Hon. Frank Bailey U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of MA
Boston, MA
Frank J. Bailey was appointed on January 30, 2009 and he
served as Chief Judge from December 2010 until December
2015. His chambers are in Boston and he is assigned to the
Eastern Division. He was born in Kingston, New York, received
his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, School
of Foreign Service (BSFS) in 1977 and his JD from Suffolk
University School of Law (Boston) in 1980. He also serves on the
First Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. Judge Bailey taught
legal writing and research at Boston University School of
Law from 1981 to 1993. In addition, he currently teaches the
course in Business Bankruptcy at Suffolk University School of Law.
Judge Bailey served as judicial law clerk to the Honorable
Herbert P. Wilkins of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
in 1980-81. He was an associate at the Boston office of Sullivan
& Worcester LLP where he practiced in the litigation and
corporate restructuring departments. He spent the twenty-two
years as a partner at the firm of Sherin and Lodgen LLP where
he served as the Chairman of the Litigation Department and as
a member of the firm’s management committee. His practice
focused on complex business litigation and business
bankruptcy. He often represented clients in the medical device,
pharmaceutical and high technology businesses.
Judge Bailey was appointed by the First Circuit to oversee the
financial restructuring of the City of Central Falls, Rhode Island,
a rare Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy case. The City of
Central Falls filed a contested plan of readjustment that was
confirmed in a little more than a year from filing.
Judge Bailey serves on the Board of Governors of the National
Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and was the chair of the
National Conference of Federal Trial Judges of the American
Bar Association ion 2016-17. In addition, he has served on the
Standing Committee on Diversity in the American Judiciary of
the Judicial Division of the American Bar Association.
Speaker
(Almost) Everything You
Wanted to Know About
Planning and
Conducting an
Evidentiary Hearing in
Bankruptcy Court
Wednesday, Oct 30
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Location: Capitol
Leslie Berkoff Morritt Hock & Hamroff LLP
New York, NY
Leslie A. Berkoff is a Partner with the firm where she serves as Co-
Chair of the firm's Litigation and Bankruptcy Practice Group, as
well as Co-Chair of the firm's Alternative Dispute Resolution Group.
Ms. Berkoff concentrates her practice in the area of bankruptcy
and restructuring litigation and corporate workouts both
nationally and locally. Ms. Berkoff is a contributing editor for the
ABA publication Business Law Today. In addition, Ms. Berkoff
serves on the Board of Editors of Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law.
Prior to joining Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP, Ms. Berkoff served as a
law clerk to the Honorable Jerome Feller, United States
Bankruptcy Judge in the Eastern District of New York, from 1991 to
1993 and to the Honorable Allyne R. Ross, Federal Magistrate
Judge in the Eastern District of New York, from 1990 to 1991.
Ms. Berkoff speaks and publishes extensively and is a recognized
leader in her field.
Program Chair
(Almost) Everything You
Wanted to Know About
Planning and
Conducting an
Evidentiary Hearing in
Bankruptcy Court
Wednesday, Oct 30
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Location: Capitol
Martin Bienenstock Proskauer
New York, NY
Martin Bienenstock is chair of the Firm's Business Solutions,
Governance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group. Martin provides
clients with multidisciplinary solutions that draw on his combined
experience in restructuring, corporate governance,
reorganization, litigation, Dodd-Frank, and Sarbanes-Oxley.
Martin’s restructuring practice focuses on restructuring troubled
companies to benefit their investors or creditors. Martin’s
governance practice is targeted at keeping healthy companies
healthy and growing, and saving distressed companies, while
protecting directors and officers with cutting edge best practices.
Martin is repeatedly retained to solve momentous problems.
General Motors retained him to formulate the section 363 strategy
that he presented to the U.S. Auto Task Force, which deployed it
to save General Motors and Chrysler. He represented Enron in its
chapter 11 case that has now paid multiple creditors in full.
Recently, Martin developed the Colombian-U.S.-Canadian
reorganization plan for Pacific Exploration, supported by its bank
creditors and bond creditors. Martin routinely provides legal and
strategic advice to directors, businesses, investors and creditors,
advising on complex restructurings, acquisitions, trials and
appeals. Currently, Martin represents the statutory creditors’
committee representing unsecured claimholders in the Caesars
chapter 11 case. He handled the Owens Corning appeal,
reversing substantive consolidation to increase the value of his
bank clients' claims against Owens Corning from $600 million to
more than $2.2 billion. He charted the takeover of troubled
Finova for a joint venture between Berkshire Hathaway and
Leucadia National Corp and achieved the successful
reorganizations of companies such as Enron and Republic
Engineered Products over multiple objections. Martin developed
successful reorganizations for Capmark and AMBAC. He also
prepared the initial draft of what became Ireland’s
reorganization statute. Martin is currently representing, among
other entities, the Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico
and the statutory creditors' committee of SIGA Technologies.
For the last nine years, The National Law Journal listed Martin as
one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America." He has been
listed at the top of his field by other leading legal publications
and organizations, including Turnarounds & Workouts, The
International Who's Who of Business Lawyers and Euromoney
Legal Media Group's "The Best of the Best."
Program
Chair/Moderator
Current Developments
Friday, Nov 1
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Archives
Andrew Bloch Cross, Pennamped, Woolsey, & Glazier
Carmel, IN
Andrew R. Bloch is a Certified Family Law Specialist (Family Law
Certification Board), Registered Family Law Mediator, Trained
Family Law Arbitrator, Trained Guardian Ad Litem, and Trained in
Collaborative Family Law (CIACP). He received his B.S.B.A. in
Information Systems from Xavier University and his J.D. from Robert McKinney School of Law, where he was also awarded the
Norman Lefstein Award of Excellence. Since graduating from law
school, Drew has been named a "Super Lawyer" in 2019 as well as
a “Rising Star” in the area of Family Law in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013,
2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, as published in Indianapolis
Monthly. He is a member of the: Hamilton County Bar Association
(Family Law Local Rules Committee); Indianapolis Bar Association
(Family Law Executive Committee); Indiana State Bar Association
(Family Law Executive Committee); and the American Bar
Association (Chair of the Bankruptcy Committee- Family Law
Section). He previously served as a member of the Muncie Bar
Association (Executive Committee) and was a member of the
Ratliff-Cox Inns of Court.
