Join ABI for the 17th Annual Winter Leadership Conference in beautiful Indian Wells, Calif. The meeting will be set at the Hyatt Grand Champions Resort and Spa, one of Indian Wells’s most luxurious hotels.

The program of 14 CLE credit hours (including 3 hours of ethics) features a faculty of outstanding scholars, judges and practitioner from across the United States. A wide variety of committee educational sessions will be offered. Timely topics—all updated with the latest legislative revisions—include:

• The Year in Review (other than legislation) and Emerging Issues for 2006
• Solemn Promise or Past Sin? Implications of Pension Terminations
• Pre-petition Sanctions, Contempt (Civil/Criminal), Penalties and Punitive Damages: Allowability and Enforceability
• Ten Hints to Surviving the New Consumer Bankruptcy Law
• A Gift by Any Other Name: Absolute Priority Rule after Armstrong World
• New Realities for Financial Advisors under the New Law and Other Emerging Problems
• Right Without a Remedy?: Individual and Small Business Chapter 11 under the New Code
• Breakfast Educational Program: New Law in Practice
• Ethics: Swearing Contest—Certifications of Information and Other Ethical Quandaries of the New Law
• Ethics: Special Conflicts Counsel: Best Practice or Big Case Aberration

This year’s meeting will feature stand-up comedian Steve Bridges (a.k.a. “Mr. President”) and the all-ABI member rock-and-roll band, the Indubitable Equivalents. Optional events will include golf, tennis, The Living Desert, hot air ballooning, a Joshua Tree Jeep Eco-tour, off-road quad tours and a cooking class.

Register today!