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size='3'>ABI’S POPULAR NORTHEAST BANKRUPTCY CONFERENCE AND
CONSUMER FORUM TO ADDRESS CURRENT BANKRUPTCY AND ECONOMIC
TOPICS

March 24, 2008,
Alexandria, Va. –More than 400 practitioners will join a
15-judge faculty at ABI’s 15th Annual Northeast
Bankruptcy Conference, July 10-13 in Brewster, Mass., at the Ocean Edge
Resort & Club. The conference provides up to 9.25 hours of
continuing education credits including 1.5 hours of ethics. This
year’s conference will again offer a separate 2-day consumer forum

at a reduced conference rate.

Programs at the main conference

include:

The “Sunny Side Up, or
Down? Breakfast on the Economy” session with moderator Stephen
B. Darr of Mesirow Financial Consulting, LLC (
w:st='on'>Boston) and panelists Bankruptcy Judge Hon. H.
Louis Kornreich (D. Maine; Bangor),  Carl Steidtmann of
Deloitte (New York) and David Wyss of Standard & Poor’s

(New York).

Michael J.
Goldberg of Cohn, Whitesell & Goldberg LLP (
w:st='on'>Boston) will
moderate the “Current
Issues in Commercial Leasing” session with panelists Paul W.
Carey of Mirick O'Connell DeMallie & Lougee, LLP (
w:st='on'>Worcester,
w:st='on'>Mass.), Mark Duston of DJM
Asset Management LLC (Melville, N.Y.) and Bankruptcy Judge Brian K.
Tester (D. P.R.; San Juan).

“Appellate Advocacy
Skills,” moderated by Kenneth S. Leonetti of Foley Hoag LLP

(Boston), features panelists Prof.
Thomas Carey of Boston
College
w:st='on'>Law
w:st='on'>School (Newton,

Mass.) and Bankruptcy Judge James B.

Haines, Jr. (D. Maine; Portland) and
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thomas M. Hardiman (Third Circuit;

w:st='on'>Pittsburgh).

Moderator Daniel W.
Sklar of The Daymark Group LLC (Manchester, N.H.), along with
panelists James C. Ebbert of McShane Group, Inc. (Rockland,
Maine), Michael J. Fencer of Jager Smith PC (Boston) and James

E. Fleet of  Phoenix Management Services, Inc. (Boston), will
participate in the “You Can’t Treat the Patient without a
Diagnosis: Identifying Causes of Business Failure”
session.

“Current Issues in
Avoidance Actions” will be moderated by H. Jeffrey Schwartz

of Dechert LLP (New York) and feature
panelists Jonathan R. Doolittle of Verrill Dana LLP (
w:st='on'>Portland, Maine),
James S. Lamontagne of Sheehan, Phinney, Bass + Green (
w:st='on'>Manchester, N.H.)
and Bankruptcy Judge Mark W. Vaughn (D. N.H.;
w:st='on'>
w:st='on'>Manchester).

The “Gaining Support from

All of Your Constituencies” session, moderated by Thomas O.
Bean of McDermott Will & Emery, LLP (
w:st='on'>Boston) will feature Bankruptcy Judge Judith K.
Fitzgerald (W.D. Pa.; Pittsburgh),
Martha E.M. Kopacz of Grant Thornton LLP (
w:st='on'>New York) and Daniel J. Callaghan of Devine

Millimet & Branch PA (
w:st='on'>Manchester,
w:st='on'>N.H.).

Daniel M.
Glosband of Goodwin Procter LLP (
w:st='on'>Boston) will moderate the “Cross-Border
Issues Coming to Your Town” session with panelists Bankruptcy
Judge Gerardo Carlo (D. P.R.; San
Juan), Brian Cassady of Black Management Advisors
(Miami) and Tracey C. Sandler of
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (
w:st='on'>Toronto).

“Troubled Portfolio
Companies,” moderated by
w:st='on'>Christine D. Lynch of Goulston
& Storrs, PC (Boston), will feature
panelists Michael J. Epstein of CRG Partners (
w:st='on'>Boston), Douglas R. Gooding of Choate, Hall
& Stewart LLP (Boston) and Stephen

Moeller-Sally of Ropes & Gray LLP (
w:st='on'>Boston).

