Vermont State Approved Sessions

This session will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming health care, from diagnostics and treatment-planning to operational efficiency, and will address the ethical, regulatory and human-centered challenges AI brings about. The panelists will discuss how advancements in AI can enhance clinical decision-making, diagnostics and personalized care while maintaining ethical and patient-centered practices, and will evaluate practical strategies for integrating AI tools into health care workflows based on real-world applications, challenges and lessons learned.

In this session, former and active hospital and senior-living CEOs/CFOs will speak on hot topics in health care, and how they affect the successes of day-to-day operations.

The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) was implemented on Oct. 17, 2005. This panel of experts will provide their perspectives on the impacts of the law on consumer and business bankruptcies in the 20 years since the law went into effect. John Penn of Perkins Coie (Dallas), who served as ABI's president when BAPCPA became law, will be joined by two former bankruptcy judges who were on the bench at the time of the law's implementation to discuss the developments brought about by BAPCPA, and to share their views on potential bankruptcy law reforms moving forward.

Hosted by the Asset Sales CommitteePost-confirmation fiduciaries (trustees, plan administrators and wind-down officers) typically have discrete residual assets that need to be monetized. This webinar will discuss monetizing life insurance policies, partnership interests, judgments, litigation, and other known or unknown remnant assets.

This session will explore key ethical issues facing bankruptcy practitioners and judges, including professional responsibility, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, and duties to clients, creditors and the court. The panelists will examine recent case law, evolving ethical standards, and practical guidance for navigating complex situations in bankruptcy practice.

This session will cover pending pertinent U.S. Supreme Court and appellate cases, as well as recently decided cases.

This panel will provide an update on today’s retail restructuring landscape by discussing hot topics in retail bankruptcy cases, administrative solvency challenges, the “billing vs. accrual” approach in leases (Avianca Holdings), nondebtor releases and injunctions in sale orders, and chapter 15 and sales of U.S. assets “free and clear” (Goli). How far have we come over the years? What out-of-court solutions might work best?

CLE credit is not available for this session.This panel will review various macro issues that will likely impact the restructuring community in 2026, including trends associated with the private credit markets and the health care, retail and real estate sectors.

Resolved: The doctrine of in pari delicto should bar a trustee from recovering solely for the benefit of creditors.Resolved: The above transaction is an avoidable fraudulent conveyance, and the original lenders may recover more than via a general unsecured claim.A debtor engaged in an LME transaction in which the debtor received substantial liquidity by subordinating a debt secured by a first lien on the debtor’s principal assets to a new, more senior first lien. The debtor received desperately needed liquidity, but the subordination substantially impaired the recoveries received by the original first-lien lenders. A subsequent bankruptcy was filed within 18 months. Unsecured creditor recoveries will be 2%. The court determined that the subordination agreement violated the terms of the original loan agreements.

This panel will focus on chapter 7 trustee standing to pursue assets, plus the use of expert witnesses, sufficiency of complaints (Pack Liquidating) and sales of avoidance actions (South Coast). The panelists also will discuss recent case law on preference and fraudulent-transfer defenses, the extension of statutes of limitations (Kwok), and the role of both voluntary and mandatory mediation procedures.