ABIs Chicago Consumer Bankruptcy Conference to be Held October 11

Contact: John Hartgen

            

703-894-5935

            

jhartgen@abiworld.org

ABI’S CHICAGO CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY CONFERENCE
TO BE HELD OCTOBER 11

July 28, 2010, Alexandria, Va. — Chicago-area consumer
bankruptcy practitioners will have the opportunity to examine current
issues affecting the profession at the American Bankruptcy
Institute’s (ABI’s) Third Annual Chicago Consumer Bankruptcy

Conference on Oct. 11 at the Gleacher Center at The University of
Chicago Booth School of Business. Faculty members include experienced
local chapter 7 and 13 consumer attorneys, bankruptcy judges and panel
trustees from the Northern District of Illinois and a representative
from the Chicago Office of the U.S. Trustee. Attendees have the
opportunity to earn 5.5 CLE credits, including 1.25 ethics credits.

Co-chairs for the Chicago Consumer Bankruptcy Conference are
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Shaw of Shaw Gussis Fishman Glantz Wolfson & Towbin LLC
(Chicago) and Bankruptcy Judge
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Chicago).

Panel sessions include:

• Ethics and Professional Responsibility: What Your Appearance
  Obligates You to Do for Your Client
• Is It or Isn't It? Property of the Estate and Exemptions in Consumer

  Bankruptcy Cases

• Chapter 13: Fees, Lienstripping and Other Current Developments
  Regarding Consumer Mortgages
• The Supreme Court and Consumer Bankruptcy: A Year (or so) in Review
  and Its Effect on Your Practice
• Means Test: Update 2010

To view the full list of expert speakers at the Chicago Consumer
Bankruptcy Conference, please visit
href='http://www.abiworld.org/Chicago10/schedule.html'>http://www.abiworld.org/Chicago10/schedule.html.

The conference will also feature a luncheon keynote by
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Peterson of Jenner & Block LLP (Chicago).

For more information on ABI’s Consumer Bankruptcy Conference,
please visit
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Roman'>http://www.abiworld.org/Chicago10/.   

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ABI is the largest multi-disciplinary, nonpartisan organization
dedicated to research and education on matters related to insolvency.
ABI was founded in 1982 to provide Congress and the public with unbiased

analysis of bankruptcy issues. The ABI membership includes more than
12,600 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders,
turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals, providing a
forum for the exchange of ideas and information. For additional
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