Drew also serves on the Board of the Indiana Continuing Legal
Education Forum (ICLEF). Drew is a sought-after presenter for a
number of bar associations and a featured
speaker on a variety Family Law topics across the state of
Indiana. As a Partner at Cross, Pennamped, Woolsey & Glazier,
P.C., he devotes 100% of his practice to family law. Before joining
Cross, Pennamped, Woolsey & Glazier, P.C.
Drew served as a Commissioner in the Marion Circuit Court –
Paternity Division, hearing custody, visitation, and child support
cases. In addition to his service on the Board of ICLEF, Drew serves
as the Indianapolis Alumni Chapter President for Xavier University
and is a member of the Lew Hirt Society. He also is Board Member
at the Indianapolis Academy of Excellence, where he serves on
the Governance Committee.
Speaker
When Worlds Collide:
How to Represent the Pro
Bono Client When
Bankruptcy is Only Part of
the Solution
Wednesday, Oct 30
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM
Location: Archives
Ogonna Brown Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie
Las Vegas, NV
Ogonna Brown is a partner in the firm's Bankruptcy and
Litigation practice group, focusing her practice on creditors’
rights, secured party representation, trustee and receivership
matters and commercial litigation. Since 2002, after she
completed her clerkship for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,
Ogonna has been involved as counsel in complex business
and bankruptcy disputes, and she often appears in both state
and bankruptcy court for the same case when one of the
party’s seeks bankruptcy relief, resulting in efficiency for her
clients. Ogonna’s bankruptcy practice includes motions to
terminate the automatic stay under 11 U.S.C. § 362,
defending claim objections, oppositions to plans of
reorganization, competing plans, trustee representation in
Chapter 11 matters, motions to protect her clients’ cash
collateral, and objecting to the dischargeability of creditor’s
debts under 11 U.S.C. § 523 and various other adversary
matters.
Ogonna also enjoys community outreach through her pro
bono efforts, and likewise serves on the Bankruptcy local rules
committee, and recently served on the Merit Screening
Committee for Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Nevada in
2019.
Speaker
Current Developments
Friday, Nov 1
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Archives
Hon. Kevin J. Carey United States Bankruptcy Court
Wilmington, DE
Judge Carey was first appointed to the Bankruptcy Court for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 2001, and, since 2005, has
served on the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (as
chief judge from 2008-2011). Judge Carey is on the Executive
Committee of the Board of the American Bankruptcy Institute
and serves as Vice President of Membership. He is a past Global
Chairman of the Turnaround Management Association and is an
honorary member of the Turnaround, Restructuring and
Distressed Investing Hall of Fame. Judge Carey is a Fellow of the
American College of Bankruptcy. He is a member of the
National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and also serves as
an associate editor for the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. He
is the Third Circuit representative on the Administrative Office’s
Bankruptcy Judges Advisory Group and a member of the Third
Circuit Judicial Council’s Facilities and Security Committee. He is
a contributing author to Collier on Bankruptcy and Collier Forms
Manual. Judge Carey is also a part-time adjunct professor in the
LL.M. in Bankruptcy program at St. John’s University School of
Law in New York City, New York and at Temple University’s
Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He began
his legal career in 1979 as law clerk to Bankruptcy Judge Thomas
M. Twardowski, and then served as Clerk of Court of the
Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Judge
Carey received his J.D. in 1979 from the Villanova University
School of Law and his B.A. in 1976 from The Pennsylvania State
University.
Speaker
Shopping for Debt: Buyer
Beware of Good Deals
Friday, Nov 1
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Archives
Sidney Cherubin Brooklyn Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project
Brooklyn, NY
Sidney Cherubin, Esq., is the Director of Legal Services of the
Brooklyn Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project. He is also
an Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn Law School where he teaches
the NY Civil Consumer Law Clinic. He was an Attorney, Brooklyn
Site Director and Acting Legal Director while employed at The
Family Center from August 2002 until August 2007 where he
gained a great deal of experience representing families
affected by a terminal illness with regard to all aspects of
planning for the future well-being of the children in the families.
These services include drafting guardianship and standby
guardianship papers and representing parents and caregivers
in court; executing wills, powers of attorney, health care proxies,
living wills, uncontested divorces and Article 17A Guardianships.
As the Director of Legal Services of the VLP, Sidney supervises
the Family Law, Bankruptcy, Guardianship, Matrimonial,
Foreclosure and Consumer Debt practice. Sidney oversees and
supervises the Kings County Civil Court CLARO and Volunteer
Lawyers for the Day Projects. He is an active member of the
Civil Law Advice and Referral Office (CLARO) Council, a co-
chair of Brooklyn Bar Association Pro Bono Committee and
Special Events Committee and Brooklyn Bar Association
Judiciary Committee, member of the New York City Bar
Association Civil Court Committee.
Speaker
When Worlds Collide:
How to Represent the Pro
Bono Client When
Bankruptcy is Only Part of
the Solution
Wednesday, Oct 30
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM
Location: Archives
Michael R. Enright Robinson & Cole
Hartford, CT
Mike Enright co-chairs Robinson & Cole LLP’s Bankruptcy and
Creditors’ Rights Team. For over 35 years, he has represented
debtors, committees, creditors, and other interested parties in
the business bankruptcy and workout process and in
bankruptcy litigation. In the insolvency area, his work also
includes preference, fraudulent transfer, and other bankruptcy
litigation analysis and defense. Mr. Enright has extensive
experience guiding clients through bankruptcy filings, including
reorganization and liquidation.
Mr. Enright recently represented a global fuel oil supplier in its
Chapter 11 case, including negotiation and confirmation of its
plans, which included providing for a substantial distribution to
creditors. Mr. Enright also routinely represents secured creditors,
creditors’ committees, and other creditors. He recently assisted
a major global corporation in safeguarding its financial interests
following a customer’s Chapter 11 filing.
