2023 Annual Spring Meeting

2023 Annual Spring Meeting, one of the most significant annual gatherings of bankruptcy and insolvency professionals in the country! ABI’s Annual Spring Meeting provides the ultimate in learning and networking opportunities for the insolvency community. Your next big deal or career-boosting connection could be just a click away. 

This panel discusses cutting-edge issues involving the use of AI in law practice, and ethical questions and potential pitfalls surrounding its use by lawyers and legal professionals.

This panel delves into everything you ever wanted to know about the intersection of construction law and bankruptcy.

What is a DSO, and what does that bankruptcy provision in every Property Settlement Agreement mean, anyway? What debts are dischargeable, and if it is called “support,” is it truly support? Does the stay need to be modified post-petition in a chapter 13, and what do you do when a current chapter 13 client ends up in divorce court? This panel will address these questions and more, including the differences between chapters 7 and 13, and what actions are stayed.

Join ABI’s executive director for a discussion with experts on (and close to) the Hill as they analyze current, pending and expected legislation addressing key insolvency issues

This session will delve into what is happening at the circuit level regarding jurisdiction and standing, and how both bankruptcy practitioners and judges could be affected — regardless of what types of cases they typically see.

This panel will compare and contrast the roles of chapter 11 trustees, chapter 7 trustees, CROs and independent directors when a case is fraudulent.

This panel focuses on material tax issues that every bankruptcy attorney should know that can impact both estate administration and bankruptcy plans. The panelists highlight issues that should be considered when a company is considering filing for bankruptcy or is in bankruptcy, such as tax attribute planning and preservation, management of COD income in connection with liability management transactions, “significant modification” of debt and how to minimize consequences, the considerations if the debtor is a partnership or a corporation, associated state tax issues, and key tax return compliance implications.

This panel will explore industry trends and commonalities between the parallel issues of failing health care systems and debtors bankrupted by medical debt. The panelists will discuss and debate what could happen when these two debtor groups overwhelm the bankruptcy system, the challenges that health care debtors, consumer debtors and insurance payors face today, and how practitioners across various insolvency disciplines involved in these industries can plan for the future with these trends on the horizon.

This panel will discuss the following issues regarding crypto, distinguishing customer property from property of the estate, understanding crypto valuation issues, distribution options in crypto cases, M&A risks and pitfalls, effectively using social media to communicate with a large customer base, juggling cash and crypto management, and debtor-on-debtor violence.