Consumer Track: Student Loan Update
The panel will address trends in dischargeability, modification programs, prospects for legislative changes and other recent developments.
Consumer Track: Use of Governmental Assistance Programs in Chapter 13
Consumer debtors have been turning up the heat recently and asserting private rights of action, specific performance and damage claims based on federal statutes passed in response to the consumer mortgage loan crisis. This panel will explore issues surrounding the claims asserted under nonbankruptcy consumer mortgage mitigation programs (HAMP, HARP, etc.) and enforcement programs (National Mortgage Settlement, OCC consent orders, etc.) by debtors in chapter 13 cases.
Business/Consumer Cross-Over Track: Individual Chapter 11 Cases
Individual chapter 11 cases continue to present practitioners with a variety of complex and perplexing issues. This panel will discuss navigating through an individual chapter 11 case from the perspective of both the debtor and its creditors.
Business Track: Living under the U.S. Trustee Guidelines
"As the U.S. Trustee guidelines for large chapter 11 cases are nearing their six-month anniversary, this panel will discuss how the guidelines have been implemented, what reception they have received from the courts and whether they have changed the way large chapter 11 cases are administered."
Business Track - The Collision of Confidentiality and Due Process
This panel will explore the tension between the fundamental tenets of disclosure and due process in bankruptcy cases and the increasing trend toward confidentiality, whether legitimate or not.
Business Track - Mock Hearing: Intellectual Property Issues Involving Licenses as Executory Contracts
Two litigants will argue before a judge panel whether an intellectual property license is executory and assignable. And if it is not assignable, and for business reasons the debtor decides to reject the license agreement, what amounts to rejection of that license agreement and what rights, if any, the licensee has if a rejection occurs.
Business Track: The § 363 Sale Process from a Transactional Perspective
Section 363 transactions have a dominating presence in today’s chapter 11 practice. This panel will focus on the nuts and bolts of the asset-purchase agreement and related ancillary documents, including sale procedures orders, sale orders and other sale-related pleadings.
Business Track: Union Contracts
Organized labor has been at the forefront of many significant chapter 11 cases over the past several years. This panel will address a variety of topics (CBAs, WARN Act, Legacy Costs) that are critical to restructuring cases involving labor unions.
Business Track - Municipal Bankruptcies
Industry leaders will address hot topics arising in Municipal Bankruptcies including eligibility and confirmation issues, challenges facing financial advisors to Chapter 9 debtors, the latest and greatest on the extent of Bankruptcy Court power under sections 903 and 904, special revenues and appellate procedural hurdles. The panel will also discuss the future of Chapter 9.