Oregon

Labor & Employment/Financial Advisors & Investment Banking/Legislation Committees: This panel will address public pension law, including their financial magnitude, and will focus on a number of timely current issues ranging from constitutional matters to state authorization, § 903 and 904 concerns, and relevant legislation. The panelists will draw upon their recent experiences, particularly from municipal bankruptcy cases, to highlight key themes and provide relevant insights.

Ethics & Professional Compensation/Real Estate Committees: This panel will explore various ethical issues that often arise in a single asset real estate bankruptcy case from the perspectives of the debtor, secured creditor and bankruptcy judge — via an entertaining and interactive fictional case study.

Inaugural organizational meeting for this new ABI committee focusing on mediation and other ADR methods applied in the bankruptcy process, including conflict-resolution skills development, overcoming impasses, multiparty mediations, confidentiality and more. The committee will consider Model Rules for courts on the use of mediation, mediator qualifications and compensation.

Shoveling Through the Dirt of Real Estate Fraud

Past Presidents’ Debate:

Michael P.
Richman Hunton & Williams LLP; New York
Deborah D. Williamson
Cox Smith Matthews Incorporated; San Antonio

Resolved: Secured creditors should be required to fund the payment of all administrative claims and make a distribution to general unsecured creditors as a condition of cleansing substantially all of the debtors’ assets through a § 363 sale process.

Judicial Debate:

Hon. Kevin J. Carey
U.S. Bankruptcy Court (D. Del.); Wilmington
Hon. Frank J. Santoro
U.S. Bankruptcy Court (E.D. Va.); Norfolk