Friday, December 3, 2004

7:30–8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

Sponsored by Donlin, Recano & Company

8:00–9:15 am

The “Supremes” and Other Hot Acts: The Year in Review and Emerging Issues in 2005

• Hon. Judith K. Fitzgerald, Moderator U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Pittsburgh
• Prof. Ralph E. Brubaker University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, Ill.
• Hon. Randolph J. Haines U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Phoenix
• Prof. Edward Janger ABI Resident Scholar Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn

9:00 am

Cattle Drive (Optional Event)

9:15–9:30 am

Refreshment Break

Sponsored by Development Specialists Inc.

9:30–11:00 am

Committee Educational Sessions:

• Asset Sales
• Business Reorganization & Young and New Members (joint meeting)
• Commercial Fraud Task Force
• Consumer & Professional Compensation (joint meeting)
• Health Care
• Uniform Commercial Code

11:00–11:15 am

Concurrent Sessions:

A. The Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors Presents: Outsourcing and Offshoring—Panacea or Pandora’s Box?

• John Tittle Jr., Moderator XRoads Solutions Group Inc., Dallas
• Saul E. Burian Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, New York
• Susan K. George CIT Business Credit Inc., New York
• William L. Wallander Vinson & Elkins LLP, Dallas

B. What Are All of These People Doing?: A Debate on the Roles of Different Financial Advisors in Chapter 11 Cases

• Peter S. Kaufman, Moderator Gordian Group LLC, New York
• Peter M. Gilhuly Latham & Watkins LLP, Los Angeles
• J. Robert Medlin FTI Consulting Inc., Dallas
• Nancy A. Ross High Ridge Partners Inc., Chicago
• Daniel R. Williams Deloitte, Chicago

C. The “Third Way”: Federal Receivership as a Creditor Option

• Nicholas D. Tally, Moderator Wells Fargo Bank NA, Minneapolis
• William A. Brandt Jr. Development Specialists Inc., Chicago
• Kay Standridge Kress Pepper Hamilton LLP, Detroit

12:45–2:00 pm

Luncheon Program: The 2004 Election

Sponsored by Foley & Lardner LLP and Mesirow Financial Consulting, LLC

Michael Barone is America’s most astute political commentator and a bestselling author. He will provide his sharp analysis of the 2004 election during this luncheon program. Barone is Senior Writer for U.S. News & World Report and since 1971, has been the principal author of The Almanac of American Politics, published by National Journal. His books include “The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again” and his latest, “Hard America, Soft America.” A nationally syndicated columnist, he appears in the New York Times, Washington Post, Weekly Standard, New Republic, National Review, American Spectator, Economist and Daily Telegraph of London. Barone is also a political contributor for the Fox News Channel. He graduated from Harvard and Yale Law School, serving as editor of both the Harvard Crimson and Yale Law Journal.

1:00 pm

Scenic Funwater Float (Optional Event)

2:15–3:30 pm

Concurrent Sessions:

A. Here We Go Again: The Complexities of Serial Chapter 11 Cases

• John L. Palmer, Moderator NachmanHaysBrownstein Inc., Philadelphia
• Kelley M. Griesmer Jones Day, Columbus, Ohio
• Cathy Hershcopf Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman LLP, New York
• Hon. Randall J. Newsome U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Oakland, Calif.
• Timothy C. Watkins TCW Consulting, Hinsdale, Ill.

B. Whose Money Is It Anyway? The Battle Over D&O Insurance Proceeds

• Susan N.K. Gummow, Moderator Clausen Miller PC, Chicago
• David P. Bart American Express Tax & Business Services, Chicago
• Leonard P. Goldberger White and Williams LLP, Philadelphia
• Hon. Allan L. Gropper U.S. Bankruptcy Court, New York

C. Will There Be Money in the Till? (And Other Questions): Secured Creditor Issues in Chapter 13 Cases

• Elizabeth M. Bobenmoyer, Moderator Ford Motor Credit Company, Dearborn, Mich.
• Diane C. Kerns Chapter 13 Trustee, Tucson, Ariz.
• Hon. Bruce A. Markell U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Las Vegas
• Rhonda L. Nelson Severson & Werson PC, San Francisco

3:30–3:45 pm

Refreshment Break

Sponsored by Development Specialists Inc.

3:45–5:00 pm

Committee Educational Sessions

• Bankruptcy Litigation
• Ethics & Court Administration (joint meeting)
• Finance and Banking & Investment Banking (joint meeting)
• Legislation
• Public Companies and Claims Trading
• Subcommittee on Insurance, Construction and Surety

6:00–7:00 pm

Women’s Reception

Sponsored by Bridge Associates LLC

6:00–7:00 pm

American Board of Certification Reception

(ABC Certified Attorneys and ABC Board Members Only)

Sponsored by ABC Officers

7:00–10:00 pm

Rock-N-Roll Dance Party

Sponsored by EPIQ Systems Inc./Bankruptcy Services LLC (BSI); Jefferies & Co. Inc. and Nachman Hays Brownstein, Inc.

The Friday night rock-and-roll dance party will feature the “Indubitable Equivalents,” the world’s only all-ABI member rock-and-roll band. Featuring Mitch Ryan, Lead Vocals (CPT Group Inc.; Irvine, Calif.); Michael Richman, Keyboards (Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, New York and ABI President); George Kelakos, Lead Guitar (Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP, New York and ABI Director); Jack Esher, Rhythm Guitar and Bass (Riley & Esher LLP/JAMS, Boston); and Tom Salerno, Percussion (Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP, Phoenix and former ABI VP-Development)… Plus guest artists galore! Stop by for a drink, let your hair down, and shake, rattle and roll to your favorite rock classics!