2017, 2017 Annual Spring Meeting

Hosted by the Business Reorganization and Unsecured Trade Creditors Committees

This session will focus on recent case law developments in the area of executory contracts. The panelists will discuss issues concerning gathering agreements and the Sabine Oil decision, collective bargaining agreements, telecommunication agreements and more.

Bringing together the perspectives of debtors, creditors and judges, this panel will survey the universe of nondischargeability causes of action, the realistic costs of pursuing and defending these actions, effective discovery and trial strategies, the impact of issue and claim preclusion based on pre-petition judgments, the anatomy of nondischargeability settlement agreements, the challenges of collection, and the prospects for recovery of attorneys’ fees.

From your first contact with your client until the entry of a discharge order and the closing of the case, risks for consumer malpractice claims abound. This panel will focus on minimizing those risks, including properly engaging the client, effectively gathering the information necessary to adequately comply with the myriad requirements and disclosures necessary to successfully commence and conclude a consumer bankruptcy case, and guarding against other hazards that could create problems for your client and for you.

Hosted by the International and Mediation Committees

This panel will discuss the evolution of mediation in cross-border insolvencies
and how it is utilized today. It will also provide insight into how cross-border
mediations differ from U.S.-centric mediations, when cross-border mediations
are most (and least) effective, and how mediators and professionals can best
prepare themselves and others for successful cross-border mediations.

The panelists will touch on recent cases and offer their prognostications
as to the future of the equitable mootness doctrine.