Contact: John Hartgen
703-739-0800
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REAL ESTATE, ETHICS
AND HOT TOPICS IN CONSUMER AND BUSINESS BANKRUPTCY AMONG TOPICS TO BE
DISCUSSED AT ABI’s SOUTHEAST BANKRUPTCY WORKSHOP
May 14, 2009,
Alexandria, Va. — Eight bankruptcy
judges and more than 300 attendees will gather to discuss the latest
bankruptcy topics at ABI’s Fourteenth Annual Southeast Bankruptcy
Workshop. The workshop, held from July 29-August 1 at the Westin Hilton
Head Island Resort & Spa on Hilton Head Island, S.C., brings
together the region’s top insolvency professionals for four days
of intense learning and networking. Attendees also have the opportunity
to earn 9.0 hours of CLE credits, including 2.5 hours of
ethics.
Program co-chairs for the
Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop include
size='3'>C.R. “Chip” Bowles, Jr.
of Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC (Louisville, Ky.) and
David B. Wheeler
size='3'>of Moore & Van Allen (Charleston, S.C.)
size='3'>. The judicial chair for the workshop is
size='3'>Bankruptcy Judge Mary
Grace Diehl (N.D. Ga.;
Atlanta).
Highlighting the workshop will be a
plenary session titled “The Fall of Boris Badenough: Ethical
Issues for Lawyers in Representing ‘Unusual’ Clients.”
The session involves a cast of experts conducting a mock trial to
present ethical situations faced when representing failed financial
entities and their principals, along with a separate panel to examine
the key issues in a case. The cast of the mock trial
includes:
- “Announcer:”
C.R. “Chip” Bowles,
Jr. of Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC
(Louisville, Ky.). - “Boris
Badenough:” Robin E.
Phelan of Haynes and
Boone, LLP (Dallas). - “Big Jim Hunt
Silver:” Carl H. Young,
III of Bridge Associates LLC (New
York). - “Boris’s
Attorney:” Diane P.
Furr of Poyner & Spruill LLP (Charlotte,
N.C.). - Big Jim’s
Attorney:” J. Ted
Donovan of Finkel Goldstein Rosenbloom &
Nash, LLP (New York).
Panelists providing analysis for
the mock trial include Acting U.S. Trustee
face='Calibri' size='3'>Cynthia P. Burnette
size='3'>(Tampa, Fla.), James S.
Feltman of Mesirow Financial Consulting, LLC
(Miami) and Bankruptcy Judge J.
Rich Leonard (E.D.N.C.;
Raleigh).
Concurrent workshops at the conference
include:
Patricia A.
Redmond of Stearns, Weaver, Miller, Weissler,
Alhadeff & Sitterson, PA (Miami) moderating the “Dead Dirt:
Part 1” session with panelists
size='3'>Paul J. Battista of Genovese Joblove
& Battista, PA (Miami),
size='3'>William G. Londrey of Tranzon LLC
(Richmond, Va.), Bankruptcy Judge
size='3'>C. Ray Mullins (N.D. Ga.; Atlanta)
and James Lee Paul
of Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Martin
(Atlanta) examining issues arising from the recent wave of business real
estate bankruptcies.
The “Jumping the Queue:
Administrative, Priority and Reclamation Claims in Chapter 11
Cases” session, moderated by
size='3'>Lawrence R. Ahern, III of Burr &
Forman LLP (Nashville, Tenn.), will feature panelists
face='Calibri' size='3'>Paula S. Beran of
Tavenner & Beran, PLC (Richmond),
size='3'>Daniel F. Dooley of MorrisAnderson
& Associates, Ltd. (Chicago) and Bankruptcy Judge
face='Calibri' size='3'>Douglas O. Tice, Jr.
size='3'>(E.D. Va.; Richmond).
ABI Deputy Executive
Director Felicia S.
Turner will moderate the “Hot Topics in
Chapter 13 Cases” session with panelists Chapter 13 Trustee
O. Byron Meredith,
face='Calibri' size='3'>III (Savannah,
Ga.), Richard H.
Thomson of Clark & Washington, PC
(Atlanta) and Bankruptcy Judge
size='3'>Michael G. Williamson (M.D. Fla.;
Tampa).
“Swimming in Shark-infested
Waters,” moderated by
size='3'>Robert E. Weld of Tatum LLC (Vero
Beach, Fla.), will feature panelists
size='3'>Richard H. Engman of Jones Day (New
York) and John C.
“Kit” Weitnauer of Alston &
Bird LLP (Atlanta).
The “Dead Dirt: Part
2” session will review hot real estate issues that impact
closely-held business and guarantors in smaller chapter 11 and chapter
13 business cases. Moderator
size='3'>Robert P. Reynolds of Reynolds,
Reynolds & Duncan, LLC (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) will be joined by
Bankruptcy Judge Robert
Mark (S.D. Fla.; Miami),
face='Calibri' size='3'>Michael Thompson of
Thompson, O’Brien, Kemp & Nasuti, PC (Norcross, Ga.)
and Robert L. Shields,
III of Tanner & Guin, LLC (Birmingham,
Ala.) on the panel.
“Hot Consumer Topics in
Chapter 7,” moderated by U.S. Trustee
face='Calibri' size='3'>Donald F. Walton
size='3'>(Region 21; Atlanta), features panelists
face='Calibri' size='3'>Michael J. Cox of
Michael J. Cox Attorney at Law, LLC (Columbia, S.C.),
face='Calibri' size='3'>Neil C. Gordon of
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP (Atlanta) and Bankruptcy Judge
face='Calibri' size='3'>Laurel Myerson Isicoff
size='3'>(S.D. Fla.; Miami).
Moderator
face='Calibri' size='3'>Terri L. Gardner of
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP (Raleigh, N.C.) will be
joined by panelists Eric W.
Anderson of Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs
LLP (Atlanta), Thomas W.
Anderson (Pilot Mountain, N.C.),
Rudy J. Cerone
size='3'>of McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC (New Orleans), Bankruptcy
Judge Mary Grace
Diehl (N.D. Ga.; Atlanta) and
face='Calibri' size='3'>Robert M. Hirsh of
Arent Fox LLP (New York) for the “Lenders Under Fire: Strategies
for and Defenses to Extracting Money from Lenders in Consumer and
Business Cases” session.
The “Dead Dealers: Problems
and Challenges with Auto-dealer Insolvencies” session will be
moderated by Jeffrey W.
Kelley of Troutman Sanders LLP (Atlanta) and
include panelists Keith
Northern of NachmanHaysBrownstein, Inc.
(Narberth, Pa.), Charles M.
Tatelbaum of Adorno & Yoss LLP (Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla.) and Bankruptcy Judge
size='3'>James D. Walker, Jr. (M.D. Ga.;
Macon).
The “Consumer Law
Update” and “Business Law Update” sessions will
feature discussions between Retired Bankruptcy Judge
face='Calibri' size='3'>William H. Brown
size='3'>(Carbondale, Colo.) and Prof.
size='3'>Jeffrey W. Morris of the University
of Dayton School of Law and Counsel, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur
(Dayton, Ohio) on critical developments that have taken place over the
past year in consumer and business bankruptcy cases.
For more information about the
Fourteenth Annual Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop, call ABI at (703)
739-0800 or visit
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size='3'>http://www.abiworld.org/SE09
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