A Primer on Digital Currency and Blockchain
This session will cover what everyone needs to know about digital currency and blockchain, and how it will impact future bankruptcy practice.
Dealing with Difficult Clients: The Liars, the Cheats and the Scoundrels
This panel will address the psychology, mindfulness and strategies for dealing with tough clients and tough ethical issues.
Health Care Bankruptcy Update
They just keep filing! This panel will discuss strategies and issues for dealing with the struggling health care industry.
Great Debates
Resolved: Use of the phrase "with respect to the debtor" in 11 U.S.C. § 362(c)(3) makes this provision applicable to termination of the automatic stay only as it relates to actions against the debtor and property of the debtor; this provision does not terminate the stay as to actions against property of the estate.
Resolved: Restrictions on a debtor’s authority to file bankruptcy should be enforced.
Good Will Hunting and Other Timely Commercial Law Issues in Bankruptcy
This panel will address issues related to (1) whether a blanket lienholder has a lien on the going concern or goodwill of a debtor under Article 9 of the UCC and how this complicated issue works out in the context of a chapter 11 case, (2) navigating §552 in regards to the post-petition effect of a pre-petition security interests, and (3) reclamation claims under §503(b)(9), including disputes between inventory lienholders and reclamation claimholders, and questions of when receipt of goods occurs, whether goods delivered to a debtor’s customer qualify for reclamation, and whether utility services are considered “goods” under §503(b)(9).
A License to Kill: Executory IP Contracts, Licenses and Intellectual Property Transactions in Bankruptcy
This panel will discuss exclusive and non-exclusive IP licenses and executory contract assumption as well as the assignment of IP Licenses, security interests in IP Licenses and a case study regarding the valuation and marketing of IP in the context of insolvency or forced sales.
The Matrix: New Technology in Bankruptcy: Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Blockchain and Virtual Currency
Join a panel of technology experts as they explore how cutting-edge technology is impacting the practice of law in the bankruptcy sector. Panelists discuss the up-and-coming role of artificial intelligence in legal research and case analysis and issues of cybersecurity. The panelists next shift its focus to a discussion of how blockchain and virtual currency might influence your next case. Do not get left behind; come learn how the future has arrived for bankruptcy practitioners.