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Practice and Procedure

How to Be a Successful Expert

Financial Advisors Track: How to Be a Successful Expert
1 hour 25 minutes 14 seconds

The Art of Practical Evidence

This luncheon plenary session will provide an overview of some of the most common evidentiary problems and miscues that come up in trial practice before the bankruptcy court, along with a number of trial evidentiary pointers and practice tips.

How High Is Your Ethics IQ? Or, Are You at Risk for Sanctionable Conduct?

This interactive program will enable attendees to “vote their conscience” (with responders) on various ethical dilemmas, with panelists providing commentary after each question.

A Stern Warning about Bankruptcy Court Authority: How Long Is the Long Arm of the Law?

This panel will provide an update on procedural developments in bankruptcy cases, covering issues such as personal jurisdiction, service of process, and perhaps enforcement. There will also be an update on Stern and its practical implications.

Judges’ Roundtable

Featuring the Judges of the 18th Annual Rocky Mountain Bankruptcy Conference

Extracting Uranium from Sandstone: Hot Topics Uncovered

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.
1 hour 29 minutes 34 seconds

The Open-Pit Copper Mine: Bringing Value to the Surface—Effectively Trying Contested Matters

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.
1 hour 26 minutes 25 seconds

Evidence: What It Is, Why You Need It, and How to Get It Admitted

This panel will discuss valuation, motion to lift stay, objections to claim and adversaries.

Consumer Update

This panel will focus on the latest local bankruptcy rules, as well as the most current cases and the related decisions.