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ABI’s
MID-ATLANTIC BANKRUPTCY WORKSHOP FEATURES TEN BANKRUPTCY
JUDGES

April 13, 2006, Alexandria,
Va. — Ten bankruptcy judges are part of the faculty for

ABI’s Second Annual Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop, to be held
Aug. 3-5, 2006, at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay in Cambridge, Md.
More than 250 attendees are expected to take part in the event, which
brings together this region’s preeminent insolvency professionals
for three days of intense learning and networking, with the opportunity
to earn 9 CLE credits, including 1 hour of ethics.

Sessions at the Workshop
include:

  • “Inconsistent or
    Reconcilable?: The Mixed Blessings of Circuit Splits,” a breakfast

    plenary session, moderated by Bonnie Glantz Fatell of Blank Rome
    LLP (Wilmington, Del.) features a panel that includes Judges Nancy V.

    Alquist (Baltimore), Judith Wizmur (Camden, N.J.) and Kay
    Woods     (Youngstown, Ohio).

  • Judge Richard E.
    Fehling     (Reading, Pa.) will moderate “’War Is Not the
    Answer’: Alternative Dispute Resolution in Bankruptcy” with
    panelists Neil Gilmour of  Executive Sounding Board
    Associates Inc. (Philadelphia), Diane E. Vuocolo of Greenberg
    Traurig LLP (Philadelphia), Neal D. Colton of Cozen
    O’Connor (Philadelphia) and Frank A. Monaco, Jr. of Monzack

    & Monaco PA (Wilmington, Del.).

  • The “’If We Let
    Them Eat Cake, Do They Have to Pay for It?’ Consumer Bankruptcy
    After BAPCPA” session will be moderated by Judge John J.
    Thomas     (Wilkes Barre, Pa.) and will

    include panelists Alane A. Becket of Becket & Lee LLP
    (Malvern,
    w:st='on'>Pa.    ), Robert R. Weed of the Bankruptcy Law
    Office of Robert Weed (Alexandria, Va.) and Michael B. Joseph, a
    U.S. Chapter 13 Trustee (Wilmington, Del.).

  • Judge Brendan Linehan
    Shannon     (Wilmington, Del.) will moderate the “Bankruptcy Goes
    Global: Cross-Border Insolvency Including Ambiguous Issues under Chapter

    15, Avoidance Actions, Discharge Issues and Priority of Foreign
    Claims” session, featuring panelists Mary F. Caloway of
    Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling PC (Wilmington,
    Del.),  
    size='3'>Vincent J. Marriott, III    , of Ballard Spahr Andrews
    & Ingersoll LLP (Philadelphia), Garry M. Graber of Hodgson
    Russ LLP (Buffalo, N.Y.) and John J. Jerome of Saul Ewing LLP
    (Philadelphia).
  • “Report from the Front:
    Creditor Committees after BAPCPA,” moderated by Judge Jeffrey
    A. Deller     (Pittsburgh), will include panelists Laura Davis
    Jones     of Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young, Jones & Weintraub PC
    (Wilmington, Del.), Edward T. Gavin, IV of 
    NachmanHaysBrownstein, Inc. (Philadelphia), Adam G. Landis of
    Landis Rath & Cobb LLP (Wilmington, Del.) and Mary E. Seymour

    of Lowenstein Sandler PC (Roseland, N.J.).

  • The “’If You
    Can’t Do the Time’ Bankruptcy Crimes and Fraud”
    session will feature moderator U.S. Trustee for Region 3 Kelly
    Beaudin Stapleton     (Philadelphia) and panelists Richard E.
    Byrne     of the Executive Office of the U.S. Trustee (Washington,
    D.C.), Richard M. Kremen of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP
    (Baltimore),     Stephen A.
    Donato     of Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC (Syracuse, N.Y.)
    and Ronald S. Gellert of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC
    (Wilmington, Del.).
  • “The Swing of the
    Pendulum: Chapter 11 after BAPCPA” will be moderated by Judge
    Raymond T. Lyons (Trenton, N.J),
    who will be joined by panelists Rudolph J. DiMassa, Jr., of Duane

    Morris LLP (Philadelphia), Brett D. Fallon of Morris, James,
    Hitchens & Williams LLP (Wilmington, Del.), Linda V.
    Donhauser     of Miles & Stockbridge PC (Baltimore) and Claudia
    Z. Springer     of Reed Smith LLP (Philadelphia).

  • Judge Robert G. Mayer
    (Alexandria,
    Va.    ) will moderate the
    “’In Your Expert Opinion…’ The Art of Expert
    Testimony in Bankruptcy” session, which will feature panelists
    Robert J. Dehney of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP
    (Wilmington,
    Del.    ), John C.
    Goodchild, III     of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (Philadelphia),
    Robert A. Kargen of White and Williams LLP (Philadelphia) and
    Edward J. Sebold of Jones Day (Cleveland).

  • “Intangible but Very
    Real: Licenses and Intellectual Property in Bankruptcy,” moderated

    by Judge Lawrence S. Walter (
    w:st='on'>Dayton    , Ohio),
    will include panelists Raymond H. Lemisch of Adelman Lavine Gold
    and Levin PC (
    w:st='on'>Wilmington    ,
    w:st='on'>Del.    ), Edward C. Dolan of Hogan

    & Hartson LLP (Washington, D.C.), Lawrence E. Oscar of Hahn
    Loeser & Parks LLP (Cleveland) and H. Jeffrey Schwartz

    of Dechert, LLP (New York).

  • The breakfast plenary session
    “Ethics: Calibrate Your Compass!” will feature Prof.
    Mark D. Yochum of
    w:st='on'>Duquesne
    w:st='on'>University
    w:st='on'>Law
    w:st='on'>School     (
    w:st='on'>Pittsburgh    ).

Program chairs are Rudolph
(“Skip”) DiMassa of Duane Morris (
w:st='on'>Philadelphia) and Laura Davis Jones of Pachulski,
Stang, Ziehl, Young, Jones & Weintraub PC (
w:st='on'>Wilmington,
w:st='on'>Del.). Howard Brod Brownstein of
NachmanHaysBrownstein Inc. (
w:st='on'>Narbeth,
w:st='on'>Pa.) headed up the educational panels.

The judicial chairs are Judges Judith Fitzgerald (W.D.
w:st='on'>Pa.) and Mary Walrath (
w:st='on'>Del.).

For more information about the
Second Annual Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop, call ABI at (703)
739-0800 or visit

href='/MA06'>http://www.abiworld.org/MA06.

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