Consumer

Panel will highlight practice risks that include debtor and creditor viewpoints. The topics will include: tracking and anticipating obvious and unknown deadlines, appreciating inherent conflicts that may pose ethical problems as well as critical path obstacles to hidden conflicts of interest, springing conflicts of interest, undisclosed client expectations creating dissatisfaction with the process and outcome, and underestimating expense and delay leading to crisis of payment and inability to effectuate strategy.

This panel will discuss issues inherent when a client files multiple bankruptcies, including dismissal, discharge, automatic stay, lien-stripping, chapter 20, married debtors, co-debtors and more.

This session will feature a “speed-dating-style” of roundtable discussion of current bankruptcy and practical skills issues with regional judges and trustees changing tables every 15-20 minutes.

Ethics is not just a course you must take to keep your license. Ethical guidelines are something that should be incorporated in your day-to-day practice.

This panel will discuss how young professionals can grow their practices, maintain contacts, improve their reputations and bring in business.

Caesars has been one of the largest and most contentious cases in recent years. Hear how the parties involved addressed the most difficult issues in the case and how a resolution was finally reached.

This session discusses to whom a debtor surrenders his residence, and whether a surrender prohibits the debtor from opposing a state court foreclosure action. The recent case of In re Failia (11th Cir.) sheds light on these questions.

This session will highlight particularly interesting case law developments to date in 2017 and their impact on bankruptcy law and practice.

This panel will present a lively discussion of key issues decided in business and consumer bankruptcy cases throughout the country over the past year.