ABA Programs, Luncheons & Committee Meetings – 2018 NCBJ Conference

ABA Programs, Luncheons & Committee Meetings

The schedule of ABA Business Law, Bankruptcy Section programs luncheons and committee meetings is now available. Scroll down on this landing page. Afternoon program begin on Sunday, October 28th. Everyone registered for NCBJ is welcome to attend the ABA afternoon programs. There is a registration fee payable to ABA for CLE credit for their programs. The Luncheons are Monday and Tuesday, October 29 – 30th. All ABA functions are in the Marriott Rivercenter hotel.

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2018 Business Bankruptcy Committee Fall Meeting
October 28 - 30, 2018 Marriott Rivercenter, San Antonio, TX
Co-Located with the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Conference

Sunday, October 28, 2018

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 17-18
CLE Program: Pro Bono Attorneys Taking on Student Loan Dischargeability Issues – Identify the Issues and Strategies to Help Debtors In and Out of the Courtroom
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

This panel will discuss what pro bono attorneys should look for to determine whether a debtor is a candidate for a student loan dischargeability action, the legal standards for pursuing such an action, and the administrative and out of court options that may be available, including income based payment plans, application for total disability through existing federal programs, and similar programs.

Program Co-Chair and Moderator:
Judge Elizabeth S. Stong, United States Bankruptcy Court, Brooklyn, NY

Program Co-Chair and Materials Coordinator:
Grace E. Robson, Markowitz Ringel Trusty & Hartog, PA, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Program Speakers:
Judge Laurel Myerson Isicoff, United States Bankruptcy Court, Miami, FL
Dalie Jimenez, University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA
John D. Eaton, Shawde & Eaton P.L., Weston, FL
William R. Howell, Jr., Will Howell, Houston, TX

3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Location: Marriott Ballroom Salon H
Chairs & Vice Chairs Committee Meeting
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

3:45 – 5:15 p.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 17-18
CLE Program: Almost Everything You Wanted to Know About Accounting and Math Issues for Bankruptcy Lawyers
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

To properly advise clients, bankruptcy lawyers must have a working understanding of financial accounting, statistics and mathematics. Every day we must review financial reports, analyze avoidance actions, and build plans of reorganization. This program will provide you with insight for how to use key accounting and math concepts and tools to better understand your cases and advise clients and other stakeholders in a bankruptcy case.

Program Co-chair:
Jeffrey Sklarz, Green & Sklarz, LLC, New Haven CT

Program Co-chair, Moderator and Materials Coordinator:
Krista L. Kulp, Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP, New York, NY

Program Speakers:
Donald Barg, Barg & Henson, P.C., Fort Worth, TX
Honorable Julie Manning, District of Connecticut, Bankruptcy Court, Bridgeport, CT
Dana Kane, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, New York, NY
Lee Fletcher, Ankura, New York, NY

Program Materials Coordinator:
Hayley Harrison, Bast Amron, Miami, FL

Monday, October 29, 2018

7:30 – 8:45 a.m.
Location: Marriott Ballroom Salon L
Small Business Subcommittee Meeting
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

7:30 – 8:45 a.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 13-14
International Bankruptcy Subcommittee
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

7:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 8
E-Newsletter Subcommittee Meeting
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 15
Joint Meeting of Consumer Bankruptcy and Avoiding Powers Subcommittee
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

Substantive Topic:
Ponzi Scheme Updates

This panel will address and discuss notable Ponzi scheme cases and decisions in the last two years that pertain to business bankruptcy practice.

Meeting Co-Chairs:
Bruce Borrus, Esq., Fox Rothschild, LLP, Seattle, WA
Hon. Laurel M. Isicoff, United States Bankruptcy Court, Miami, FL

Meeting Moderator:
Lori E. Vaughan, Trenam Law, Tampa, FL

Meeting Speakers:
Steven Fender, CBR Law Group, LLP, Boca Raton, FL

9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Location: Marriott Ballroom Salon L
Electronic Discovery (ESI) in Bankruptcy Cases Subcommittee Meeting
Presented by: Bankruptcy Court Structure and Insolvency Process

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 8
Administrative & Courts Subcommittee Meeting
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

9:30 – 10:45 a.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 13-14
Joint Meeting of Insurance Subcommittee and Mass Torts & Environmental Claims Subcommittee
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

Substantive Topic:
Third Party Releases and Exculpations

Meeting Co-Chairs:
Robert B. Millner, Dentons US LLP, Chicago, IL
Margaret M. Anderson, Fox Swibel Levin & Carroll, Chicago, IL

Meeting Moderator:
Scott Rose, Jackson Walker, San Antonio, TX

Meeting Speakers:
Jan M. Hayden, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
Ehud Barak, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY
Wendy Simkulak, Duane Morris LLP, Philadelphia, PA

10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Location: Marriott Ballroom L
Asset Forfeiture and Bankruptcy Subcommittee Meeting
Presented by: Bankruptcy Court Structure and Insolvency Process

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 8
Trustee and Examiners Subcommittee Meeting
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 13-14
Insurance Subcommittee Meeting
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

1:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Location: Marriott Ballroom Salon F
Secured Creditors Lunch & CLE Program: Practical Effects of the Supreme Court’s Decision Relating to Secured Creditors
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee
Ticketed Event, Tickets $90, Available at ABA Registration Desk

The expert panel will discuss the everyday application of the Supreme Court’s newest decisions for secured creditors, including Merit Management (Section 546(e) safe harbor), U.S. Bank v. Village of Lakeridge (insider status), and the longer-term effects of cases like Jevic and Stern v. Marshall.

