South Carolina State Approved Sessions

As chapter 11 practice continues to evolve, restructuring support agreements (RSAs) are being used with increasing frequency by companies seeking to de-lever their balance sheets or sell assets, both pre-petition and post-petition. This panel will provide an explanation of these agreements, discuss their pros and cons from the perspective of various parties, review common objections that have been made to the approval of RSAs, and describe the approval process in court proceedings.

The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act play increasingly critical roles. This panel will introduce and explain the most important features of the FDCPA and RESPA.

This panel will discuss mindfulness to control runaway mind moments and center your thoughts. Learn skills so that you are in control of your thoughts and not your thoughts controlling you.

With every new technology, there are potential legal and business risks, as well as ethical concerns. This panel will include a discussion of the ethical duties surrounding using third-party vendors.

This panel will discuss how trustees are paid and a trustee’s role upon conversion.

The global pandemic has had an incredible impact on mortgage issues in consumer bankruptcies and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. From the CARES Act forbearances, to resolving those forbearances through a waterfall of options including partial-claim mortgages, deferral agreements and modifications, to HAF funds, potential sales and other loss-mitigation options, this panel will discuss the pandemic's effects on consumer bankruptcies and the various issues that creditor and debtor attorneys will have to navigate.

The panel will discuss the impact of the untimely death of a debtor in bankruptcy.