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This panel explores the ethical implications of AI in legal practice, focusing on fee issues and providing tips for crafting effective prompts. The panelists discuss how AI tools are reshaping billing practices and the standards for reasonable compensation, as well as practical strategies for integrating AI while maintaining ethical standards. Discover how to create powerful prompts that maximize AI's potential and ensure transparency with clients and courts. Don't miss this insightful conversation!

Join this accomplished panel of subchapter V trustees, financial advisors and one inquisitive judge as they discuss emerging trends related to the fair-and-equitable standard, including post-confirmation expenses (anticipated and otherwise), fluctuations in income, and other variables in the context of nonconsensual plans. This session emphasizes the critical role of financial advisers and subchapter V trustees with respect to a debtor's projected disposable income, as well as the creative financial alternatives that can be considered to fairly account for post-confirmation uncertainties.

This panel focuses on the critical role of strategic communications during large, high-profile bankruptcy cases. Using real-world examples, experts discuss the challenges of managing media narratives, stakeholder concerns and public perception in high-stakes scenarios. Topics include media relations, crisis communication strategies, and the importance of proactive storytelling to ensure a successful restructuring.

This panel will discuss the utility of Rule 2005 and sanctions.

In 2005, Congress enacted sweeping changes in the Bankruptcy Code in a law commonly known as BAPCPA (bap-SEE-puh).  Most insolvency professionals recognize BAPCPA’s changes to consumer bankruptcy, such as the means test, modifications to the discharge exceptions and new limits on homestead exemptions.  But BAPCPA affected business bankruptcy too, making chapter 12 permanent and creating the notion of a “small business case” in chapter 11. As BAPCPA turns 20, this panel reflects on its past two decades: what worked, what didn’t, and what might come next.

Domestic and foreign economic policies (and potentially laws and regulations) are undergoing a seismic shift, leading to increased uncertainties and greater market volatility. This panel considers the business impacts of tariffs, trade policies, tax reform, changes in the regulatory environment, and disruptions in both the public and private sectors. Given the rapid pace of proposed and actual changes, this discussion focuses on current events — with a healthy amount of prognostication — to explore areas of increased or potential financial distress.

This session explores the issues and implications of managing bankruptcy cases when key assumptions and expectations fail to materialize, and the exit path is no longer available. What happens then? For instances where there is limited liquidity and the case is facing possible dismissal, administrative insolvency and/or conversion to chapter 7, the panelists run through key pitfalls and provide guidance on how to effectively manage bankruptcy cases through these challenges by referencing several recent and high-profile health care cases to illustrate the harsh reality of these issues playing out today.

From managing the damage from scams on the elderly to filing for infant or incompetent debtors, this panel reviews issues that arise in these types of cases, and provides practical suggestions for how to best assist these vulnerable populations.

This session is designed to equip bankruptcy professionals with a foundational understanding of auction theory, enabling them to navigate asset sales more strategically and effectively. By exploring different auction formats, bidder behavior and key economic principles, participants gain insights into how auction structures impact outcomes in bankruptcy cases. The ultimate goal is to empower professionals to make informed decisions when advising clients, structuring auctions, and maximizing value for creditors. Through real-world applications and interactive discussions, the panelists aim to bridge the gap between legal practice and auction strategy, ensuring more transparent, competitive and efficient asset sales in bankruptcy proceedings.

This panel provides an overview of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) financing and the role of special servicers in a distressed context. The panelists also provide recent insights into the CMBS market and practitioner trends from the panelists’ viewpoints.