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After you have found your valuation expert, how do you know that the expert’s report is accurate? This panel will discuss some of the red flags that should cause you to raise some questions with your own expert (or consider asking the other side’s expert in cross-examination), and will discuss how organization might make it easier or harder to catch red flags.

Commission members will report on the Commission’s progress and final recommendations to Congress.

Any Midwest attorney is likely to represent a client in Delaware or the S.D.N.Y. at some point. For example, you're likely to have clients facing claims litigation, trying to preserve executory contact or lease rights, or facing a preference complaint. Would you like a crash course in representing your clients in these districts and practice like you have years of experience in front of these courts? If so, please join us for a program that will cover the most common situations a Midwest attorney might encounter. You’ll learn practice pointers, traps for the unwary and other rules (both black-letter and unwritten practices). This program will give you an edge when representing your clients in S.D.N.Y./Delaware cases and will assist you in delivering value, bringing home good results — and keeping your clients happy.

The strategic use of Examiners in some of the largest and most complex Chapter 11 cases has become more frequent in recent years. This panel explores the use of an Examiner to investigate, analyze and value potential causes of action and other contentious issues in ResCap and other significant Chapter 11 cases.

This panel will look at several bankruptcy mortgage mediation programs around the country, and will discuss what parties need to do in order to make mortgage mediations successful in consumer bankruptcy cases.

Use of judges as mediators; when is the right time to mediate?; when will discovery or a ruling on a key issue facilitate mediation?; who should attend?; what information should be exchanged and what should be confidential to the mediator?; possible case study of ResCap mediation or other example

The Judicial Conference Advisory Committees on Bankruptcy and Civil Rules have proposed amendments to their respective rules. This panel will discuss the proposed rule changes and the impact they will have on bankruptcy case administration.