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Senator Biden to Keynote Delaware Views from the Bankruptcy Bench and Bar

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Contact:
w:st='on'>John Hartgen

            
Phone: (703) 739-0800

            
Email:
href='mailto:jhartgen@abiworld.org'>jhartgen@abiworld.org

 

SENATOR BIDEN
TO KEYNOTE “
w:st='on'>DELAWARE VIEWS FROM THE BANKRUPTCY
BENCH AND BAR”

April 4, 2006,
Alexandria,
w:st='on'>Va. — More
than 400 bankruptcy professionals are expected to attend the American
Bankruptcy Institute’s (ABI) newest program 'Delaware Views from
the Bankruptcy Bench and Bar' conference, scheduled for June 9, 2006, at
the Hotel du Pont in
w:st='on'>Wilmington,
w:st='on'>Del. The one-day conference, which is
being jointly sponsored by ABI and the Delaware State Bar Association,
will feature Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) as the luncheon keynote speaker.
Four hours of CLE credit will be available to attendees.

Six bankruptcy judges from
Delaware are part of the faculty, including the four newest members of
the court, as well as U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thomas L. Ambro
(3rd Circuit).

Topics for the conference
sessions include:

“The New Code’s
Impact on Chapter 11,” moderated by Laura Davis Jones of
Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young, Jones & Weintraub PC (Wilmington,
Del.), will feature a panel comprised of Judges Kevin J. Carey
(Wilmington, Del.) and Kevin Gross (Wilmington, Del.) as well as Marcia
L. Goldstein of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (New York), Scott L.
Hazan of Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen, PC (New York) and
James H.M. Sprayregen of Kirkland & Ellis LLP (Chicago).

James L. Patton, Jr. of Young,
Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, LLP (Wilmington, Del.) will moderate the
“Global Crossings: Current Developments in Cross-Border
Cases” discussion. Panelists include Judges Mary F. Walrath
(Wilmington, Del.) and Christopher S. Sontchi (Wilmington, Del.) as well
as John (Jack) Wm. Butler, Jr. of
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (Chicago), Luc A. Despins
of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP (
w:st='on'>New York) and
Lawrence J. Nyhan of Sidley Austin LLP (Chicago).

The “Sibling Rivalries:
Dealing with Multiple Layers of Secured Debt” panel features
moderator Norman L. Pernick of Saul Ewing LLP (Wilmington, Del.) and
panelists Judges Brendan L. Shannon (Wilmington, Del.) and Peter J.
Walsh (Wilmington, Del.), along with Donald S. Bernstein of Davis, Polk
& Wardwell (New York), Fred S. Hodara of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer
& Feld LLP (New York) and Harold S. Novikoff of Wachtell, Lipton,
Rosen & Katz (New York).

“Important New Third
Circuit and Delaware Opinions” will be moderated by William H.
Sudell, Jr. of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell (Wilmington, Del.)
and features panelists Judge Thomas L. Ambro, Third Circuit Court of
Appeals (Philadelphia), Marc Abrams of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
(New York), G. Eric Brunstad, Jr. of Bingham McCutchen LLP (Hartford,
Conn.), Paul E. Harner of Jones Day (Chicago) and Alan W. Kornberg of
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (New York).

Program chairs are Mark Collins
of Richards, Layton
w:st='on'>& Finger,
PA (
w:st='on'>Wilmington,
w:st='on'>Del.)  and Rebecca Booth of
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (
w:st='on'>Philadelphia). The event concludes with
a networking reception.

Sponsor firms
include:

  • Ashby
    w:st='on'>&     Geddes,
    PA
  • The Bayard Firm
  • Bifferato, Gentilotti,
    w:st='on'>Biden     &
    Balick,
    w:st='on'>PA
  • Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP
  • Klett Rooney Lieber Schorling, PC
  • Landis Rath & Cobb LLP
  • Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams LLP
  • Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, LLP
  • Pachulski Stang Ziehl Young Jones & Weintraub PC
  • Pepper
    w:st='on'>Hamilton     LLP
  • Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP
  • Richards, Layton
    &
    w:st='on'>Finger    ,
    w:st='on'>PA
  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP
  • Traxi LLC
  • Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP

For more information about the
“Delaware Views from the Bankruptcy Bench and Bar”
conference, call ABI at (703) 739-0800 or visit
title='/DE06'
href='/DE06'>http://www.abiworld.org/DE06.

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