Professional Compensation/Fees

Financial Advisors Track: Current Issues for Financial Advisors in Bankruptcy Cases This panel will discuss the various governance, operational and quasi-legal issues that financial advisors deal with on a day-to-day basis before, during and after the commencement of a chapter 11 case. Topics will include addressing management fraud, dealing with ERISA/labor/WARN Act/union issues, navigating corporate governance issues, Dodd-Frank compliance, and the state of the law on pursuit of accounting and securities fraud claims.

This panel will discuss the qualification and disqualification of the debtor in possession’s professionals and conflicts counsel.

This panel will focus on the ethics of limiting the scope of employment as well as attorney's fees in Chapter 7 and how they get paid.

Hot Issues in Chapter 7 and 13

The Ethics of Getting Paid, Part 2