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BAPCPA One Year On: Lessons Learned and Outlook

Hits and Misses in the New Code's Rookie Year

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Hosted By : Beard Group Law and Business Publishers

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Landmark legislationcomplex and technicalpoorly writtena love letter to lenderseven unconstitutional BAPCPA in its first year has been called many things by proponents and critics alike.

But no matter what you call it, the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 has been undeniably the most sweeping reform of the bankruptcy system since the passage of the Bankruptcy Code in 1978.

Now two of the countrys top legal minds Stephen Selbst, head of McDermott Will & Emerys New York bankruptcy practice, and the Honorable Louis M. Phillips, retired Chief Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Louisiana provide a first-year report card and expert commentary on BAPCPAs repercussions in several key areas of business bankruptcy practice.

With this audio CD (recorded late September 2006), you and your staff will examine the new Codes intent and latest court interpretations in

- Key employee retention programs are traditional KERPs dead?
· Debtors exclusive periods and filing plans of reorganizations
· Small business cases have the gloom-and-doom predictions come true?
· Non-residential real property leases
· Single-asset real estate cases better or worse after BAPCPA?
· · Utility deposits has there been a big impact on the protection of the automatic stay?
· Preference actions just out is the first published decision interpreting the preference provisions for an "ordinary course of business" defense. What can we learn from it?
· Health care are the reforms working?
· And more

Speaker(s):

	Stephen B. Selbst McDermott Will & Emery
Stephen Selbst is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery and head of the firms New York bankruptcy practice. He has represented debtors, secured creditors, bondholders and distressed investors in Chapter 11 cases for more than 20 years. In recent engagements, he served as co-counsel to Parmalat USA in its successful reorganization, and he currently serves as counsel to St. Vincents Catholic Medical Centers of New York and to AMBAC Assurance Corp. in the Delta Airlines case.
	The Honorable Louis M. Phillips Partner, Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan LLP
The Honorable Louis M. Phillps is the retired Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. During his tenure, he authored numerous opinions of first impression of Louisiana state law and bankruptcy law, and was the author of a number of opinions that ultimately were adopted by the Fifth Circuit and other courts as the law of those courts. He also presided over the first conversion to a totally electronic filing and docketing system within the Federal Courts of the United States. Now he is a partner with the law firm of Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, LLP, in Baton Rouge. There he serves as the leader of the firm's Insolvency and Bankruptcy Practice Group. Since 1988, Judge Phillips has held the position of Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law at the Louisiana State University Law Center. He also is the permanent chair of the annual Bankruptcy Law Seminar sponsored by the Louisiana State University Center for Continuing Professional Development, a program he developed and has chaired since 1995. He is a contributing editor to the Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice 2nd, and is the author of many articles for law reviews and other periodicals.

BAPCPA One Year On: Lessons Learned and Outlook


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