Throughout 2017 and continuing into 2018, the Young and New Members Committee (the “Y&NM Committee”) leadership produced a variety of helpful materials and programs, and continued to encourage new and young ABI members to become more active in the organization. Just some of those highlights are discussed below.
Conference Programs
At ABI’s Annual Spring Meeting, the Y&NM Committee partnered with the Bankruptcy Litigation Committee to present Stern Revisited: In re Millennium Labs and Beyond. We would like to thank our excellent moderator, Patrick Birney, and our superb panelists, Gianfranco Finizio, J. Leland Murphree, Shane G. Ramsey and Nicole Stefanelli, for making this event a rousing success, with a packed room and engaged attendees.
At this year’s Winter Leadership Conference in December, the Y&NM Committee is partnering with the International Committee and seeking to highlight ABI “40 Under 40” recipients who have international expertise. Our topic and speakers are pending approval by ABI, but this presentation will be one to look forward to.
Webinar
On April 3, 2017, the Y&NM Committee held a webinar on the impact of the ASARCO v. Baker Botts decision in professional fee litigation, covering a variety of post-ASARCO bankruptcy rulings, including open issues, trends and practice points. Our presenters, Kyle Hirsch, Shanti Katona and Abigail Willie, did an excellent job putting this presentation together on an issue important to us all. This webinar is available, free of charge, to ABI members in the eLearning Center.
Newsletters
In 2017, the Y&NM Committee published newsletters in July, August and September featuring eight articles, including a primer on Puerto Rico from David Doyle, our current Vice Education Director. Our Newsletter Editor for this year is Tara Schellhorn, who wrote articles for the newsletter on Rule 60(d)(3) in the bankruptcy context (November 2016) and for the ABI Journal on the appellate standard of review for determining nonstatutory insiders (May 2018). Tara will be assisted by Laura Hughes as Vice Newsletter Editor. Tara has a great lineup of articles coming through the pipeline for 2018, so stay tuned! If you have any interest in writing for the newsletter, please reach out to Tara or Laura.
Board Adjustments
In transitioning to the 2018 leadership committee, we have added two new leadership roles: a Vice Education Director and a Vice Newsletter Editor. We believe that the addition of these two new roles will help serve the Y&NM Committee’s role by (1) helping ease new leaders into the more challenging Newsletter Editor and Education Director roles, and (2) widening the pipeline of new leaders to ensure that ABI has sufficient volunteer leaders to support its continuing growth.
Leadership
- Dan White, Askew & Mazel, LLC, dwhite@askewmazelfirm.com
- Evan Miller, Bayard, P.A., emiller@bayardlaw.com
- Education Director: Brendan Gage, Paul Hastings, LLP, brendangage@paulhastings.com
- Vice Education Director: David Doyle, Shaw Fishman Glantz & Towbin LLC, ddoyle@shawfishman.com
- Newsletter Editor: Tara Schellhorn, Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, LLP, tschellhorn@riker.com
- Vice Newsletter Editor: Laura Hughes, lmuberti@gmail.com
- Membership Relations Director: Matthew Bouslog, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, mbouslog@gibsondunn.com
- Communications Manager: Christina Sanfelippo, Shaw Fishman Glantz & Towbin LLC, csanfelippo@shawfishman.com
- Special Projects Leader: Laura Coordes, Arizona State University, laura.napoli@asu.edu