Arizona State Approved Sessions

This session will provide a detailed look at homestead and tenancy by the entirety exemptions, as well as retirement assets in bankruptcy.

This session will provide a unique, interactive look at difficult evidentiary issues.

Conducted in a Q&A format, this webinar will feature a series of mediation hypotheticals/questions presented to Mediation Committee Co-Chair Connor Bifferato and Education Director Edward Schnitzer for discussion and/or debate.

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed on March 10 following a run on its deposits, representing the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history behind the 2008 failure of Washington Mutual. Prior to its collapse, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based SVB was the 16th-largest bank in the U.S. and was the largest bank by deposits in Silicon Valley. This panel of experts will break down the failure and future of SVB, the FDIC's role in the banking crisis, and the impact its collapse may have on other financial institutions.

This session will discuss issues with debtors who own or have fractional interests in LLCs, corporations or partnerships, or who are self-employed. The panelists will cover how to determine what constitutes property of the estate; valuing a debtor’s interest in an LLC, corporation or partnership; and administering a debtor's fractional interests.

This panel of economic experts will discuss the effects of inflation, including financing, labor, stock values, and growth vs. recession.

This panel will discuss the following issues regarding crypto, distinguishing customer property from property of the estate, understanding crypto valuation issues, distribution options in crypto cases, M&A risks and pitfalls, effectively using social media to communicate with a large customer base, juggling cash and crypto management, and debtor-on-debtor violence.

This session will focus on the ways in which subchapter V cases progress through to a sale and/or plan, including statutory deadlines for subchapter V cases and how such deadlines do or don’t impact other Code sections, and whether Code deadlines are mandatory or discretionary. Attendees will learn standards and strategies to be considered in subchapter V cases.