Search Topics
This panel will explore the evolving world of Merchant Cash Advances (MCAs), offering attendees a clear understanding of how MCA transactions work and their role in business financing. Experts will discuss the current legal and regulatory environment shaping the industry, as well as the practical costs and benefits for both funders and merchants. Whether you're new to MCAs or looking to deepen your insight, this session will provide valuable perspectives from legal, financial, and operational standpoints.
Understanding and calculating income can be challenging when it isn't consistent. This panel will explore strategies for assessing income for individuals with variable earnings, including seasonal employees, gig workers, self-employed individuals, and those receiving overtime or bonuses. The panelists also will discuss best practices, tools and policy considerations to ensure accurate and fair income determination in complex financial situations.
Health care bankruptcies present unique legal, operational and regulatory challenges that require specialized strategies and coordination. This session examines recent high-profile health care bankruptcy cases and will analyze the factors driving financial distress in hospitals, senior care facilities and other medical providers. The panelists explore such issues as patient care continuity, treatment of Medicare and Medicaid claims, the role of governmental regulators, and the impact of health care-specific rules on restructuring efforts. Whether representing debtors, creditors or other stakeholders, practitioners will gain insights into navigating the complexities of insolvency in the health care sector.
This webinar will discuss efforts currently underway to amend Bankruptcy Rule 9031 to expand judges’ toolboxes and allow for the appointment of special neutrals (a.k.a. special masters), and will focus on practical considerations in evaluating such an amendment.
As generative AI becomes part of the bankruptcy and restructuring toolbox, professionals face exciting opportunities — and serious obligations. This interactive panel will dive into real-world uses of AI tools, best practices for effective prompting, and the ethical rules you really don’t want to break. The panelists will include live demonstrations and audience Q&A, and discuss how courts and clients are responding to this fast-changing landscape.
Over 2,700 Hours of Free Content
Municipal Bankruptcies: Lessons from the Front Lines
Chapter 9 poses difficult challenges, in no small part because the relatively limited body of case law provides courts and litigants with insufficient guidance. The panelists will draw upon their insight and experience to discuss some of the most interesting current issues, including the use of chapter 9 eligibility litigation for tactical objectives, the adjudication of plan confirmation issues, the challenges of pension fund restructuring, and the role of mediation in municipality cases.
Current Developments in Business Bankruptcy
This panel will survey current business bankruptcy developments, including issues ranging from bankruptcy courts’ jurisdiction, venue and constitutional authority to other practical issues affecting estate professionals, plan confirmation and enforcement, avoidance actions and other bankruptcy-related litigation.
Avoiding the Bankruptcy Code’s Early Land Mines
This panel will survey tricky issues involving eligibility, good-faith filings, small business bankruptcies and single-asset cases.
Very Good Debates
Judicial Debate
RESOLVED: Bankruptcy Code section 307 and the corresponding Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure should be amended to permit the Court to limit the role of the United States Trustee in corporate chapter 11 cases for cause upon motion of an Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors appointed in the case.
Mitchell Ryan 203605, Moderator
Rust Omni; Orange, Calif.
Pro: Hon. Peter W. Bowie 184974
U.S. Bankruptcy Court (S.D. Cal.); San Diego
Con: Hon. August B. Landis 108698
U.S. Bankruptcy Court (D. Nev.); Las Vegas
Business Debate
Resolved: Municipalities should not be permitted to modify pension benefits in chapter 9.
Mitchell Ryan 203605,Moderator
Rust Omni; Orange, Calif.
Pro: Sharon L. Levine 104784
Lowenstein Sandler LLP; Roseland, N.J.
Con: James H.M. Sprayregen 100999
Kirkland & Ellis LLP; Chicago
Consumer Debate
Resolved: Trustees should not be permitted to sell property where there is no equity for the estate.
Mitchell Ryan 203605, Moderator
Rust Omni; Orange, Calif.
Pro: C.R. "Chip" Bowles, Jr. 103012
Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP; Louisville, Ky.
Con: Ford Elsaesser 105080
Elsaesser Jarzabek Anderson Elliott & Macdonald, Chtd.; Sandpoint, Idaho
e-Learning Topics
Filter by Approved State
Most Popular Live Sessions
Join live sessions your peers are attending now.