy governing random case assignment, limiting the ability of litigants to effectively choose
Inside ABI March 2024
President’s Column The last 11 months have provided me with the best opportunity to truly appreciate what ABI offers that does not meet the eye at first blush. Following my installation as ABI President in April 2023, I undertook the “ABI Ambassador” role and attended
Legislative Highlights March 2024
Legislative Highlights Senators, State AGs Submit Amicus Briefs Calling for Supreme Court to Reject Georgia-Pacific’s Bankruptcy Maneuver Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and fellow Senate Judiciary Committee colleagues Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse