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LABOR,
ETHICAL ISSUES IN BANKRUPTCY AND ECONOMIC FORECASTS AMONG THE TIMELY
TOPICS AT ABI’S WINTER LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
size='3'>August 23, 2006, Alexandria, Va.
size='3'>— The American Bankruptcy Institute’s (ABI)
Eighteenth Annual Winter Leadership Conference will take place Nov. 30
– Dec. 2, 2006, at the Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort and Spa at
Gainey Ranch in
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conference will feature seven bankruptcy judges and address such timely
bankruptcy topics as labor vs. management issues, supply contracts and a
financial forecast of industry sectors for 2007. Program chair for the
conference is ABI Education Vice President Robert J. Keach of
Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson PA (
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Winter Leadership Conference also offers participants the opportunity to
earn 11.75 CLE credit hours, including 3.0 hours of
ethics.
Publisher and former
Presidential candidate Steve Forbes will be the featured speaker at this
year’s conference as he discusses the
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community.
Panel sessions
include:
Bankruptcy Judge
Eugene R. Wedoff
(Chicago) will moderate the “Management vs. Labor:
The Collision of Bankruptcy and Labor Law and Policy” session,
featuring panelists
size='3'>Richard Bank of the AFL–CIO
(Washington, D.C.),
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& Simon LLP (New York),
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finance for Northwest Airlines and the former CFO of U.S. Airways
(Eagan, Minn.) and Brian
P. Leitch of Arnold & Porter LLP
(Denver).
“Thinking Outside
the Bankruptcy Box: Nonbankruptcy Options for Entities and Individuals
after BAPCPA” will be moderated by Geoffrey L. Berman of
Development Specialists, Inc. (Los Angeles) and feature panelists
Robbin L. Itkin
of Kirkland & Ellis LLP (Los Angeles),
Richard C. Kennedy
of Kennedy, Koontz & Farinash (Chattanooga, Tenn.),
Prof. Ronald J.
Mann of the University of Texas School of Law
(Austin) and R. Scott
Williams of Haskell Slaughter Young &
Rediker, LLC (
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Moderator
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size='3'>of Barnes & Thornburg, LLP (
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Rapids
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Nancy Roberts
size='3'>of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (Toronto),
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GE Plastics (Huntersville, N.C.) and Bankruptcy Judge
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size='3'>(Las Vegas) for the “Supply Contracts in Chapter 11
Cases: Executory Contracts, Forward Contracts, Sales of Goods (or All of
the Above)?” session.
“The ‘New
Lenders’: Second-Lien Financing, ‘Loan to Own,’ DIPs
to Sell and Other Problems of Nontraditional Players in the
Distress-Lending Market” features moderator
size='3'>Jo Ann J. Brighton of Kennedy
Covington Lobdell & Hickman, LLP (Charlotte, N.C.) and
panelists Mark N.
Berman of Nixon Peabody LLP (Boston), Thomas
Cambern of Wachovia
Capital Markets LLC (Charlotte, N.C.), Glenn E. Siegel of Dechert,
LLP (New York) and John
T. Todd of Special Investments
CapitalSource/DMD Special Situations (Chicago).
size='3'>Richardo I. Kilpatrick of Kilpatrick
& Associates, PC (
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“Matters of First Impression–Consumer: BAPCPA’s
Consumer Bankruptcy Provisions in Practice and in the Courts,” and
will be joined by panelists
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Majoros, PC (
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Bankruptcy Judge Eileen
W. Hollowell (Tucson, Ariz.),
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size='3'>of Dennis LeVine & Associates, PA (Tampa, Fla.) and
Robert H.
Waldschmidt of Howell & Fisher (Nashville,
Tenn.).
“Matters of First
Impression–Business: The Death of Retail Chapter 11? BAPCPA in
Practice in Retail Bankruptcy Cases” will be moderated by
Laura Davis Jones
of Pachulski Stang Ziehl Young Jones & Weintraub LLP
(
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panelists Ivan
Gold of Allen Matkins (
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Francisco
Lieb Weiner & Hellman, LLP (New York), Steve Liff of Sun Capital
Partners (Los Angeles) and
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Advisors LLC (Chicago).
Moderator
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size='3'>of Goodwin Procter LLP (
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will be joined by a panel including Bankruptcy Judge
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size='3'>of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP (Phoenix),
Peter Spratt
size='3'>of PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Restructuring Services (New
York) and Derrick
Tay of Ogilvy Renault (Toronto) for
“Matters of First Impression–International: Chapter
15’s New Cross-Border Bankruptcy Provisions in Practice and in the
Courts.”
“Fuel Price
Fatigue, Fleeing Foreign Capital, Fed Funds Forecasts and the Future:
Which Sectors of the Economy Will Thrive (or Dive) in 2007?” will
include featured guest speaker
size='3'>Gary Zimmerman of the U.S. Federal
Reserve Bank (San Francisco) along with panelists
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size='3'>of AlixPartners LLC (New York), William Q. Derrough of
Jefferies & Company, Inc. (New York) and Stephen B. Darr of Mesirow
Financial Consulting, LLC (Boston).
“
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Duties and Beyond: Ethical Problems of Committee
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Representation in a ‘Hedge-Fund World,’” moderated
by Kurt F.
Gwynne of Reed Smith LLP (Wilmington, Del.),
will feature panelists Bankruptcy Judge Bruce A. Markell (Las Vegas),
Eve H. Karasik of Stutman, Treister & Glatt, PC (Los
Angeles), Harvey R.
Miller of Greenhill & Co., Inc. (New York)
and Diana G.
Adams, Acting U.S. Trustee (New
York).
“Independent
Counsel or Watchdog? Ethically Juggling the Multiple Roles of Consumer
Counsel” will feature moderator Claire Ann Resop of Brennan,
Steil & Basting, SC (Madison, Wis.) and a panel including Bankruptcy
Judges Peter
Bowie (San Diego) and
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W. Rhodes (
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Swanson of Steinhilber, Swanson, Mares, Marone
& McDermott (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Felicia S. Turner of Office of
the U.S. Trustee, Region 21 (Atlanta).
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For more information on the
Winter Leadership Conference, please visit
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