Practice and Procedure

Calling all up-and-comers in the bankruptcy industry! Join us for this new, half-day program exclusively for emerging leaders attending the ABI Northeast Conference or Consumer Forum. We invite lawyers, financial advisors, bankers, etc. with less than 10 years of insolvency expertise, either consumer or business focus, to participate in an interactive program involving common insolvency issues facing junior insolvency professionals. Participants will break into small working groups led by emerging leader facilitators and bankruptcy judges to consider issues of substantive law as well as practical procedures for both the courtroom and boardroom. A reception for Emerging Leaders will immediately follow this program.

This panel will address various ethical issues including conflicts, chapter 7 bundling and payment arrangements, and chapter 11 retention and fee applications. Learn how to identify potential conflicts, and discover strategies to deal with them. The panel will also discuss the negotiation of fee agreements before and the application for payment of fees during bankruptcy cases.

This panel will address the selection and use of expert witnesses, including tips on how to select an expert, how to prepare an expert and what a judge might find most useful.

This panel will address numerous chapter 13 hot topics, such as the use of the national plan, modified national plan and local plans, the treatment of special claims in plans, end-of-case issues, the modification of plans and related topics.

Join authors of the newly published second edition of ABI’s Quick Evidence Handbook as they discuss best practices and inside tips for gathering and presenting evidence in bankruptcy court. The panel will explore common evidentiary issues encountered in a bankruptcy case and provide practical information for how to navigate those issues in a hearing or at trial. The webinar promises to be an interesting and valuable discussion for anyone participating in a bankruptcy litigation, from the novice lawyer approaching his or her first hearing or trial, to an experienced bankruptcy practitioner needing a refresher or new tips before heading into a contested hearing. This webinar is hosted by the Bankruptcy Litigation Committee.

Bankruptcy judges sound off on the best (and worst) behavior of our bankruptcy brothers and sisters. Join us in our first ABC-sponsored session!

Have you ever had your expert sink your case with the wrong words? This no longer needs to be the case. Learn how to get the best testimony out of nonprofessional witnesses, including business owners and CFOs. This panel will discuss various evidentiary matters, including the use of affidavits, how to get hearsay in, special rules for business owners (valuation testimony and how to make it credible), direct testimony and business records.

Hosted by the Unsecured Trade Creditors Committee The speakers for this webinar will discuss creative plan provisions, confirmation issues, and other tactics used to ‘stack the deck’. In addition, the panel will discuss gerrymandering, vote incentivization schemes, drop dead provisions and golden shares, and whether or not these schemes constitute creative lawyer or a contortion of the Code.