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This panel will explore the evolving world of Merchant Cash Advances (MCAs), offering attendees a clear understanding of how MCA transactions work and their role in business financing. Experts will discuss the current legal and regulatory environment shaping the industry, as well as the practical costs and benefits for both funders and merchants. Whether you're new to MCAs or looking to deepen your insight, this session will provide valuable perspectives from legal, financial, and operational standpoints.
Understanding and calculating income can be challenging when it isn't consistent. This panel will explore strategies for assessing income for individuals with variable earnings, including seasonal employees, gig workers, self-employed individuals, and those receiving overtime or bonuses. The panelists also will discuss best practices, tools and policy considerations to ensure accurate and fair income determination in complex financial situations.
Health care bankruptcies present unique legal, operational and regulatory challenges that require specialized strategies and coordination. This session examines recent high-profile health care bankruptcy cases and will analyze the factors driving financial distress in hospitals, senior care facilities and other medical providers. The panelists explore such issues as patient care continuity, treatment of Medicare and Medicaid claims, the role of governmental regulators, and the impact of health care-specific rules on restructuring efforts. Whether representing debtors, creditors or other stakeholders, practitioners will gain insights into navigating the complexities of insolvency in the health care sector.
This webinar will discuss efforts currently underway to amend Bankruptcy Rule 9031 to expand judges’ toolboxes and allow for the appointment of special neutrals (a.k.a. special masters), and will focus on practical considerations in evaluating such an amendment.
As generative AI becomes part of the bankruptcy and restructuring toolbox, professionals face exciting opportunities — and serious obligations. This interactive panel will dive into real-world uses of AI tools, best practices for effective prompting, and the ethical rules you really don’t want to break. The panelists will include live demonstrations and audience Q&A, and discuss how courts and clients are responding to this fast-changing landscape.
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Do Hashtags Generate Business? Using Social Media and the Internet to Grow Your Practice (and Maybe Even Go Viral)
On the Internet, no one knows you’re an attorney (unless you have a website, blog, LinkedIn profile, Twitter account and/or other social media outlet). This panel will discuss the use of the Internet and social media in your practice.
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Consumer Debate
Resolved: Limited-scope representation should be allowed in consumer bankruptcy cases.
Brian T. Fenimore 102536, Moderator
Lathrop & Gage LLP; Kansas City
PRO: Theresa V. Brown-Edwards 211813
DARBY | BROWN-EDWARDS LLC; Wilmington, Del.
CON: Hon. Robert D. Berger 185770
U.S. Bankruptcy Court (D. Kan.); Kansas City
Business Debate
Resolved: Bankruptcy judges are authorized to do structured dismissals in chapter 11 bankruptcies.
Brian T. Fenimore 102536, Moderator
Lathrop & Gage LLP; Kansas City
PRO: G. David Dean, II 222886
Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard, PA; Baltimore
CON: T. Patrick Tinker 545420
Office of the U.S. Trustee; Wilmington, Del.
Judicial Debate
Resolved: A debtor can force a secured creditor to accept title to its collateral pursuant to a plan that provides for its surrender or vesting in that creditor.
Brian T. Fenimore, Moderator
Lathrop & Gage LLP; Kansas City
PRO: Hon. Robert E. Nugent 105973
U.S. Bankruptcy Court (D. Kan.); Wichita
CON: Hon. Arthur B. Federman 102540
U.S. Bankruptcy Court (W.D. Mo.); Kansas City
Hotcakes and Hot Topics: Judges’ Roundtable Q&A
This panel will feature a roundtable discussion with bankruptcy judges from the Ninth Circuit and across the country. The judges will share their thoughts and perspectives, as well as take questions from the audience, on topics of current interest in both business and consumer cases.
Hon. Eddward Phillip Ballinger
Hon. Bruce T. Beesley
Hon. Peter W. Bowie
Daniel P. Collins
Laurel E. Davis
Stacey G. C. Jernigan
Hon. Sandra Ruth Klein
Hon. August B. Landis
Hon. Margaret M. Mann
Hon. Elizabeth L. Perris
Hon. Barry Russell
Hon. Ronald H. Sargis
Hon. Laura Stuart Taylor
Hon. Gregg W. Zive
Ethics: Professionalism
Attorney professionalism is dedication to service to clients and a commitment to promoting respect for the legal system in pursuit of justice and the public good, characterized by ethical conduct, competence, good judgment, integrity and civility. This first-of-its-kind course explores the challenges and goals of professionalism among bankruptcy attorneys and other professionals.
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