The “Privileges,
Exceptions and Civil and Criminal Liability” session will be
moderated by Robert E. Kaelin of Murtha Cullina LLP (
w:st='on'>Hartford,
w:st='on'>Conn.) and feature panelists
Michael J. Missal of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates
Ellis, LLP (Washington, D.C.), William J. Hanlon of Seyfarth Shaw

LLP (Boston), M. Stephanie Wickouski of Drinker Biddle &
Reath LLP (New York).

Moderator Adrienne
Walker of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, PC
(Boston) and panelists John P.
Fitzgerald of the Office of the U.S. Trustee (
w:st='on'>Boston), Bankruptcy Judge Robert E. Gerber
(S.D.N.Y., New York) and Pamela A.
Harbeson of Looney & Grossman LLP (Boston) will participate in
the “Avoiding Administrative Insolvency” session.

The “Hot Topics in Claims

Purchasing and Trading” session will be moderated by Victor G.
Milione of Nixon Peabody LLP (Boston)

and feature panelists Jeanne P. Darcey of Edwards Angell Palmer
& Dodge LLP (Boston),

w:st='on'>Christopher Moon of Merrill
Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith (New
York) and Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth S. Stong
(E.D.N.Y.; Brooklyn).

ABI Resident Scholar
Jack Williams will
moderate the “Seaside Chat” with Bankruptcy Judges Henry
J. Boroff (D. Mass.; Worcester) and Joan N. Feeney (D. Mass.;


w:st='on'>Boston).

Bruce A. Harwood
of Sheehan, Phinney, Bass + Green (
w:st='on'>Manchester, Mass.)

will moderate the “View from the Bench: Supreme Court Year in
Review” session featuring Bankruptcy Judges Henry J. Boroff

(D. Mass.; Worcester), Joan N. Feeney (D. Mass.; Boston),
Judith K. Fitzgerald (W.D. Pa.; Pittsburgh), Robert E.
Gerber (S.D.N.Y.; New York) and Joel B. Rosenthal (D. Mass.;
Worcester).

In conjunction with the Northeast
Bankruptcy Conference, ABI’s Third Annual Northeast Consumer
Forum, will be held July 11-12 and focus on consumer bankruptcy
educational programs designed for both experienced and new
professionals. Back by popular demand, this two-day forum offers
insolvency practitioners an opportunity to earn approximately 6.0 hours
of CLE/CPE credit.

The Consumer Forum programs
include:

“Messing with Mortgages:
Continuing Consumer and Creditor Confusion,” moderated by
Catherine V. Eastwood of Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP (Warwick,
R.I.), features panelists Richard I. Isacoff of Richard I.
Isacoff, P.C. (Pittsfield, Mass.), William McLeod of McLeod Law
Offices (Boston) and Bankruptcy Judge Joel B. Rosenthal (D.
Mass.; Worcester).

Eleanor William
Dahar of Victor W. Dahar, PA (Manchester, N.H.) will moderate

“The Bursting Bubble: Behind on Mortgages and Car Loans—Is
Chapter 13 an Option?” session with panelists Steven J.
Boyajian of Boyajian, Harrington & Richardson (Providence,
R.I.), John McNicholas of Ablitt & Charlton, PC (Stoneham,
Mass.) and Bankruptcy Judge Colleen Brown (D. Vt.; Rutland).

“BAPCPA Three Years
Later: Through the Looking Glass—How Is It Down the Rabbit
Hole?” will be moderated by Justin H. Dion of Bacon &
Wilson, P.C. (
w:st='on'>Springfield,
w:st='on'>Mass.) and feature panelists
Kristin McDonough of Riemer & Braunstein LLP (Boston) and
Bankruptcy Judge Eugene R. Wedoff (N.D. Ill.;
Chicago).

The “Fables and Fairy
Tales…How the Practice Has Evolved” session, moderated by
Assistant U.S. Trustee Geraldine L. Karonis (D. N.H.;
Manchester), will feature panelists William M. Gillen of the Law
Offices of William M. Gillen (
w:st='on'>Manchester,
w:st='on'>N.H.), Bankruptcy Judge Enrique S.
Lamoutte (D. P.R.; San Juan) and David N. Ostrander of
Ostrander Law Office (Northhampton, Mass.).

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Northeast Consumer Forum, visit
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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
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attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround

specialists and other bankruptcy professionals, providing a forum for
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