New York State Approved Sessions

This presentation will discuss ethical issues relating to representing debtors who have engaged in “aggressive” asset protection/exemption planning, the problem with using involuntary bankruptcies to resolve corporate disputes, issues on representing involuntary debtors, and what to do about clients who lie under oath or knowingly fail to turn over discovery.

This panel will cover the critical relationship between professional responsibility and rules of discovery. The panel will discuss the pitfalls and common mistakes that attorneys make with digital discovery and electronic evidence.

Hear from a noted Supreme Court scholar and the Reporter to the ABI's Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11.

Health care bankruptcy filings went up 38 percent between 2010-14. This panel will examine current issues facing the health care industry and the intersection of health care law and bankruptcy. Topics will include 363 sales, reorganization, issues related to provider agreements, regulatory issues and health care ombudsmen.

This panel will discuss the increasingly prevalent use of receiverships under state and federal law by lenders to distressed companies as an alternative to bankruptcy. But the two schemes are not mutually exclusive, and sometimes they collide. The panel will explore the various legal and practical differences, benefits and disadvantages of receiverships vs. bankruptcy, and issues that arise when the two meet.

This panel will explore how to navigate the myriad issues caused by bad-faith chapter 11 filings and will discuss current case law and trends, including how and when a case should be dismissed, whether a business entity can be formed by real estate investors solely to file a chapter 11 bankruptcy, venue-shopping and a host of other issues.

This panel, which includes a bankruptcy judge, experienced litigators, and an expert witness, will explore through a mock trial various evidentiary issues that routinely arise in trials in bankruptcy court.

Enjoy a breakfast discussion with the judges of the Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop.

Find out the latest about the cases that keep you up at night.

This panel will discuss why experts are needed for cramdown analysis and other plan-confirmation issues raised by the Supreme Court’s decision in Till, including how to identify, select, prepare and present experts on Till confirmation issues.