Committee Educational Sessions - Bankruptcy Taxation
Preparing for Metamorphosis: Tax Questions Arising from Changes in Debt from Recourse to Nonrecourse (or vice versa) — Bankruptcy Discharges, Anti-Deficiency Statutes and § 1111(b)
Committee Educational Sessions - Bankruptcy Litigation/Financial Advisors and Investment Banking
Municipal Meltdown: Emergency Managers, Receiverships and Other State Law Options for Addressing Municipal Distress
Committee Educational Sessions - Legislation/Unsecured Trade Creditors: Did BAPCPA Put Retail Bankruptcy Out of Business?
Did BAPCPA Put Retail Bankruptcy Out of Business?
Committee Educational Sessions - Labor and Employment/International Committies: Labor and Employment Issues in Cross-Border Cases
Labor and Employment Issues in Cross-Border Cases
Committee Educational Sessions - Consumer Bankruptcy
Surviving Individual Business Bankruptcies- Considerations when choosing between Chapter 13 and Chapter 11
Professional Development Track: Training the Senior Partner
A panel of younger lawyers/financial professionals will talk about the issues and challenges of working for senior lawyers and suggest ways to improve the working relationship between senior and junior lawyers.
Professional Development Track: Social Media: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
This panel will discuss a variety of issues arising due to the explosion of social media communications. Topics will include property rights, evidence, spoliation, ethics and trustee investigation duties.
Consumer Track: Student Loan Update
The panel will address trends in dischargeability, modification programs, prospects for legislative changes and other recent developments.
Consumer Track: Use of Governmental Assistance Programs in Chapter 13
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.