Committee Educational Sessions - Labor and Employment/International Committies: Labor and Employment Issues in Cross-Border Cases
Labor and Employment Issues in Cross-Border Cases
Committee Educational Sessions - Consumer Bankruptcy
Surviving Individual Business Bankruptcies- Considerations when choosing between Chapter 13 and Chapter 11
Financial Track: ABI/TMA Panel: The Financial Professional’s Role in Out-of-Court Restructurings and Dissolutions
In today’s marketplace, more and more thought is being given to pursuing state law remedies rather than commencing chapter 11 cases. This is especially true in the middle market. This panel will discuss the financial professional’s role and obligations in out-of-court restructuring solutions, including compositions, foreclosures, assignments for the benefit of creditors and asset sales.
Professional Development Track: Training the Senior Partner
A panel of younger lawyers/financial professionals will talk about the issues and challenges of working for senior lawyers and suggest ways to improve the working relationship between senior and junior lawyers.
Professional Development Track: Social Media: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
This panel will discuss a variety of issues arising due to the explosion of social media communications. Topics will include property rights, evidence, spoliation, ethics and trustee investigation duties.
Professional Development Track: Civility in the Restructuring Profession
A panel of participants in ABI’s Civility Task Force will discuss the work of the task force in an interactive program designed to further the conversation about civility in our profession.
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.