Contact: John Hartgen
(703) 739-0800
SEVEN
BANKRUPTCY JUDGES AND LEADING PRACTITIONERS TO GATHER AT ABI’s
SOUTHEAST BANKRUPTCY WORKSHOP JULY 25-28
April 24, 2007,
Alexandria,
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bankruptcy judges and more than 300 attendees will gather to discuss the
latest bankruptcy topics at ABI’s Twelfth Annual Southeast
Bankruptcy Workshop. The workshop will be held from July 25-28, 2007, at
The Sanctuary at
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region’s top insolvency professionals for four days of intense
learning and networking. Attendees also have the opportunity to earn
13.5 hours of CLE credits, including 1.5 hours of ethics.
Program co-chairs for the
Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop include James D. Decker of Houlihan
Lokey Howard & Zukin (
Patricia A. Redmond of Stearns, Weaver, Miller, Weissler,
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workshop is Bankruptcy Judge Margaret A. Mahoney (
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Highlighting the panel sessions
will be the “ABI Presidents Panel: Advocacy in Your Bankruptcy
Practice” that will feature former ABI presidents Andrew W.
Caine of Pachulski Stang Ziehl Young Jones & Weintraub LLP (Los
Angeles), Ford Elsaesser of Elsaesser, Jarzabek, Anderson, Marks,
Elliott & McHugh, Chtd. (Sandpoint, Idaho), Robert M. Fishman
of Shaw Gussis Fishman Glantz Wolfson & Towbin LLC (Chicago),
John D. Penn of Haynes and Boone, LLP (Fort Worth, Texas),
Michael P. Richman of Foley & Lardner LLP (New York),
Bettina M. Whyte of MBIA Insurance Corporation (Armonk, N.Y.) and
Deborah D. Williamson of Cox Smith Matthews Inc. (
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Antonio
Sessions at the Workshop
include:
The “Consumer Bankruptcy
Developments” plenary session will feature Bankruptcy Judges
Laurel Myerson Isicoff (
A.Thomas Small (
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Moderator John C.
“Kit” Weitnauer of Alston & Bird LLP (
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Deutsche Bank Securities (
Robert B. Glenn of Glenn Rasmussen Fogarty & Hooker, PA
(
Cecelia G. Morris (
w:st='on'>Poughkeepsie
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“Complex Chapter 11 Developments” session.
“Ethics in the Real
World” will feature Lucian T. Pera of Adams & Reese LLP
(
O. Tice, Jr. (
w:st='on'>Richmond
w:st='on'>Va.
The “Outside of
Court/Outside the Box” session will be moderated by Judy D.
Thompson of Poyner & Spruill LLP (
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and feature panelists Robert M. Fishman of Shaw Gussis Fishman
Glantz Wolfson & Towbin LLC (Chicago), Charles M. Ivey, III
of Ivey, McClellan, Gatton & Talcott, LLP (
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and Mindy A. Mora of Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod,
LLP (
w:st='on'>Miami
“Post-BAPCPA Issues for
Attorneys Representing Individual Chapter 11 Debtors: Stays, Cases and
Ethical Obligations,” moderated by C.R. “Chip”
Bowles Jr. of Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC (
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Bankruptcy Judges Stan Bernstein (New York) and David T.
Stosberg (Louisville, Ky.) in addition to Felicia S. Turner
of the U.S. Trustees Office, Region 21 (Atlanta).
Brett H. Miller
of Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen, PC (New York) will
moderate “Troubled Industries–The Next Wave of Chapter
11s” featuring panelists Ronald F. Greenspan of FTI
Consulting, Inc. (
Michael Leo Hall of Burr & Forman LLP (
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and Peter L. Tourtellot of Anderson Bauman Tourtellot Vos &
Co. (
“Scams and Schemes: Fraud
in the Marketplace” will include panelists Leanne Gould of
GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group LLC (
w:st='on'>Atlanta
Company (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Harris Bryan Winsberg of
Troutman Sanders LLP; (Atlanta).
The “Cap Markets Update:
The Lenders' Views” session, moderated by Jesse H. Austin,
III of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP (Atlanta) will
include panelists Matthew B. Berk of Alvarez & Marsal, LLC
(Charlotte, N.C.), William C. Beebe of Silver Point Finance, LLC
(Atlanta), Patrick L. Bickers of SunTrust Bank (Atlanta),
James Cooper of CIT (Atlanta) and David Gittleman of
Cratos Capital (Alpharetta, Ga.).
“Litigation in Bankruptcy
Court: 2007 and Beyond” will be moderated by Dion W.
Hayes of McGuireWoods LLP (
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Judge C. Ray Mullins (Atlanta) and Charles W.
Throckmorton of Kozyak, Tropin & Throckmorton, PA (Coral Gables,
Fla.).
Bankruptcy Judges Laurel
Myerson Isicoff (
Thomas Small (
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“Business Bankruptcy Developments” plenary
session.
“Effective Pre-Bankruptcy
Negotiating and Packaging” will be moderated by James S.
Feltman of Mesirow Financial Consulting, LLC (Miami) and feature
panelists Mark I. Duedall of Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin
(
Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D’Armond, et al. (
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Macquarie Securities (USA) (Atlanta).
Attendees will also be treated
to a performance by the only all-ABI member rock-and-roll band, the
“Indubitable Equivalents!”
For more information about the
Twelfth Annual Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop, call ABI at (703) 739-0800
or visit
href='http://www.abiworld.org/SE07'>http://www.abiworld.org/SE07.
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