Texas State Approved Sessions

How are an expert's qualifications and the relevance and reliability of the expert's opinions assessed by courts? What do attorneys expect from experts and what do experts expect from attorneys? A panel of attorneys and valuation experts discuss the criteria for expert qualification, the methodological components of reliability and offer guidance on avoiding pitfalls and bad opinions when working with experts. The panel also provides recent statistics on Daubert challenges.

A panel of experts will summarize and discuss the legal impact and practical implications of the Supreme Court’s 2012 decisions in Radlax and Hall. How does Radlax impact sale plans? Why does the Hall decision make asset sales more problematic and what is its broader impact? What do these cases tell us about how to brief and argue bankruptcy appeals? Hear ABI’s panel of experts’ insights into these significant cases.

This panel will discuss the business rule to dissolved law firms.

This panel will discuss the qualification and disqualification of the debtor in possession’s professionals and conflicts counsel.

This panel will discuss all decisions interpreting Stern v Marshall.

This panel will discuss the meaning of “reasonably equivalent value” and recent cases involving interest involving fraudulent transfers.

This panel will discuss an overview of intellectual property, the automatic stay and the assumption and rejection of IP licenses.

The panel will discuss the “must know cases of all time”, judicial estoppels, equitable mootness, Barton doctrine, indubitable equivalence, finality, lien stripping, absolute priority rule, TOUSA and much more.

The panel will discuss in depth an operating manual for Chapter 11 and a Chapter 11 Plan checklist.

The key elements to trying contested matters are planning, writing effective pleadings, knowing rules of evidence, knowing when to use expert testimony and having a strong oral argument. The techniques, among others, are discussed in this panel.