Consumer

This is not your run-of-the-mill current developments session. The all-star members of this panel will explore recent consumer topics, case law and rules, and proposed rules and forms, and will offer their varying opinions and arguments in a lively debate-filled format that is sure to enlighten and entertain.

This session will discuss mortgage claims and causes of actions, challenging foreclosure sales and litigation of the same, robo-signing, framing mortgage action arguments, defeating motions for relief, results and consequences to the debtor, and Regulation X.

A panel of judges will discuss recent bankruptcy cases that impact consumer practitioners.

The panel will address trends in dischargeability, modification programs, prospects for legislative changes and other recent developments.

Consumer debtors have been turning up the heat recently and asserting private rights of action, specific performance and damage claims based on federal statutes passed in response to the consumer mortgage loan crisis. This panel will explore issues surrounding the claims asserted under nonbankruptcy consumer mortgage mitigation programs (HAMP, HARP, etc.) and enforcement programs (National Mortgage Settlement, OCC consent orders, etc.) by debtors in chapter 13 cases.