Mr. Enright participates as a member of the American Bar
Association's (ABA) Business Bankruptcy Committee, speaking
annually on current developments in bankruptcy for the Task
Force on Current Developments. He writes frequently on
bankruptcy related topics, including for practice guides and
legal treatises.
Mr. Enright has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America© in
the areas of Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law /
Insolvency and Reorganization Law since 2006 and Litigation -
Bankruptcy since 2011. He has been selected to the
Connecticut Super Lawyers list since 2006.
A resident of Connecticut since 1992, Mike previously practiced
for over ten years in Chicago, his hometown. He is licensed to
practice law in Connecticut, New York and Illinois. His J.D. is
from Loyola in Chicago (1981), and his B.A. degree is from the
University of Illinois (1978).
Last but not least, he is a middle-of-the-pack distance runner,
and will run (and hopefully complete, but not win) the NYC
Marathon on November 3, which is his 63rd birthday.
Speaker/Program
Materials Coordinator
Current Developments
Friday, Oct 31
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Archives
Leah Fiorenza McNeill Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Atlanta, GA
Leah Fiorenza McNeill is an associate in the firm’s Restructuring
& Insolvency Practice Group. Her restructuring and bankruptcy
experience includes representation of distressed companies,
Chapter 11 liquidating trustees, creditors’ committees, DIP
Lenders, stalking horse bidders, secured and unsecured
creditors. Leah's experience includes litigation and appeals in
bankruptcy and insolvency matters in federal and state courts
across the East Coast, with particular experience in Delaware,
Florida, Georgia, and Texas. She has participated in large, multi-
party mediations and has led commercial arbitration
proceedings. On the transactional side of her Restructuring
practice, she has substantial experience in complex out-of-
court workouts and liquidations.
Leah also represents lenders, financial institutions, and
businesses in complex finance disputes, including loan defaults,
real estate transactions, and breach of contract claims. She is
experienced in all stages of litigation, including motions
practice, mediation, discovery, trial preparation, appellate
briefing, and oral argument.
Leah has particular expertise in the Food and Beverage
industry, having been involved in several transactions and
litigation matters for restaurants, food distributors, and other
industry players. Leah also has a wealth of experience in the
healthcare industry, and in particular dealing with distressed
regional hospitals, rural hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities.
She is also a contributing editor to Norton’s Bankruptcy Law and
Practice, the leading treatise in her field.
Program Materials
Coordinator
Shopping for Debt: Buyer
Beware of Good Deals
Friday, Nov 1
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Archives
Elliot Ganz Loan Syndications & Trading Association
New York, NY
Elliot Ganz is the General Counsel and Chief of Staff of the
LSTA. In that capacity he manages all aspects of the LSTA’s
legal affairs, manages its staff, coordinates its strategic
initiatives, and co-heads its Public Policy Group. Mr. Ganz began his long association with loan trading and
securitization at Citibank, N.A., where, from 1986 through
1991, he supervised the commercial and real estate Loan
Syndications and Trading units of the Investment Bank. He
also supervised the securitization and the par and distressed
loan trading businesses at ING Barings Securities from 1991
through 1996, and the entire U.S. loan and securitization
platforms at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce from 1996
until he joined the LSTA, in May 2005.
Mr. Ganz began his legal career in 1980 as an associate at
the law firm of Lord Day & Lord where he focused on film and
media finance and moved to Chase Manhattan Bank in 1983
where he concentrated on secured lending.
Mr. Ganz received his J.D. in 1980 from the New York University
School of Law where he served as Research Editor of the
Annual Survey of American Law.
Mr. Ganz was the first chairman of the Legal Advisory
Committee of the LSTA and has served as a member of its
board of directors. He served as a member of the Steering
Committee of the Joint Market Practices Forum on Credit
Derivatives that produced the “Statement of Principles and
Recommendations Regarding the Handling of Material
Nonpublic Information by Credit Market Participants” and was
the principal draftsman of the LSTA’s “Statement of Principles
for the Use, Communication and Distribution of Confidential
Information in the Loan Market.” Mr. Ganz was elected as a
Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance
Lawyers in April 2011, was admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court
bar in April 2012 and served from 2012 through 2014 as a
member of the Advisory Committee on Financing Chapter 11
of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Commission to Study
the Reform of Chapter 11.
Speaker
Shopping for Debt: Buyer
Beware of Good Deals
Friday, Nov 1
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Archives
Craig Goldblatt WilmerHale
Washington, DC
Craig Goldblatt is an experienced bankruptcy litigator, with a
focus on complex bankruptcy disputes and bankruptcy
appeals. The core of his practice has been protecting the
interests of secured creditors, financial institutions and
insurance companies in bankruptcy-related disputes, though
he has also represented leading technology, transportation
and communications industry clients in bankruptcy matters. Mr.
Goldblatt joined the firm in 1994. Mr. Goldblatt represents parties in all stages of bankruptcy
proceedings. The core of his practice involves bankruptcy and
insolvency related trial-level matters and appeals—particularly
the representation of financial institutions and other
commercial creditors in bankruptcy litigation. He has argued
three bankruptcy cases before the Supreme Court of the
United States, and one before the en banc Third Circuit. He
has testified before a congressional committee on issues of
bankruptcy law and policy. He has also developed a
particular expertise on consumer bankruptcy matters,
representing several major mortgage servicers, holders of
credit card and other unsecured debt, and bankruptcy
trustees in a variety of regulatory investigations, bankruptcy
disputes and appeals.
Outside of his bankruptcy practice, Mr. Goldblatt participated
in WilmerHale's representation of the University of Michigan,
from the district court to the Supreme Court, in Grutter v.
Bollinger, 539 US 306 (2003). The Supreme Court's decision in
that case held that institutions of higher education may
consider race as a factor in admissions decisions. He has also
represented an array of pro bono clients in civil rights, criminal
and constitutional litigation.
