Back-to-Back Bankruptcies
This panel will discuss issues inherent when a client files multiple bankruptcies, including dismissal, discharge, automatic stay, lien-stripping, chapter 20, married debtors, co-debtors and more.
Business Development: How to Win Friends and Influence People
This panel will discuss how young professionals can grow their practices, maintain contacts, improve their reputations and bring in business.
Don’t Just Go Through the Motions: Effective Motions Practice in Bankruptcy Court and Trial Advocacy Tips
This session will discuss motions to dismiss and motions for summary judgment, plus discovery and evidentiary motions, and tips on how to use motions practice to your advantage in adversary proceedings and contested matters.
Case Law Update: 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.
Supreme Court Round-Up
Oyez, oyez, oyez, all attendees are admonished to draw near and give their undivided attention to this panel as it delivers the most recent and updated analyses on this term’s U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
Student Loans
This panel will discuss the discharging of student loan debts, bankruptcy trustees and the avoidance of tuition payments, undue hardship and real life applications of these issues.
Chapter 7 Issues and Hot Topics
This panel will review important exemption cases post Law v. Siegel as well as membership interests in bankruptcies, wage garnishment preference claims and case law developments post Husky.
Trusts and Other Interests
The panel will explore various express and implied trust interests and the issues they raise in bankruptcy, from what becomes property of the estate to exemption and avoidance issues, including under Bankruptcy Code Section 548(e) directed at domestic asset protection and other self-settled trusts.
Chapter 13 Potpourri
This panel will discuss the plan effective date, rule amendments and plan confirmations.
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