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WINTER ISSUE
OF THE ABI LAW REVIEW
EXAMINES THE FUTURE OF LABOR FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF BANKRUPTCY
EXPERTS

January 8, 2008,
w:st='on'>Alexandria,
w:st='on'>Va.
— The American Bankruptcy
Institute (ABI) 2007 Winter
Law Review (Volume 15, No. 2), features 5 articles taking an
in-depth look at the future of organized labor from the view of leading
bankruptcy academics and practitioners. Beyond merely descriptive
pieces, these articles examine labor law, the Bankruptcy Code,
government policies and the present state of labor unions through the
prism of bankruptcy.

Articles included in this
edition of the Law Review include:

“Ignored Consequences
– The Conflicting Policies of Labor Law and Business
Reorganization and Its Impact on Organized Labor” by William T.

Bodoh of Frost and Beth A. Buchanan of Frost Brown Todd LLC
(
w:st='on'>Cincinnati
).

'Lost in Transformation: The
Disappearance of Labor Policies in Applying Section 1113 of the
Bankruptcy Code' by Babette A. Ceccotti of Cohen, Weiss &
Simon LLP (New
York
).

'Harsh Realities and Silver
Linings for Retirees' by Prof. Daniel Keating of the
Washington
w:st='on'>University
in
w:st='on'>St. Louis
.


size='3'>Chris
topher J. Marcus,
Michele J. Meises and Harvey Miller of Weil Gotshal &
Manges (New
York
) on 'The State of the Unions in
Reorganization and Restructuring Cases.'

'The Return of Government by
Injunction in Airline Bankruptcies' written by Thomas N. Ciantra
and Richard M. Seltzer of Cohen, Weiss & Simon LLP
(New
York
).

Additional articles included in

the Winter 2007 edition of the
w:st='on'>ABI
Law Review
include:

An article titled
“Prepayment Clauses in Bankruptcy” by Emil A.
Kleinhaus
and Scott K. Charles of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen
& Katz (New
York
).

The article “Impact of
Marrama on Case Conversions: Addressing the Unanswered
Questions,” by John Rao of the
w:st='on'>National

w:st='on'>Consumer

w:st='on'>Law

w:st='on'>Center
(
w:st='on'>Boston
).

“Interpreting Bankruptcy
Code Sections 502 and 506: Post- Petition Attorneys’ Fees in a
Post-Travelers World,” by former
w:st='on'>ABI
Resident Scholar Prof. Mark S.
Scarberry
of Pepperdine University School of Law (
w:st='on'>Malibu,
w:st='on'>Calif.
)

Also included are notes looking

at disparate approaches to valuation under §506

and its relationship to §1325, as well as the applicable commitment

period to a debtor’s commitment to a fixed plan
length.


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’s Law Review,
published in conjunction with St. Johns University School of Law in

w:st='on'>Jamaica
, N.Y., is among the
most respected scholarly publications in the bankruptcy community.
Distributed to all ABI
members as a benefit of membership, the
w:st='on'>ABI
Law Review has the largest
circulation of any bankruptcy law review. Past issues of the Law
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have focused on the new bankruptcy law, international
insolvency, single-asset cases, high-tech and e-commerce bankruptcies,
consumer bankruptcy, the revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial
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