ABI is pleased to periodically offer webinars on consumer bankruptcy issues that address the biggest challenges facing practitioners today.*  Held throughout the year, experts will address issues of national importance that are relevant to your local practice.  The series will be based upon consumer sessions at regional or national conferences which achieved the highest marks from attendees.

For the first in the 2009 series, ABI will updated, in a live webinar format, the extremely popular and well-received session presented by the Consumer Bankruptcy Committee, in conjunction with the Real Estate and Legislation Committees, at the Winter Leadership Conference in Tucson, December 2008. The Consumer Bankruptcy Committee's Education Director, Alane Becket of Becket & Lee, LLP in Malvern, Pa., moderated the panel for this webinar entitled "Politics, Practicality and People: The Impact of the Mortgage Meltdown in Bankruptcy, Including Mortgage Modification Legislation." The panel included Hon. David W. Houston, III, U.S. Bankruptcy Court (D. Miss.), Debra L. Miller, Standing Chapter 13 Trustee in South Bend, Ind. and Tara Twomey of the National Consumer Law Center in Carmel, Calif..

*During 2007 and 2008, ABI held a series of webinars in which experts addressed issues of national importance from a local point of view. The topics were of significance to any consumer bankruptcy practitioner from any city, but the webinars were "localized" to the city by their speakers. Topics included the means test, the discharge, credit counseling, debtor education and post-confirmation modifications, and locations included Atlanta, Nashville, Memphis, Houston and Denver.  To purchase the recording and materials from one of these sessions, please click here or visit ABI's Distance Learning Center.