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ABI ONCE AGAIN PARTNERS WITH UMKC TO
HOLD THE 29TH
size='3'>ANNUAL MIDWESTERN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE PROGRAM IN
OCTOBER
June 17, 2009, Alexandria, Va.
— The American Bankruptcy Institute
(ABI) and the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law are again
partnering to present the 29th
Annual Midwestern Bankruptcy Institute program on Oct. 2.
The conference will take place at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown in
Kansas City, Mo. The Midwestern Bankruptcy Institute features
distinguished speakers on current developments. There will also be a
discounted Consumer Track featuring breakout sessions specifically
designed for consumer practitioners. Attendees will have the opportunity
to earn 8.0 hours of CLE credit, including 1.0 hour of
ethics.
Ronald S. Weiss of
Berman, DeLeve, Kuchan & Chapman, LC (Kansas City) and
face='Times New Roman'>Mark G.
Stingley of Bryan Cave LLP (Kansas City) are
the program co-chairs. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis R.
Dow (W.D. Mo.; Kansas City) is the judicial
chair of the Midwestern Bankruptcy Institute Program.
Bankruptcy Judges Dennis R. Dow
(W.D. Mo.; Kansas City) and
face='Times New Roman'>Robert
E. Nugent (D. Kan.; Wichita) will
join Barkley Clark of Stinson
Morrison Hecker, LLP (Kansas City) for the “Case Law Update”
plenary session.
ABI Resident Scholar Prof. Adam J.
Levitin of the Georgetown University Law
Center (Washington, D.C.) will provide the luncheon keynote, a
legislative update on “Views from Inside the Capital
Beltway.”
The conference will also feature ABI’s popular
“Great Debates” program, consisting of three debates
moderated by Paul D. Sinclair of
Polsinelli Shughart PS (Kansas City). In Debate No. 1, “Section
548(c)'s Good-Faith Defense Should Be Unavailable in Ponzi Scheme
Cases,”
face='Times New Roman' size='3'>Brian L. Shaw
size='3'>of Shaw Gussis Fishman Glantz Wolfson & Towbin LLC
(Chicago) will debate Keith M.
Aurzada of Bryan Cave LLP
(Dallas).
In Debate No. 2, “Congress Must Allow Courts to
Lienstrip Home Mortgages,” Tara Twomey
of the National Consumer Law Center (Carmel, Calif.) will
debate Paul H. Berens of
Bradshaw, Steele, Cochrane & Berens (Cape Girardeau,
Mo.).
In Debate No. 3, “In Applying the Means Test,
the Court May Determine the Necessity and Reasonableness of Payments on
Secured Debts,”
face='Times New Roman' size='3'>Gil Weisman of
Becket & Lee, LLP (Malvern, Pa.) will debate Bankruptcy
Judge Arthur B. Federman (W.D.
Mo.; Kansas City).
Also included in the programming is a “Judges
Roundtable,”moderated by Mark A.
Shaiken of Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP (Kansas
City, Mo.), with Bankruptcy Judges Robert D.
Berger (D. Kan.; Kansas City),
size='3'>Dennis R. Dow (W.D. Mo.; Kansas
City), Arthur B. Federman (W.D.
Mo.; Kansas City),
face='Times New Roman' size='3'>Janice M. Karlin
size='3'>(D. Kan.; Topeka), Robert E.
Nugent (D. Kan.; Wichita),
face='Times New Roman'>Dale L.
Somers (D. Kan.; Topeka),
face='Times New Roman'>Kathy A.
Surratt-States (E.D. Mo.; St. Louis)
and Jerry W. Venters (W.D. Mo.;
Kansas City).
The Business Track breakout sessions
include:
The “Business Ethics: Counseling the Closely
Held Corporate Debtor: Bankruptcy Planning and Professional
Ethics” session will be discussed by Prof.
face='Times New Roman'>Jeffrey
W. Morris of the University of Dayton School
of Law and Of Counsel, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur (Dayton,
Ohio) and Bankruptcy Judge Jerry W.
Venters (W.D. Mo.; Kansas
City).
“The Baptist Foundation of Arizona - A Chapter
11 Case Where the Ponzi Scheme was in the Church” session will be
discussed by Clifton R. Jessup, Jr. of
Greenberg Traurig, LLP (Dallas).
Daniel F. Dooley of
MorrisAnderson & Associates, Ltd. (Chicago), ABI Resident Scholar
Prof. Adam J. Levitin of the
Georgetown University Law Center (Washington, D.C.),
face='Times New Roman'>Deborah
L. Thorne of Barnes & Thornburg LLP
(Chicago) and
face='Times New Roman' size='3'>John Tittle, Jr.
size='3'>of NachmanHaysBrownstein, Inc. (Dallas) will participate in the
“Financing a Chapter 11 - Pre, During, and Exit”
session.
The Consumer Track breakout sessions
include:
The “Consumer Ethics: Prebankruptcy Estate
Planning” session will feature panelists Thomas M.
Mullinix of Evans & Mullinix, PA (Shawnee
Mission, Kan.),
face='Times New Roman' size='3'>Robert J. Blackwell
size='3'>of Blackwell & Associates, PC (Fallon, Mo.)
and Bruce E. Strauss of Merrick,
Baker & Strauss, PC (Kansas City, Mo.).
Jay Fleischman of
Fleischman Consumer Law Center (Brooklyn, N.Y.) will present the
“Discharge Violations and Protecting your Clients from Creditor
Abuses” session.
The “Representing Small Business Clients”
session includes panelists
face='Times New Roman' size='3'>Cynthia F. Grimes
size='3'>of Grimes & Rebein, LC (Lenexa, Kan.),
face='Times New Roman'>David P.
Leibowitz of Lakelaw/Leibowitz Law Center
(Waukegan, Ill.) and
face='Times New Roman' size='3'>Cathleen Cooper Moran
size='3'>of the Moran Law Group, Inc. (Mountain View,
Calif.).
Click on the link below for more information on the
29th Annual
Midwestern Bankruptcy Institute program.
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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 12,000 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors,
lenders, turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals
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