District of Columbia State Approved Sessions

Trends in exemption law, including a Colorado legislative update and fallout from Clark v. Rameker and Law v. Siegel.

A significant number of bankruptcy cases involve the use of expert witnesses. This panel will explore issues that both counsel and experts should anticipate, including how credibility is derived and enhanced, the expert’s research and analysis phase, persuasive direct and cross examination of experts, non-verbal communication and courtroom etiquette.

This panel will discuss the collision of divorce practice and Bankruptcy Code §§362, 523, 1325, and 1328.

This panel will discuss retirement, death, changing area of practice, going out of business, fee splitting and unbundling.

This panel will discuss post-petition HOA dues, HELOCs, noticing, and § 522(f) and 506 motions.

Featuring the Judges of the 20th Annual Rocky Mountain Bankruptcy Conference.

Distressed companies usually show declining financial performance prior to failure. This session will focus on key financial ratios such as liquidity, leverage and coverage, as well as a firm’s sources and uses of funds, cash-conversion cycle and free cash flow, both before and after restructuring.

A review and analysis of the cost, market and income (cash flow) approaches in business valuation, including key assumptions in each of these valuation methodologies and a discussion of how academics and practitioners vary in their approaches.

Anytime there are fundamental market changes, there are winners and losers. Find out how the vast supply of U.S. oil and gas discoveries, coupled with stricter environmental regulations, are causing long-term changes. Who are the winners, and who are the losers? Find out how these shifts have impacted coal, renewables, oil and gas, power generation and refineries, and how these changes affect the value of the companies that participate in these industries, as well as the industry as a whole.