Program Co-Chairs:
Sharon Z. Weiss, Bryan Cave LLP, Santa Monica, CA
Corali Lopez-Castro, Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton, Miami, FL

Program Moderator and Materials Coordinator:
Joseph M. Esmont, BakerHostetler, Cleveland, OH

Program Speakers:
Susan M. Freeman, Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP, Phoenix, AZ
Craig T. Goldblatt, WilmerHale, Washington, DC
Barbara Houser, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas, TX

4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Location: Marriott Ballroom Salon F
CLE Program: Municipal – and State – Insolvencies After Puerto Rico
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

Underfunded pension plans, unfunded retiree medical plans and changes in federal tax, fiscal and health care policies are driving states, cities, municipal hospitals and other instrumentalities towards insolvency. At the same time the law of state & local insolvency is mutating rapidly in Puerto Rico to the detriment of creditors, including secured bondholders. If the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico can restructure, can Illinois be far behind? Are even special revenue bonds safe? Are pension claims effectively senior debt? This panel will discuss evolving precedents under the Constitution and bankruptcy law as they effect distressed governments, employees, retirees and the municipal bond market.

Program Co-Chairs and Moderators:
Honorable Christopher Klein, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge (Retired), Sacramento, CA
Thomas Moer, Mayer, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York, NY

Program Speakers:
Douglas Baird, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL
Debra Dandeneau, Baker & Mackenzie LLP, New York, NY
Claude Montgomery, Dentons, New York, NY
William P. Smith, McDermott Will & Emery, Chicago, IL

Program Materials Coordinator:
Nicole Sweeney, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, New York, NY

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

7:30 – 8:45 a.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 8
Rules & Claims Trading Joint Subcommittee Meeting
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

7:30 – 8:45 a.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 12
Healthcare and Nonprofits in Bankruptcy Subcommittee Meeting
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

8:45 – 9:45 a.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 8
Publications Subcommittee Meeting
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 12
Tax Subcommittee Meeting
Presented by: Bankruptcy Court Structure and Insolvency Process

9:45 – 10:45 a.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 8
IP and Technology Subcommittee Meeting
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 12
Avoidance Subcommittee Meeting
Presented by: Business Court Structure and Insolvency Process

10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 8
Model Code Project Business Bankruptcy Subcommittee Meeting
Presented by: Business Court Structure and Insolvency Process

11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 8
Model Code Project Consumer Bankruptcy Subcommittee Meeting
Presented by: Business Court Structure and Insolvency Process

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 12
Bankruptcy Committees and Professional Ethics Joint Subcommittee Meeting
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

1:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Location: Marriott Ballroom Salon I
Chapter 11 Lunch & Heidt Award Presentation with CLE Program: The Swamp Hasn’t Been Cleaned Up
Ticketed Event, Tickets $90, Available at ABA Registration Desk

This program will cover recent developments in sales and dispositions of estate assets, including credit bidding, sales “free and clear” of leases and regulatory restrictions and other interests in property, the use of Chapter 11 for “friendly foreclosures” sales to insiders and affiliates and sales of claims and causes of action – in lieu of settlements and 9010 motions.

Program Co-Chair and Moderator:
Gary E. Klausner, Levene, Neale, Bender, Yoo & Brill LLP, Los Angeles, CA

Program Co-Chair and Materials Coordinator:
Clay B. Roberts, White and Case, LLP, Miami, FL

Program Speakers:
Patricia Ann Redmond, Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A., Miami, FL
G. Eric Brunstad, Dechert LLP, Hartford, CT
Donald R. Kirk, Carlton Fields, Tampa, FL

3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 12
Programs Subcommittee Meeting
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Marriott Ballroom Salon J + K
CLE Program: Current Developments in Bankruptcy
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

A panel of experienced business bankruptcy lawyers from around the country will update attendees on recent developments in areas of particular meaning to practitioners in the insolvency community. This panel has been known to generate lively debate and active audience participation in discussing cutting edge bankruptcy topics.

Program Chair and Moderator:
Martin J. Bienenstock, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY

Program Speakers:
Monique D. Hayes, Goldstein & McClintock LLP, Miami, FL
Robert B. Millner, Dentons, Chicago, IL
Michael R. Enright, Robinson & Cole LLP, Hartford, CT

Program Materials Coordinator:
Michael R. Enright, Robinson & Cole LLP, Hartford, CT

4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 8
Individual Chapter 11 Subcommittee Meeting
Presented by: Business Bankruptcy Committee

5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Marriott Conference Room 12
Bankruptcy Court Structure and Insolvency Process Committee Meeting
Presented by: Business Court Structure and Insolvency Process

January 24, 2018