Mr. Goldblatt is a conferee of the National Bankruptcy
Conference and is the chair of the ABA Business Bankruptcy
Committee's Subcommittee on Bankruptcy Litigation. He
previously served as Chair of the Subcommittees on
Bankruptcy Appeals and on Environmental and Mass Tort
Claims. He is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy,
and chairs the College's Fourth Circuit Education
Committee. He has taught as an adjunct professor at the
Georgetown University Law Center. He is a regular speaker at
ABA, ABI and other conferences on bankruptcy matters. Mr.
Goldblatt also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Lawyers'
Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
Program Co-
Chair/Moderator
Shopping for Debt: Buyer
Beware of Good Deals
Friday, Nov 1
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Archives
M. Ruthie Hagan Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
Memphis, TN
M. Ruthie Hagan works in the Bankruptcy and Commercial
Restructuring group of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell &
Berkowitz, P.C. in its Memphis, Tennessee office.
Ms. Hagan primarily handles sophisticated business workouts,
and complex commercial bankruptcy. She has represented
debtors, creditors, trustees, unsecured creditors committee, and
equity holders in a variety of proceedings in bankruptcy court,
as well as complex transactional work in the context of
commercial restructurings and workouts. Ms. Hagan has
represented more than a dozen healthcare debtors in complex
bankruptcy cases, but the majority of her practice has been
dedicated to representation of secured and unsecured
commercial creditors in a variety of matters, including
liquidating and reorganizing Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases,
section 363 sale issues, cash collateral issues, lien priority and
avoidance actions, preference actions, rejection/assumption of
executory contracts, stay relief actions, discharge and
dischargeability actions, asset recovery and disposition,
contested confirmation hearings, adversary proceedings,
bankruptcy appeals to district court and BAP, as well as
representation of secured creditor in single asset bankruptcy
proceeding.
Ms. Hagan graduated cum laude from the University of
Arkansas School of Law where she served as Managing Editor of
the Arkansas Law Review and was the recipient of the
American Bankruptcy Institute Medal of Excellence. She has a
master's degree in Higher Education (University of Arkansas) and
a BS in Chemistry (University of Kansas).
She served as Co-Chair of the Bankruptcy Section of Memphis
Bar Association, Executive Council Member of the Tennessee
Bar Association Bankruptcy Section, Director of the Mid-South
Commercial Law Institute, member of the American Bankruptcy
Institute, and has been named to Mid-South Rising Stars in
Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights for several years.
Speaker
Shopping for Debt: Buyer
Beware of Good Deals
Friday, Nov 1
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Archives
Monique Hayes Goldstein & McClintock
Miami, FL
Monique D. Hayes practices in the areas of business
transactions, commercial litigation, creditors rights and
corporate restructuring. She has extensive experience
advising fiduciaries, corporate and non-profit board
members, entrepreneurs, and small businesses. Monique has
successfully represented clients in a broad range of
bankruptcy matters including claim prosecution, asset sales
and acquisitions; finance transactions, bankruptcy plan
confirmations, avoidance actions, directors and officers
claim litigation, Ponzi scheme and other fraud litigation. She
also has substantial experience representing franchisors in
franchisee bankruptcy proceedings. In the innovation and
technology sector Monique has represented start-ups,
entrepreneurs, and founders in corporate formations and
restructuring, due diligence, and related transactional
matters.
Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Hayes served as law
clerk to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laurel Myerson Isicoff and as
a consumer bankruptcy attorney for Legal Services of
Greater Miami, Inc. She was an attorney at the law firm
Genovese, Joblove & Battista, P.A. before moving on to join
Goldstein & McClintock, LLLP.
Speaker
Current Developments
Friday, Nov 1
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Archives
Whitman L. Holt Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP
Los Angeles, CA
Whitman L. Holt is a partner of Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff &
Stern LLP in Los Angeles, California, and has represented
clients across the bankruptcy spectrum. Mr. Holt’s active
bankruptcy-related appellate practice includes briefing
multiple matters before the Supreme Court of the United
States, most recently as counsel of record for the National
Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys and the
National Consumer Bankruptcy Rights Center in Midland
Funding, LLC v. Johnson. Mr. Holt is the co-author (with
Kenneth N. Klee) of Bankruptcy and the Supreme Court:
1801-2014 (West Academic 2015) and of a periodic series of
commentaries about bankruptcy and the Supreme Court for
the LexisNexis Emerging Issues Analysis project. Mr. Holt also is
a contributing author to the Collier bankruptcy treatise. In
2015, Mr. Holt was elected as a Conferee of the National
Bankruptcy Conference, which is an invitation-only
organization dedicated to advising Congress about the
operation of bankruptcy and related laws. In 2017, Mr. Holt
was included in the American Bankruptcy Institute’s
inaugural list of “40 Under 40” bankruptcy, insolvency, and
restructuring professionals from around the world. Mr. Holt is
a graduate of Bates College and Harvard Law School.
Speaker
Shopping for Debt: Buyer
Beware of Good Deals
Friday, Nov 1
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Archives
Hon. Mary Jo Heston United States Bankruptcy Court for Western Dist. of WA.
Tacoma, WA
Mary Jo Heston currently is a United States Bankruptcy Judge for
the Western District of Washington. She previously was a
shareholder in the Seattle and Portland Offices of Lane Powell
PC where her practice involved commercial litigation and
transactional matters with an emphasis on business
reorganizations, Canadian/US cross-border cases and the
acquisition of troubled businesses. Between 1988 and 1993 Ms.
Heston served as the first Region 18 United States Trustee,
overseeing bankruptcy cases and fiduciaries in Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, Alaska and Montana. She also is a former law
clerk to a bankruptcy judge and a district judge as well as a
former estate administrator of the federal bankruptcy court
where she now sits as Bankruptcy Judge. Judge Heston taught
bankruptcy courses for over twenty years at both Seattle
University School of Law and University of Washington Law
School. She is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy
and an active participant in both professional organizations and
community service organizations currently serving or having
served in leadership/board positions for the American
Bankruptcy Institute, INSOL International, the Washington State
Bar Association - Debtor Creditor Section, the Turnaround
Management Association and CENTS (the local pro
bono/financial education organization) Judge Heston is a
frequent international, national and regional speaker and
author on topics including international insolvency issues,
creditors’ rights issues, commercial and consumer insolvency
issues and best practices for insolvency judges.
