Hot Topics and Ethical Issues in Consumer Cases

This panel explores a combination of ethical/malpractice issues that consumer lawyers typically face. The panelists focus on new developments in bankruptcy case law that are plaguing unwary lawyers, such as technical deadlines, procedural pitfalls, disclosure requirements, fee controversies, confusing statutes, the lack of clear guidelines among the different districts, uncertainty as to the propriety of certain practices, and rapidly changing and developing case law.