Alexandria, Va. –More than 400 practitioners will join a 16-judge faculty at ABI’s 24th Annual Northeast Bankruptcy Conference on July 20-23, 2017, at the Newport Marriott in Newport, R.I. The conference provides up to 10.25/12 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 24th Annual Northeast Bankruptcy Conference include:
- Detecting Lies: Strategies for Exposing a Deceitful Witness
- Sealing the Deal: Negotiating, Documenting and Consummating Settlements in Bankruptcy
- Loans-to-Own: How Do You Do It? Should You Do It?
- Litigation: Expert Cross-Examination Strategy
- The Critical Role of Financial Advisors in Unwinding Ponzi Schemes
- The Closely Held Business in Financial Trouble: Unraveling Conflicts Within the “Family”
- ESI and Ethics: How to Avoid Sanctions — and Worse
- Harborside Chat
- What’s Your Favorite? Supreme Court Decisions that Will Impact (and Already Have Impacted) Bankruptcy Practice
In conjunction with the Northeast Bankruptcy Conference, ABI’s 12th Annual Northeast Consumer Forum will be held July 20-22 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 7.5/9 hours of CLE/CPE credit, including 2.5/3 hours of ethics. 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:
- Reaffirmation and Surrender: A Debtor’s Dilemma Demystified
- Stranger Things in Chapter 13
- A Perfect Storm: The Ethical Dilemma of Just Asking to Be Paid
- Disincorporation: Pre-Petition Planning Versus a Harbinger for Disaster
For more information about the speakers and sessions at the Northeast Consumer Forum, please visit http://www.abi.org/events/northeast-bankruptcy-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.