Speaker
Chapter 11 Trustees and
Chief Financial Officers,
Can They Peacefully
Exist?
Thursday, Oct 31
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Liberty
Henry Kevane Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP
San Francisco, CA
Henry Kevane has represented both debtors and creditors in
bankruptcy matters nationwide for over thirty years. He is the
managing partner of the San Francisco office of Pachulski
Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP. Mr. Kevane has worked with clients
from a wide variety of industries, including the debtors in the
Chapter 11 cases of Deltagen, Yipes Communications and
Worlds of Wonder, and the creditors’ committees in the
Chapter 11 cases of SeraCare Life Sciences, America West
Airlines and Guy F. Atkinson Company. He has also
participated in several Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy
cases, including the Mendocino Coast Health Care District,
County of Orange, Adair County Hospital District (Kentucky),
West Contra Costa Healthcare District and Palm Drive Health
Care District. Mr. Kevane has written and lectured on
numerous cross-border, intellectual property, federal asset
forfeiture and municipal restructuring topics. He is an author
of the book CHAPTER 9 BANKRUPTCY STRATEGIES published in
2011 by Thomson Reuters/Aspatore and also contributed to
the book DEBTOR-IN POSSESSION FINANCING: FUNDING A
CHAPTER 11 CASE published in 2012 by the American
Bankruptcy Institute. In 2015, he was inducted as a Fellow in
the American College of Bankruptcy. He is a past chair of
two committees of the State Bar of California, the Insolvency
Law Committee of the Business Law Section (1995-1999) and
the Committee on Federal Courts (1996-2001). Mr. Kevane is
a graduate of Brown University and Southwestern Law
School. He is a member of the Board of Directors and the
Treasurer of the Ocean Avenue Association, a California
public benefit corporation.
Program Chair
The Bankruptcy Slave
Trade: A Conversation
with Professor Rafael
Pardo
Thursday, Oct 31
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Mint
Gary Klausner Levene, Neale, Bender, Yoo & Brill, LLP
Los Angeles, CA
Gary Klausner joined LNBYB as a senior partner in May 2014,
from a senior shareholder position at Stutman, Treister & Glatt,
P.C. Mr. Klausner has exclusively practiced in the field of
corporate restructuring and bankruptcy since 1976. He
represents Chapter 11 debtors, secured and unsecured
creditors, creditors' committees, trustees and receivers,
licensors and franchisors, purchasers of assets out of
bankruptcy cases and parties involved in litigation and
appeals in connection with bankruptcy cases. He has
handled cases involving a broad range of businesses and
industries including real estate development, hospitality and
restaurants, aerospace, entertainment, retail, health care
and transportation. He also has expertise in Chapter 9 of the
Bankruptcy Code, which is designed for the reorganization of
municipalities. He currently co-chairs the American Bar
Association's Business Bankruptcy Committee’s Chapter 11
Sub-Committee. Mr. Klausner was recognized in 2012 as
“Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year” by the Century City Bar
Association, and was elected a Fellow of the American
College of Bankruptcy in 2009. He is also a past president
and member of the Board of Governors of the Financial
Lawyers Conference and a past president and board
member of the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum.
Program Co-Chair
Chapter 11 Trustees and
Chief Financial Officers,
Can They Peacefully
Exist?
Thursday, Oct 31
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Liberty
Mette H. Kurth Fox Rothschild LLP
Wilmington, DE
Mette represents clients facing complex, financially distressed
situations and bankruptcy issues, and is a certified mediator for
the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Named
one of the leading bankruptcy and restructuring attorneys in
California and Delaware by Chambers USA, Mette has a
reputation for providing unwavering and dogged
representation in sophisticated workouts, restructurings,
distressed M&A transactions and bankruptcy matters to help
ensure her clients attain the best possible outcome.
Clients hailing from a range of industries – retail, restaurant,
hospitality, agriculture, fitness, financial services, health care,
real estate, and media and entertainment – praise Mette’s skill
in the insolvency world, referring to her as “a pit bull in heels”
and a “rock-hard…negotiator.”
Utilizing her razor-sharp business acumen and a practical
approach to her clients’ financial challenges, Mette represents
debtors, creditors, investors, creditor committees and other
parties in all areas of reorganization, distressed sales and
acquisitions, liquidations and bankruptcy-related litigation.
With a high degree of emotional intelligence, Mette also
possesses a keen ability to adeptly and effectively manage
the most challenging people and situations that often arise in
bankruptcy. With this trait, she has gained a reputation for
successfully and smoothly handling confrontational
negotiations in her client representations.
Mette completed the American Bankruptcy Institute/St. John’s
University School of Law Bankruptcy Mediation Training
Program in 2018.
Program Co-
Chair/Moderator
Chapter 11 Trustees and
Chief Financial Officers,
Can They Peacefully
Exist?
Thursday, Oct 31
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Liberty
Corali Lopez-Castro Kozyak Tropin & Throckmartin LLP
Miami, FL
Corali Lopez-Castro has been a partner at Kozyak Tropin &
Throckmorton, LLP since 1998. She was Managing Partner of the
firm from 2011 through 2012. She concentrates her practice on
bankruptcy and commercial litigation matters. Cori’s practice
reflects her extensive experience and expertise with bankruptcy
reorganizations and liquidations, receiverships, debt
restructuring, and creditors’ rights. She has been involved with
the liquidation of four bank holding companies in bankruptcy
courts around the country and state court. Cori served on the
panel of Trustees for the Southern District of Florida between
1998 and 2002, during which she was responsible for the
liquidation of assets in bankruptcy cases filed in the United
States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida. She
has also been appointed a receiver in several cases.
