Take a break! Recharge the batteries, expand the mind, and make new business contacts.  The 16th Annual Central States Bankruptcy Workshop is open for business!

You’ll have the opportunity to earn 11 hours of CLE/CPE credit on such hot topics as:

• How to Avoid Problems with the Trustee: Consumer Best Practices

• Tell It to the Bankruptcy Judge?: Limitations on Bankruptcy Court Jurisdiction
• Keep Your License: Ethical Issues for Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, Debtor and Creditor
• So Much Information, So Little Time: Managing Consumer Cases in the Electronic Age
• Remember When That Real Estate Was Worth Something? Dealing with the Distressed Real Estate Market in Insolvency and Restructuring Proceedings
• The Never-ending Story: Recent Trends in Automotive Restructuring
• Chapter 13 Discharge Issues: How to Reach the Finish Line
• Consumer Practitioners: How’s Life under BAPCPA? An Update on Post-BAPCPA Consumer Case Law
• “Disclose, Disclose, Disclose !!!” : Ethics Issues in Business Cases
• Business Practitioners: Life under BAPCPA—The Impact of BAPCPA and Rule Changes in Chapter 11 Cases

• Plenary sessions will feature two mornings of the Jaunty Judicial Debates, and the lively Breakfast with a Judge, featuring the Judges of the 6th and 7th Districts.

• Problems, Problems, Problems (Special Workshop Track)

New this year; an alternative kind of workshop, one for business bankruptcy and one for consumer bankruptcy. Judge-facilitators will moderate discussion on hypothetical problems, which the participants will receive in advance of the conference to study (remember law school?). The discussions are guaranteed to be challenging and stimulating. Advance registration is limited to the first 20 registrants.  Don’t delay!

On the shores of Lake Michigan, the Grand Traverse Resort and Spa invites you to bring along the family to enjoy this beautiful area. The warm sand at the Shores Beach Club welcomes all to simply soak up the sun, set sail on a catamaran, windsurf or charter a sailing vessel. If you’d like a break from relaxing on Traverse City’s beaches, or winning big at the new casinos, there are plenty of activities available.

Optional events include the annual Family Picnic/Barbeque, Golf Tournament, and Late Night Dance Lounge.  The staggeringly popular Old Mission Peninsula Wine Tour will ride again, and we’ve added two new outings this year… a Fishing Tournament, and the New & Young Members Brewpub Crawl, held Thursday afternoon before the Opening Reception on the shores of Lake Michigan.

Visit some of the many art galleries. Take in a museum. Play mini-golf or race a go-kart. Ride a restored antique carousel. Stroll though the vibrant downtown shopping district. Take advantage of the area’s many outstanding restaurants.  There’s no end to the action in Traverse City!

Mark your calendar and Register Online Today!