What's New at ABI World
Online Features of Interest to
Professional Compensation Committee Member

• Check out the new ABI World to view the upgraded Professional Compensation Committee section. The new “committees” area of the web site allocates space for each ABI committee. From the home page, click on “About ABI” and then “Committees” to see all of ABI’s committees. In the left-hand navigation in blue, click on “Professional Compensation.”

Once you click on the Professional Compensation Committee, you will notice that the left-hand navigation in blue has changed again. Within the main page, you will see a listing of the committee chairs, the committee listserves (where you can join or view the Professional Compensation Committee listserve) and agendas for any upcoming meetings of the committee. In the left-hand navigation you will note that beneath “Professional Compensation” there are three new options: Minutes, Newsletter and Educational Materials. The “Minutes” page provides minutes from past Professional Compensation Committee meetings. The “Newsletter” page provides all back issues of the Professional Compensation electronic newsletter. The “Educational Materials” page provides educational materials from past conferences that address professional compensation issues.

• The May issue of the ABI Journal features an article titled “Watching Sausage Being Made—the Supreme Court, Not the FDA—Lamie v. U.S. Trustee” (C.R. "Chip" Bowles Jr., Greenebaum, Doll & MacDonald PLLC; Louisville, Ky.). The April issue features an article titled “Retention and Compensation of Investment Bankers in Bankruptcy Cases When Certain Investment Banking Services Are Performed Pre-petition” (Maxim B. Litvak, Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young, Jones & Weintraub P.C., San Francisco; James H.M. Sprayregen, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago; James A. Stempel, Kirkland & Ellis; Chicago; Laura Davis Jones, Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young, Jones & Weintraub P.C., Wilmington, Del.; and Debra I. Grassgreen, Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young, Jones & Weintraub P.C., San Francisco). Search the online ABI Journal archive for other articles related to professional compensation.

• Looking for a new employee or searching for a new job? Check out the new ABI Career Center — the one-stop site for job seekers and employers in the insolvency community. Stop by to set up your personal profile or search the available positions (over 120 on average). Employers are invited to post free job listings and search the job-seeker database for possible candidates.

• Check out the latest Collier Case Update offered at ABI World. Case summaries are available to ABI members.

• The latest edition of the West Bankruptcy Newsletter is now available. Provided by West Group, the newsletter is a weekly update on bankruptcy and debtor/creditor matters.