Ethics: Representation Issues: Don't Gamble With Your Reputation or Getting Paid
This panel will focus on the ethics of limiting the scope of employment as well as attorney's fees in Chapter 7 and how they get paid.
Evidence: What It Is, Why You Need It, and How to Get It Admitted
This panel will discuss valuation, motion to lift stay, objections to claim and adversaries.
The Latest on the Mortgage Mess
This panel will discuss the update on mortgage relief programs; litigation between homeowners and lenders; intersection with bankruptcy and motions for relief from stay.
Individual Chapter 11: Not Just Chapter 13 on Steroids
This panel will discuss what consumer practitioners need to know about individual Chapter 11s and how they differ from Chapter 13 cases
Consumer Update
This panel will focus on the latest local bankruptcy rules, as well as the most current cases and the related decisions.
Great Debates
Since most debtors default in chapter 13 plans before they reach completion, are modifications needed to the law's rehabilitation goals? Pro: Hon. Pamela Pepper Con: Catherine Peek McEwen Should the U.S. Trustee's enforcement role in chapter 11 cases yield to creditor preferences? Pro: Robert M. Fishman Con: Clifford J. White, III Do creditors' committees serve a useful purpose in cases where the debtor's assets are overly encumbered and the amount of unsecured claims is a fraction of the amount of secured debt? Pro: Robert J. Feinstein Con: Jay M. Goffman
Fraudulent Conveyance Litigation from Soup to Nuts
Business Track-Fraudulent Conveyance Litigation from Soup to Nuts
This program will present a mock hearing involving the myriad procedural and substantive issues associated with fraudulent-conveyance litigation brought by an estate representative, including Stern v. Marshall jurisdictional issues, Twombly and Iqbal and other issues.
Bench:
Hon. Joy Flowers Conti
U.S. District Court (W.D. Pa.); Pittsburgh
Hon. Barbara J. Houser
U.S. Bankruptcy Court (N.D. Tex.); Dallas
Hon. Barry Russell
U.S. Bankruptcy Court (C.D. Cal.); Los Angeles
Litigants:
David M. Stern
Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP; Los Angeles
David B. Wheeler
Moore & Van Allen, PLLC; Charleston, S.C.
Pushing the Envelope
Business Track - Pushing the Envelope
This program will feature a discussion of the aggressive provisions that debtor's, lender's and buyer's counsel have been trying to insert into DIP orders, sale orders and confirmation orders.
From Infants to Toddlers: Bankruptcy Rules 3001 and 3002.1 Experience First-Year Growing Pains
Consumer Track - From Infants to Toddlers: Bankruptcy Rules 3001 and 3002.1 Experience First-Year Growing Pains
Bankruptcy Rules 3001 and 3002.1 turn one year old on Dec. 1, 2012. The panel will explore the cases that have arisen over the past year and look ahead to as-yet-unresolved issues.