Wisconsin State Approved Sessions

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 the integration of student loans into your chapter 13 practice, particularly how to approach student loans with a consideration of potential litigation occurring during or as part of the chapter 13 process, and language that should be included within your chapter 13 plans to better assist your clients.

This panel will feature a conversation on what we have learned about remote and hybrid practice, and what could use some improvement. The panelists will discuss staffing an office in a virtual environment, retaining talent, the expectation for flexibility, best practices for training new team members and maintaining office morale.

The pandemic is over, and life is returning to normal. Or is it? Over the past three years, we’ve all learned to run lean and mean waiting for the tsunami to arrive. Will you scale up your staff and office space to accommodate the next wave of bankruptcies, or will you work with third-party vendors who can handle many of the daily tasks for you so that you are able to scale without creating an excessive amount of fixed overhead? This plenary will feature multiple vendors that are here to serve your business needs.

In modern practice, attorneys can hope for the best, but need to plan for the worst. Accidents and unforeseen circumstances can happen in the blink of an eye. Can your office still function if something does occur? This panel will discuss the various issues that attorneys may encounter, including cybersecurity, privacy protection, power outages, physical security compromises, mobile device loss, natural disasters, cloud-computing recovery, the continued management of remote workers and office tech.

In modern practice, attorneys can hope for the best, but need to plan for the worst. Accidents and unforeseen circumstances can happen in the blink of an eye. Can your office still function if something does occur? This panel will discuss the various issues that attorneys may encounter, including cybersecurity, privacy protection, power outages, physical security compromises, mobile device loss, natural disasters, cloud-computing recovery, the continued management of remote workers and office tech.

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

This panel will focus on the economics of continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) and where theyare positioned in the senior living and care industry. Learn how the pandemic and resulting economy haveimpacted CCRCs, and how they are managing the resulting operating challenges. Because CCRCs frequentlyrequire substantial individual financial upfront investment, prospective residents and their heirs may expressconcerns about risks and potential losses in the event of a CCRC bankruptcy. The panelists will explore theseindustry challenges, as well as how a CCRC bankruptcy affects the various case constituents.