Consumer

This session will cover the valuing of real property and subsequent trustee sale, carve-outs on real estate claims of exemption, equitable vs. legal title to property, and § 363 sales of foreclosed homes during the redemption period, as well as a discussion on rental properties and who gets the rent.

This session will include a discussion on the effect of prior state and federal court litigation, full faith and credit, res judicata, collateral estoppel, Rooker-Feldman and abstention.

Current Claims Issues in Chapter 13 Cases

This session will feature a discussion on 11 U.S.C. § 521 and FRBP 4002.

This panel is for participants who are either solo or small-firm practitioners and will include such topics as paperless offices, trust funds and accounting, managing workflow, and the implications on the office in the event of a natural disaster.

A panel of younger lawyers and financial professionals will talk about the issues and challenges of working for senior lawyers and will suggest ways to improve the working relationships between senior and junior lawyers.

This panel will provide helpful guidelines for creating clear client expectations, adequately defining work scope and managing fees when engaging FAs and expert witnesses. We have all had cases where clients were unhappy because work product didn’t meet expectations or fees were significantly higher than expected. This panel will help the practitioner learn how to use financial professionals more effectively to decrease the risk of having an unhappy client.

This panel of Midwestern judges will discuss some of the common mistakes that they are seeing in consumer cases, and how those mistakes can be avoided.

This panel will present the current trends in the industry, where the work is and isn’t, and where it may be in the future.