In 2018, Cori was inducted into the International Academy of
Trial Lawyers (IATL). In 2014, Cori was inducted as a Fellow into
the 25th Class of the American College of Bankruptcy. The
College recognizes individuals for their professional excellence
and contributions to the field of restructuring and insolvency. In
2006, she was elected the second woman president of the
Cuban American Bar Association, the largest voluntary bar
association in Florida. Cori has devoted most of her career
promoting diversity in the legal profession.
Program Co-Chair
Shopping for Debt: Buyer
Beware of Good Deals
Friday, Nov 1
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Archives
Robert Millner Dentons
Chicago, IL
Robert B. Millner is a senior counsel at Dentons U.S. LLP, where
he practices in bankruptcy and commercial litigation.
Among other things, he represents financial institutions and
insurance companies in significant bankruptcy litigation and
complex real estate matters. Robert has represented insurance carriers in most of the
major asbestos-related bankruptcies filed in the United States
in the last twenty years and in several Catholic Church
bankruptcies and has restructured a vast amount of
mortgage debt on behalf of lenders. Robert is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy,
where he chairs the International Committee. He also chairs
the Mass Tort Subcommittee of the Business Bankruptcy
Committee of the American Bar Association and is a former
chair of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Committee of the
Section of Litigation of the ABA. Robert is also a member of
the International Insolvency Institute. Robert is a frequent
lecturer at major seminars and is author of numerous articles
and papers on bankruptcy topics, including Insurance Issues
in Bankruptcy, a Collier Monograph, Lexis Nexis, 2014. Robert is a graduate of Wesleyan University (B.A.) and
University of Chicago Law School. He is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa and clerked for the late George C. Edwards of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Robert
has been ranked in Chambers USA since 2004, including 2017
(Bankruptcy/Restructuring - Illinois, Band 2), Robert is noted as
“highly regarded by clients and peers, who say: ‘He is one of
the most intelligent, far-seeing and academic attorneys I’ve
ever met. He’s a brilliant person.’”
Speaker
Current Developments
Friday, Nov 1
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Archives
Rafael Pardo Emory University School of Law
Atlanta, GA
Rafael Pardo is the Robert T. Thompson Professor of Law at
Emory University. His research and teaching interests are in
bankruptcy and commercial law. Professor Pardo received his
BA in history from Yale College and his JD from New York
University School of Law, where he served as an executive
editor of the New York University Law Review and was a
recipient of the Judge John J. Galgay Fellowship in Bankruptcy
and Reorganization Law. He is an elected member of the
American Law Institute and has testified as a bankruptcy
expert before both houses of Congress. In 2015, he received
the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest
university honor for teaching given by Emory University to a full-
time faculty member.
Speaker
The Bankruptcy Slave
Trade: A Conversation
with Professor Rafael
Pardo
Thursday, Oct 31
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Mint
Larry Perkins SierraConstellation
Los Angeles, CA
Larry Perkins, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of
SierraConstellation Partners, has more 20 years of
management and advisory experience with companies
undergoing transition. Larry has enhanced business
performance for numerous companies on projects ranging
from interim management, profit improvement and working
capital management to and transaction execution. Prior to founding SCP, Larry was a senior managing director
and regional leader of a national consulting firm where he
was responsible client service delivery, business
development, staffing, and general management of the
firm’s western region. Larry joined the firm in 2010 when it
acquired El Molino Advisors, a company he founded in
January, 2007 and led as the CEO.
Mr. Perkins has served in a variety of senior level positions
including Chief Restructuring Officer (CRO), CEO, CFO,
Turnaround Advisor, Strategic Consultant, Investment Banker,
Financial Executive, and Crisis Manager to numerous middle
market companies and is particular skilled at assisting clients
through challenging situations.
Larry is frequent public speaker, and has been cited as an
expert on the topics of restructuring, corporate governance,
and M&A in publications including the Wall Street Journal,
the New York Times, CNN, CNBC, and the Washington Post.
Larry began his career in the strategic consulting group of
Arthur Andersen after graduating from the University of
Southern California Marshall School of Business. He is
currently on the board of several non-profits, and three
corporate boards, and is a member of the Young Presidents
Organization.
Speaker
Chapter 11 Trustees and
Chief Financial Officers,
Can They Peacefully
Exist?
Thursday, Oct 31
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Liberty
Clay Roberts White & Case LLP
Miami, FL
Clay B. Roberts is an associate in the Financial Restructuring
and Insolvency Practice of White & Case LLP. He has
experience in domestic and international restructuring
matters, representing debtors, creditors, and other parties in
interest, both in and out-of-court. Clay also has substantial
experience litigating insolvency-related disputes. Clay is the
Co-Chair for the Chapter 11 Subcommittee in the American
Bar Association's Business Law Section. He also frequently
writes articles on restructuring and bankruptcy issues. Prior to
joining White & Case, Clay served as law clerk to the
Honorable Laurel M. Isicoff, Chief Judge for the United States
Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Program Co-Chair
Chapter 11 Trustees and
Chief Financial Officers,
Can They Peacefully
Exist?
Thursday, Oct 31
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Liberty
Nan Roberts Eitel U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, DC
Nan Roberts Eitel joined the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees
as Associate General Counsel for Chapter 11 in July 2010.
Working with other members of the General Counsel’s
office, Ms. Eitel advises the program’s 90 field offices and 21
regions on complex chapter 11 issues and coordinates with
them and others in the Executive Office to develop and to
promote consistent positions on chapter 11 issues significant
to the program. In 2015, Nan received the Attorney General’s Award for
Outstanding Contributions by a New Employee, which
recognizes exceptional performance and notable
accomplishments toward the Department of Justice’s
mission by an employee with fewer than five years of
federal service. In 2018, the Attorney General recognized
Nan with a Distinguished Service Award, the Department’s
second highest honor for employee performance. Before joining the Executive Office, Ms. Eitel was a partner in
the Jones Walker law firm, where she practiced in the
bankruptcy and commercial litigation groups for 21 years
(16 in New Orleans and 5 in Washington, DC). Ms. Eitel
received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of
Law in 1989 and her B.A., cum laude, from Georgetown
University in 1984.
