Using Yoga and Mindfulness to Assist Your Legal Practice
This panel will discuss mindfulness to control runaway mind moments and center your thoughts. Learn skills so that you are in control of your thoughts and not your thoughts controlling you.
Shall We Dance?
This panel will explore various perspectives on the so-called “Texas Two-Step” bankruptcy technique, including whether it’s something that could (or should) be exported from the U.S.
Racial Disparities in the Bankruptcy System
Presented by the Hon. Eugene R. Wedoff Seventh Circuit Consumer Bankruptcy Conference
The panelists will discuss systemic/unconscious bias, defects in the system, and what the bar and the judiciary can do to correct disparate treatment.
Enhancing Justice, Reducing Bias: Examining the Bankruptcy System
Join the growing conversation about the intersection of race and socioeconomic barriers in bankruptcy. What are the facts? What can be done about reducing bias? What is our professional responsibility as bankruptcy professionals to overcome these barriers?
How the Three Little “Ps” — Pitching, Presentation and Performance — Can Blow Your Audience Away
Learn how to enhance your client and committee pitches, hone your panel presentations, and “wow” your court or your audience from this group of skilled advocates and public speakers. This workshop, suitable for attorneys of all levels, will provide you with tips, lessons and examples to help you improve your presentation skills.
Case Updates: Business and Consumer Law Developments
This panel will present a lively discussion of key issues decided in business and consumer bankruptcy cases throughout the country over the past year.
Accounting in the Bankruptcy Context
This panel will focus on what the numbers mean, who cares about them and why they care — and why you should care, too.