Professional Compensation/Fees

For many distressed businesses, factoring loans — where third-party companies provide advances on invoices due — can be lifelines. This session will discuss this trending topic, as well as the dischargeability of nonpriority taxes for late-filed tax returns, and cryptocurrency.

Who knew that marketing should have been a law school class? Today’s legal landscape demands that lawyers be savvy marketers who can promote themselves online, building their reputations in the community and becoming “go to” practitioners for other lawyers and clients. Learn how to make your name pop in the legal realm.

The title says it all — and these sessions are always full of fireworks. We’ll cover post-petition appreciation in chapter 13s (to whom does it belong?), bifurcation of chapter 7 fees, and lien-stripping in chapter 20. You might be picking a side, but you’ll learn a lot from both sides!

Bankruptcy Judges Elizabeth Brown and Michael Romero will discuss the year’s widest splits and most controversial opinions with ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle.

Bifurcated fee arrangements involve splitting the consumer chapter 7 engagement into pre-petition and post-petition fee arrangements that require little or no money down for the work required to finish the case. In several jurisdictions across the nation, however, bifurcated fee arrangements in chapter 7 cases are being challenged. This panel will review the complex issues related to these fee arrangements.

Do you know the answers to the hottest ethics issues of the day? Do the experts? Are there actually answers? Audience members will match wits with a panel of ethics experts to see who knows up-to-the-minute ethical issues best! In this fun interactive session, the audience and the experts will try to determine the best answers to cutting-edge ethics questions from the bankruptcy world and beyond. The hot topics and questions will be known only to our Masters of Ceremonies, Tom Horan and Michael P. Richman (who will roam the audience with microphones), and will not be known to our audience or expert panelists Prof. Nancy Rapoport and Claire Wu until they play the game. Come enjoy, participate and learn!

Join ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle as he hosts a panel of bankruptcy judges to discuss circuit splits on important bankruptcy issues. Back again from the Annual Spring Meeting, this attendee-favorite panel will be presented in a fun game show format, where judges will vote to resolve the issues before they reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

Successful chapter 11 cases require financing from the start. This panel will discuss financing a chapter 11 case from day one through the reorganization plan’s effective date, focusing on complex cash collateral/DIPI financing and exit financing issues.

Hosted by the Ethics & Professional Compensation and Emerging Industries & Technology Committees This panel will dive into the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, which require lawyers to be competent in technology. The panelists will review today’s hot ethical technology pointers, as well as pitfalls that every insolvency professional should be aware of in their practice.

Join Bill Rochelle as he hosts a panel of bankruptcy judges to discuss circuit splits on important bankruptcy issues. This panel will feature a fun game-show format where judges will vote to resolve the issues before they reach the U.S. Supreme Court.