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This panel of economic experts will discuss the effects of inflation, including financing, labor, stock values, and growth vs. recession.

This panel will discuss considerations for engaging nonattorney professionals in distressed situations, particularly the importance of involving nonattorney professionals early in the process, how they can help in advance of a chapter 11 filing, how they can advise on alternatives to a chapter 11 filing, communications between counsel and nonattorney professionals, and issues surrounding the engagement of nonattorney professionals once a chapter 11 case commences. This session will be conducted in an open-discussion format, and participation is strongly encouraged!

This panel will examine the recent rise and possible fall of the Texas Two-Step, with a focus on the recent LTL and Aero decisions, as well as a discussion on good faith as a necessary aspect of a chapter 11 filing.

Who is your client? This panel will discuss navigating thorny engagement issues that can arise from representing affiliated debtors, conflicts that can occur when representing closely held businesses, the importance of disclosing connections, and how these issues affect attorneys, financial advisors and other professionals.

This session will focus on conflict issues, getting retained and paid, and § 327/disclosure issues.

Advising and interacting with clients remotely, with a strong reliance on electronic rather than in-person communications, is the reality for most bankruptcy professionals in a post-pandemic world. This session will focus on the resulting ethical issues facing consumer practitioners, including issues regarding the verification of debtor identity, authority issues regarding the use of client signatures, protection of confidential client information, conduct during telephonic (or video) § 341 meetings, and ethical obligations in the face of data breaches. The panelists will use hypothetical scenarios to demonstrate the ways in which these ethical issues often arise, and will discuss best practices to handle these issues, as well as highlight potential access-to-justice problems that clients can face.