Speaker
Chapter 11 Trustees and
Chief Financial Officers,
Can They Peacefully
Exist?
Thursday, Oct 31
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Liberty
Grace Robson Markowitz Ringel Trusty & Hartog, PA
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Grace E. Robson is a partner with the law firm of Markowitz
Ringel Trusty & Hartog, P.A. and resident of the firm’s Fort
Lauderdale office. She is a Board-Certified Business
Bankruptcy attorney with 20 years of experience
representing corporate debtors, trade and institutional
creditors, trustees, receivers, and creditors’ committees. She
focuses her practice on corporate reorganization and
bankruptcy, debtor-creditor relations and litigation. Grace
has been involved in all facets of reorganization-related
representations, including pre-filing consultation, filing
complex corporate bankruptcy cases, post-bankruptcy
financing, and asset purchase agreements. Representative
clients include public and privately-held corporations in the
technology, food-service, travel and hospitality industries.
Ms. Robson is a member of the American Bar Association, the
American Bankruptcy Institute, the Bankruptcy Bar Association
for the Southern District of Florida, the International Women’s
Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), and the
Business Law Section of the Florida Bar.
Ms. Robson was born in Queens, New York, received her law
degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (New
York City) in 1997 and her undergraduate degree, cum laude,
from the University at Albany in 1994.
Program Co-
Chair/Moderator/
Program Materials
Coordinator
When Worlds Collide:
How to Represent the Pro
Bono Client When
Bankruptcy is Only Part of
the Solution
Wednesday, Oct 30
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM
Location: Archives
Michael Sabella Baker & Hostetler LLP
New York, NY
Michael Sabella focuses his practice on the areas of
bankruptcy, restructuring, creditors’ rights and complex
commercial litigation. Drawing upon his clerkship and prior
legal experience, Michael combines his understanding of the
transactional and litigation sides of bankruptcy for a
thorough and proactive approach to all client situations. He
assists debtors, creditors and interested parties in a variety of
industries on all aspects of representation on bankruptcy
issues, including claims recovery, secured transactions, real
estate, international insolvency, and corporate insolvencies.
Michael also represents corporate officers and directors in
litigation that challenges their actions and roles in
connection with the management and operations of
businesses. Michael has spoken and written about a wide
range of bankruptcy issues, including case-specific appellate
decisions, preference issues and interpretations of
components of the Bankruptcy Code. Michael also devotes
time to assist pro bono clients with LGBTQ+ issues, asylum
applications, post-conviction relief, and amicus briefs for
different human rights and interest groups.
Program Materials
Coordinator
The Bankruptcy Slave
Trade: A Conversation
with Professor Rafael
Pardo
Thursday, Oct 31
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Mint
David Skeel University of Pennsylvania Law School
Philadelphia, PA
David Skeel is the S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law
at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is author of
True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex
World (InterVarsity, 2014), The New Financial Deal:
Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and its (Unintended)
Consequences (Wiley, 2011); Icarus in the Boardroom: The
Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They
Came From (Oxford, 2005); Debt's Dominion: A History of
Bankruptcy Law in America (Princeton, 2001); and numerous
articles on bankruptcy and financial distress, corporate law,
Christianity and law, law and literature, and other topics. His
commentary has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, Weekly Standard, Books & Culture, and elsewhere. In
August, 2016, he was appointed by President Obama to serve
on the oversight board for Puerto Rico.
Moderator
The Bankruptcy Slave
Trade: A Conversation
with Professor Rafael
Pardo
Thursday, Oct 31
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Mint
James H.M. Sprayregen Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
Chicago, IL
James H.M. Sprayregen is a Restructuring partner in the
Chicago and New York offices of Kirkland & Ellis and served on
Kirkland’s worldwide management committee from 2003-2006
and 2009-2019. Mr. Sprayregen is recognized as one of the
outstanding restructuring lawyers in the United States and
around the world and has led some of the most complex
Chapter 11 filings in recent history. He has extensive
experience representing major U.S. and international
companies in restructurings out of court and in court around
the globe and has handled matters for clients in industries as
varied as manufacturing, technology, transportation, energy,
media, retail, and real estate. He has extensive experience
advising boards of directors, and generally representing
debtors and creditors in complex workout, insolvency,
restructuring, and bankruptcy planning matters worldwide.
Chambers & Partners has praised Mr. Sprayregen for his
“outstanding reputation for complex Chapter 11 cases” noting
he is a “great clients’ lawyer, admired for his unflustered ways.”
Chambers said that clients it spoke to noted that he is
“probably the best restructuring lawyer in the world.” Most
recently, sources commented that Mr. Sprayregen is “a
premier restructuring expert” and “in a class of his own” with
“unbelievable technical capabilities” and “deep experience
he can draw upon.” He was praised for his ability “to take
extraordinarily complex issues and make them understandable
for boards and executive management teams.” Prior editions
of Chambers guides have described Mr. Sprayregen as “a
world-class practice leader,” “one of the deans of the Bar,”
and “a restructuring genius and one of the best strategists in
the country” noting that clients look to him as someone who is
“providing leadership and strategic guidance on the big
issues.” Sources commended Mr. Sprayregen for his
“incredible work ethic and skill” and for his ability to “bring a
mastery of the law to practical application.” Clients are
“impressed by his boundless energy to work on issues” and
note that Mr. Sprayregen is “very good in complicated and
difficult situations.”
Speaker
Chapter 11 Trustees and
Chief Financial Officers,
Can They Peacefully
Exist?
Thursday, Oct 31
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Liberty
Hon. Elizabeth Stong U.S. Bankruptcy Court, E.D.N.Y.
Brooklyn, NY
Judge Elizabeth S. Stong is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the
Eastern District of New York. Previously, she was a partner at
Willkie Farr & Gallagher, associate at Cravath, Swaine &
Moore, and law clerk to U. S. District Judge David Mazzone.
