Alexandria, Va. –More than 400 practitioners will join a 12-judge faculty at ABI’s 23rd Annual Northeast Bankruptcy Conference on July 14-17, 2016, at the historic Omni Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, N.H. The conference provides up to 11.25/12 hours of CLE/CPE, including 1.25/1.5 hours of ethics, and will again offer a separate three-day consumer forum at a reduced registration rate. Co-chairs for the Northeast Bankruptcy Conference are John J. Monaghan of Holland & Knight LLP (Boston) and Elisa M. Sartori of Greenridge Financial Services (Boston). Bankruptcy Judge Bruce A. Harwood (D. N.H.; Manchester) is the judicial chair.
Sessions for the 23rd Annual Northeast Bankruptcy Conference include:
- Practicing in the Limelight: The Challenges Faced in Cases Involving High-Profile Debtors
- How to Attract Clients and Referrals in a Down Market: Advice from a Law Firm Marketing Expert
- “Sub Rosa Plans”: Their Impact in, and Provision of a Potential Alternate Exit Strategy from, Chapter 11
- Financial Advisory Panel: Curing the Cause and Not Just Treating the Symptoms — How to Fix the Business Issues and Not Just Adjust the Balance Sheet
- Small Commercial Chapter 11 Panel: A Decent Burial — Winding Up the Small Business Debtor
- Emerging Professionals Panel: Show Me the Money — Understanding, Structuring and Getting Approval for Debtor-in-Possession Financing
- Current Issues in Oil and Gas Bankruptcies
- Claims Litigation in Bankruptcy
- Cutting-Edge Chapter 11 Plan Issues
- International Aspects of U.S. Bankruptcy Cases: Is a U.S. Bankruptcy Court the Proverbial Roaring Deaf Lion in the International Forest?
- How to Attract Clients and Referrals in a Down Market: Advice from a Law Firm Marketing Expert
- The Ethics of Getting Hired
- Appealing Propositions: Everything You Need to Know About Bankruptcy Appeals
In conjunction with the Northeast Bankruptcy Conference, ABI’s 11th Annual Northeast Consumer Forum will be held July 14-16 and will focus on consumer bankruptcy educational programs designed for both experienced and new professionals. This three-day forum offers consumer insolvency practitioners an opportunity to earn approximately 9/10.5 hours of CLE/CPE credit. Shawn L. Doil of Perkins Thompson, P.A. (Portland, Maine) and Donald R. Lassman (Needham, Mass.) are the co-chairs of the Northeast Consumer Forum.
The Consumer Forum programs include:
- A Collision Between Two Worlds: Estate Planning vs. Bankruptcy
- Many Unhappy Returns: Another Hanging Paragraph Creates a Trap for Consumer Bankruptcy Lawyers
- The Ethics Trifecta: How to Avoid Sanctionable Lawyer Behavior, Crossing the Line in Pre-Petition Planning, and Dangerous Conflicts of Interest
- Keeping That Simple No-Asset Case a No-Asset Case: Recent Areas of Chapter 7 Trustee Activity
For more information about the speakers and sessions at the Northeast Consumer Forum, please visit http://www.abi.org/events/11th-annual-northeast-consumer-forum.
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ABI is the largest multi-disciplinary, nonpartisan 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, providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information. For additional information on ABI, visit www.abiworld.org. For additional conference information, visit http://www.abi.org/calendar-of-events.