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Welcome back to what feels like “home” for the 27th Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop: The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island in Amelia Island, Florida! Between the fine dining and relaxing days on the beach, get a healthy dose of bankruptcy CLE from an outstanding faculty of regional judges, academics and practitioners. Design your own workshop experience with business, consumer and skill-focused sessions. Bring the family and enjoy a private beach area set aside just for Workshop attendees and their guests.

The workshop will review the biology behind the rewarding properties of drugs of abuse, how the brain changes in response to repeated drug use, thereby becoming 'addicted', the role of genetics in addiction, and the important role of stress in maintaining addiction. The presentation will conclude with a summary of addiction treatments, including cutting-edge research on a surprising new treatment approach.

This panel will provide insolvency professionals with practical business-development tips from numerous perspectives.

This panel will explore the ins and out of blockchain, related cryptocurrency marketing concepts including mining, Ethereum, DeFi, DAOs and stablecoins, current regulatory issues involving cryptocurrency, how cryptocurrency has made its way into the bankruptcy arena so far, and how bankruptcy practitioners can prepare for crypto-related bankruptcy issues in the future.

On behalf of our faculty and the Northeast Advisory Board, we are pleased to welcome you back to the in-person Northeast Bankruptcy Conference and Northeast Consumer Forum! The advisory board has assembled a roster of great speakers on a wide variety of timely topics that offer something for everyone. Plus, you can enjoy Maine’s beautiful landscape while staying at the historical Samoset Resort overlooking Penobscot Bay. In between educational sessions and networking opportunities, you can take advantage of the resort’s many recreational activities and the coastal town of Rockland, Maine, situated less than 10 minutes’ drive away.

ABI will team up with IWIRC for an exciting and interactive discussion of real-world ethical dilemmas arising in bankruptcy practice, including while working from home. Play along with our panel of lawyers and judges as they discuss the “3 Cs” — confidentiality, communication and competence — along with information hygiene, duty to supervise, remote depositions and trials, judicial ethics, and much, much more!

Think you can cross-examine the opposing expert on her/his opinions that have been rejected or criticized in the past? Not so fast. What’s the appropriate premise of value? How many feet from the deathbed does the debtor have to be to adopt a liquidation premise? Does satisfaction of a contractual obligation conclusively establish reasonably equivalent value? Must you also avoid the obligation? What are the ways to establish compliance with industry standards under § 547(c)(2)? Will a fact witness suffice? What do you do when the opposing expert (or your own!) offers an opinion that’s not disclosed in the expert’s report? This panel of experts, litigators and a retiring judge will tackle these common-but-complex evidentiary issues.

Survey the landscape of filing trends through the first half of 2022 (Jan. 1-June 30), and gain an informed statistical perspective of what could happen next in bankruptcy, with this panel of key experts, who will be utilizing data provided by Epiq Bankruptcy Analytics.