She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the
Council of the American Law Institute, and the ABA Center
for Innovation and holds leadership roles in the International
Insolvency Institute, Practising Law Institute, P.R.I.M.E. Finance,
American Bar Foundation, and ABA Business Law Section and
Judicial Division.
Her past positions include President of the Harvard Law
School Association, Chair of the NCBJ International Judicial
Relations Committee, and Chair of the New York City Bar ADR
Committee. She also served on the ABA’s Standing
Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service, Standing
Committee on the American Judicial System, Standing
Committee on Continuing Legal Education, Commission on
Women in the Profession, and Commission on Homelessness
and Poverty.
Judge Stong has trained judges in Central Europe, North,
Central and West Africa, the Middle East, and the Arabian
Peninsula with the U.S. Commerce Department, the World
Bank, and INSOL. She has consulted with the Supreme Court
of China and People’s High Courts in Beijing and Guangzhou,
the Supreme Judicial Council in Bahrain, and led judicial
workshops in Cambodia, Argentina, Brazil and Chile. She
received the ABA Glass Cutter Award, the NYIC Hon. Cecelia
Goetz Award, the Brooklyn Bar Association’s Freda Nisnewitz
Award for Pro Bono Service, and the MFY Legal Services
Scales of Justice Award. Judge Stong is an adjunct professor
at Brooklyn Law School and St. John’s University School of
Law. She received her A.B. magna cum laude and her J.D.
from Harvard University.
Program Co-
Chair/Speaker
When Worlds Collide:
How to Represent the Pro
Bono Client When
Bankruptcy is Only Part of
the Solution
Wednesday, Oct 30
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM
Location: Archives
Clare Thomas New York Law School
New York, NY
Claire R. Thomas is an attorney, advocate, and professor
interested in migration, statelessness, human rights, and
empowerment for women and girls facing poverty and
gender-based violence. She graduated from the University of
Chicago and also studied at the Université de Paris X,
Nanterre. She holds a graduate degree from New York
University’s Center for Global Affairs, a law degree from New
York Law School, and was a Visiting Scholar at The New
School’s Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. She is an
Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School, where she
directs the Asylum Clinic, a year-long immigration law clinic
for adults and children facing removal from the United
States, as well as teaches the introductory immigration law
course. Ms. Thomas provides legal assistance for
naturalization applicants through bi-monthly immigration
clinics with CUNY Citizenship Now! and supervises two
attorneys as a consultant with The Door’s Legal Services
Center. In addition, Ms. Thomas volunteers assisting refugee
mothers and children with the CARA Pro Bono Project in
Dilley, Texas and asylum-seekers with Al Otro Lado in Tijuana,
Mexico.
Ms. Thomas is a member of the Immigration & Nationality
Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of
New York. Her writings have appeared in various law journals
and she is frequent Op-Ed contributor for news outlets. She
was an opinion columnist for Anthropology News, a
publication of the American Anthropological Association.
She speaks French fluently and is learning Spanish.
Speaker
When Worlds Collide:
How to Represent the Pro
Bono Client When
Bankruptcy is Only Part of
the Solution
Wednesday, Oct 30
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM
Location: Archives
Tamara Van Heel Agentis PLLC
Miami, FL
Tamara Van Heel is an associate at Agentis PLLC in Miami,
Florida and is a member of the firm’s restructuring and
insolvency practice group. Ms. Van Heel concentrates her
practice in the areas of bankruptcy, restructuring, and
insolvency, and has represented creditors, committees,
debtors, trustees, and purchasers of assets in a variety of
matters both in and out of court.
Prior to joining Agentis, Ms. Van Heel worked in a large
international law firm representing creditors, debtors,
committees, and purchasers in complex corporate Chapter
11 bankruptcy proceedings in Delaware, New York, and
New Jersey.
Moderator/Program
Materials Coordinator
(Almost) Everything You
Wanted to Know About
Planning and
Conducting an
Evidentiary Hearing in
Bankruptcy Court
Wednesday, Oct 30
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Location: Capitol
Sharon Weiss Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Los Angeles, California
Sharon Weiss brings an exceptional breadth of local, state,
and national level bankruptcy community ties to her
insolvency practice. Through these substantive relationships,
including those with co-counsel, adversaries, and clients, Ms.
Weiss has attained a base of experience from which she
serves as a true client advocate. She offers her clients the
personal attention and warmth of her small firm background
combined with the added benefits of the firm’s wide array of
department resources.
Ms. Weiss has extensive experience in a wide area of
insolvency matters from various perspectives, including
representation of creditors, individual and corporate debtors,
trustees, franchisors, and creditors’ committees. She has
served as lead trial counsel in bankruptcy and commercial
litigation, including alternative dispute resolution, and has
considerable experience in handling fraud and Ponzi
scheme litigation and bankruptcy appeals, which have
resulted in published Ninth Circuit opinions. Her clients
include parties engaged in banking, real estate, consumer
electronics, healthcare, restaurant, garment, entertainment,
and retail sales industries. Ms. Weiss has served as lead
counsel in out-of-court workouts and in the bankruptcy
courts in cases involving such varied issues as disputed asset
sales, financing, secured creditor rights, the avoiding powers,
executory contracts, pension plans, claims priority, plan
confirmation, surcharges, and the court’s inherent powers.
Ms. Weiss was recognized as one of the “Top Women
Lawyers” in California by the Daily Journal in 2013 and as a
notable practitioner in Chambers USA since 2012 in the
California bankruptcy and restructuring practice area. She
frequently speaks on panels regarding insolvency-related
topics. Ms. Weiss has organized dozens of programs and
panels and delivered presentations to industry groups such
as the California Society of CPAs and The Alternative Board.
She is also invited annually to speak to the Women in the Law
Seminar Class at Southwestern University School of Law in Los
Angeles, California.
Speaker
(Almost) Everything You
Wanted to Know About
Planning and
Conducting an
Evidentiary Hearing in
Bankruptcy Court
Wednesday, Oct 30
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Location: Capitol
Program Co-chair
Shopping for Debt: Buyer
Beware of Good Deals
Friday, Nov 1
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Archives
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