Is Mediation the Antidote for Health Care Disputes?
Hosted by the Mediation and Health Care Committees
Obsolescence as a Catalyst
What happens when you represent a brick and mortar retailer, a newspaper or perhaps a coal-producer? What might be your client’s exit plan be? Leaning on other recent dying-industry experience, the panelists will explore various strategies on how the tough times ahead for such clients can be addressed in a bankruptcy, whether through a restructuring or a wind-down and liquidation of the company.
Coaching Your Non-Expert Witness
Have you ever had your expert sink your case with the wrong words? This no longer needs to be the case. Learn how to get the best testimony out of nonprofessional witnesses, including business owners and CFOs. This panel will discuss various evidentiary matters, including the use of affidavits, how to get hearsay in, special rules for business owners (valuation testimony and how to make it credible), direct testimony and business records.
Stern Revisited: In re Millennium Lab Holdings and Beyond
Hosted by the Bankruptcy Litigation and Young and New Members Committees
ABC Program: Professionalism! Competence! Featuring Judges on Best Practices
Bankruptcy judges sound off on the best (and worst) behavior of our bankruptcy brothers and sisters. Join us in our first ABC-sponsored session!
Your Ethical Duties
This panel focuses on the duties professionals have to protect electronically stored client information, best practices, ethical obligations and business considerations.
Valuations – Art or Science? Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
This lively session is intended to trace the trends in the application of the technical approaches to business and securities valuations, and to examine the direction the valuation profession is heading in. Are we becoming more of a science or an art, and how will the direction of the profession affect our work and its reliability?