Alaska State Approved Sessions

Your consumer client’s problems may go beyond traditional insolvency issues. This panel will discuss ethical and legal strategies to protect your client’s interests.

Property valuation is a major issue affecting all real estate asset classes in today’s market, impacting lending and sale transactions, litigation and development transactions. We’ve been here before, but what’s different this time? This panel will address key issues related to valuation, including how far values dropped, and what will drive them up; the assets and asset classes that have been the most impacted by value declines; some of the elements having the biggest impact on values, and why; the techniques most commonly used to value distressed properties in today’s market; and the due diligence best practices for minimizing risks in acquisitions and financing transactions.

In Partnership with Epiq Bankruptcy Analytics Year-over-year bankruptcy filings continued to show solid increases across most chapters throughout 2023. Join ABI and statistical partner Epiq Bankruptcy Analytics for this special abiLIVE webinar, which will examine the consumer and business filing trends that emerged in 2023, how 2023's filings compare among different stakeholders and regions of the U.S., and whether these trends will continue into 2024.

Hosted by ABI's Bankruptcy Litigation Committee It’s been six years since ABI released the Second Edition of ABI's Quick Evidence Handbook. Join us for a reunion of some of the handbook’s authors to discuss developments in evidence law, and how issues discussed in the handbook have played out in practice.

Hosted by ABI's International Committee This is the second in a series of webinars that will cover key jurisdictions around the globe, focusing on developments you and your clients need to consider when thinking about bankruptcy-type proceedings in foreign jurisdictions. What you don’t know may hurt your clients, and you can’t just assume that the same rules apply as in the U.S. For this second webinar, the panelists will be examining the situation in Brazil, Canada, the Caymans and Mexico.

In this session, an FBI agent, a U.S. attorney, an Assistant U.S. Trustee and a bankruptcy trustee will discuss the who, what, when and why of bankruptcy crimes, including the relationship between a criminal prosecution and a contemporaneous bankruptcy case or cases involving the criminal defendants, either as principals of the debtor or the debtors themselves.