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Session's List

Time Session
Thursday 8:30a.m.-10:00a.m. Resolved: Assets May Not Be Sold Free and Clear over the Objection of Junior Secured Creditors
Thursday 8:30a.m.-10:00a.m. Resolved: Not Too Big to Fail—Bankruptcy Is Better than Bailout
Thursday 8:30a.m.-10:00a.m. Resolved: The Time Is Now for Consumer Bankruptcy Reform
Thursday 10:15a.m.-11:45a.m. Plenary Session - Protecting Consumer in Financial Markets: New Developments in BAPCPA Reform, Credit Cards and Unsafe Credit Products
Thursday 2:15p.m.-3:45p.m. Plenary Session - The Government-Managed Economy—TARP, Mortgage Modification, etc.: Is Anything Working?
Thursday 4:00p.m.-5:30p.m. Asset Sales/Real Estate/National Auctioneers Association (joint): Maximizing the Value of Commercial Real Estate, Machinery and Equipment and Intellectual Property through the Auction Process
Thursday 4:00p.m.-5:30p.m. Business Reorganization: Class Actions in Chapter 11 Cases
Thursday 4:00p.m.-5:30p.m. Consumer Bankruptcy/Bankruptcy Taxation (joint): The Financial Nuts and Bolts of Representing a (Really) Small Business
Thursday 4:00p.m.-5:30p.m. Financial Advisors: How Lenders are Coping with the New Realities of the Economy and Credit Markets
Thursday 4:00p.m.-5:30p.m. Health Care: Traditional and Alternative Financing Vehicles for Health Care Available in Today's Tight Financial Environment
Thursday 4:00p.m.-5:30p.m. Legislation: Washington Update
Friday 8:00a.m.-9:30a.m. Employee Benefits: Pension Plan Liens: Nature, Scope and Peculiarities
Friday 8:00a.m.-9:30a.m. Ethics: Caveat Consuasor (Let the Advisor Beware): Ethics Missteps and Lessons in Client Management, Representation and Advocacy Found in Recent Rulings
Friday 8:00a.m.-9:30a.m. International: Representing the Foreign Creditor in Today's Financial Meltdown
Friday 8:00a.m.-9:30a.m. Investment Banking: Reorganizations, Going-Concern Sales and Liquidations in the Current Capital Markets: Potential Treatment of Creditors' Claims, Valuation and Feasibility Issues, and Other Considerations Affecting a Debtor's Strategic Alternatives
Friday 8:00a.m.-9:30a.m. Law School: Did Bankruptcy Reform Fail? An Empirical Study of Consumer Debtors
Friday 8:00a.m.-9:30a.m. Professional Compensation: Current Trends and Perspectives in Connection with the Retention and Employment of Professional Persons under the Bankruptcy Code
Friday 8:00a.m.-9:30a.m. Public Companies and Claims Trading: Financial Institution Bankruptcies - Should They Change The Way We Think About Chapter 11?
Friday 9:30a.m.-11:00a.m. Trimming the Hedges: Liquidations of Private Equity/Hedge Funds
Friday 9:30a.m.-11:00a.m. Sophisticated Planning or Playing a Shell Game - Asset Protection Planning
Friday 9:30a.m.-11:00a.m. SOS for Retail: Only the Strongest Survive
Friday 9:30a.m.-11:00a.m. After Marrama: Applying Good-faith Standard in Bankruptcy
Friday 11:15a.m.-12:30p.m. The State of Real Estate Industry and What's Next in Bankruptcies and Restructurings
Friday 11:15a.m.-12:30p.m. Third-party Releases, Exculpation Provisions, Plan Injunctions and Postconfirmation Jurisdiction
Friday 11:15a.m.-12:30p.m. Water in the Sahara: What's Next in the Credit, DIP Lending and Exit Financing Markets?
Friday 11:15a.m.-12:30p.m. Ethical Issues for Creditors in Consumer Cases
Friday 2:15p.m.-3:45p.m. Selling Strategies - Finding Buyers and Managing an Effective Sale Process
Friday 2:15p.m.-3:45p.m. New Wave of Litigation - Fraudulent Transfers, Broken Commitments, Failure to Fund, Lack of Good Faith
Friday 2:15p.m.-3:45p.m. Staying Out of the Quicksand: Ethical Considerations in Bankruptcy for Turnaround Professionals
Friday 2:15p.m.-3:45p.m. Practical Strategies to Maximize the Debtor Ability to Get a Discharge in Chapter 13
Friday 4:00p.m.-5:30p.m. Bankruptcy Litigation/Finance and Banking (joint): Lender Liability in the Current Financial Crisis: The Latest Thinking on Selected Issues
Friday 4:00p.m.-5:30p.m. Court Administration/Technology and Telecommunications (joint): Net Neutrality and Identity Theft
Friday 4:00p.m.-5:30p.m. Commercial Fraud: Behind the Book "Enron and Other Corporate Fiascos: The Corporate Scandal Reader." Why the Author Wrote the Book, What it Means and Why You Should Read It
Friday 4:00p.m.-5:30p.m. Mass Torts: Ethics in Mass-Tort Bankruptcies: The Issues Are Only Outnumbered by the Claimants
Friday 4:00p.m.-5:30p.m. Uniform Commercial Code: Topic 1 - Reclamation and 503(b)(9) Issues in the Aftermath of Sixth Circuit's Decision in Phar-Mor vs. McKesson and Topic 2 - Article 3: Where's the Note? Who's the Holder? Enforcement of Promissory Notes Secured by Real Estate
Friday 4:00p.m.-5:30p.m. Unsecured Trade Creditors: Exploring the Tensions Between Guarantors and Trade Creditors
Friday 4:00p.m.-5:30p.m. Young and New Members/Alternative Dispute Resolution (joint): The Bankruptcy Boom Is Here: Are You Prepared for the Exponential Growth of Bankruptcy Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution?
Saturday 8:30a.m.-10:00a.m. Judicial Roundtable: Proving Valuation—What's Persuasive and What's Not
Saturday 10:15a.m.-11:15a.m. Multimedia Ethics Extravaganza
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