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cdcbaa Webinar

Saturday, February 24, 2024

11:00am – 1:00pm

Speakers: 

• Hon. Vincent Zurzolo | Judge, Central District of California, Los Angeles Division
• Elan Levey | Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney’s Office – Central District of California
• John Rao | National Consumer Law Center
• Raychelle Tasher | Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney’s Office – Southern District of Florida
• Hon. Magdalena Reyes Bordeaux | Judge, Central District of California, Riverside Division | Moderator

Register here.

Email from Steve Fox:

Dear All:

We have a really meaty program that the panelists will deliver with high energy.  The panel will look at recent C.D. U.S. District Court opinions discussing bankruptcy issues.  You may not want to deal with the district court but that court issues a lot of bankruptcy opinions that all of us need to know of.   The panel will be led by Roksana Moradi-Brovia who along with Eliza Ghanooni and Tamar Terzian, will make up the panel.  The materials are thick and good. 

Here are the particulars:

            Date:              Friday December 10, 2021

            Time:              12 noon to 1:15 give or take

            Place:             Via Zoom

            MCLE:             1.25 hours – Specialization credit available for this program

            Charges:        $20 to members of the SFVBA

                                    $30 to non-members of the SFVBA

            Lunch:            As tasty as you make it!

            To register:    1.         Sign up at SFVBA.org

                                    2.         Call (818) 227-0495 and ask for help to register

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Sincerely,

Steven R. Fox

The Fox Law Corporation

The Federal Bar Association (LA Chapter) is hosting its 18^th Annual Bankruptcy Ethics Symposium on Friday, November 19, 2021.  The format this year is online/webinar only.

Click here to register online (November 19, 2021)

Click here for the event flyer (pdf).

Federal Bar Association-Los Angeles Chapter’s 18^th Annual Bankruptcy Ethics Symposium

Friday, November 19, 2021

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Online / Webinar

3.5 hours of ethics CLE

SPEAKERS:

• Honorable Sandra R. Klein, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California
• Honorable Barry Russell, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California
• Honorable Martin R. Barash, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California
• John Hermann, Chief Deputy of Administration
• Ron Maroko, Office of the United States Trustee
• Misty Perry Isaacson, Pagter and Perry Isaacson, APLC
• J. Scott Bovitz, Bovitz & Spitzer
• John N. Tedford, IV, Danning, Gill, Israel & Krasnoff, LLP

Program Chair: Joseph Boufadel, Salvato Boufadel LLP

PROGRAMS:

1. Leaving Your Attorney Legacy:  Ethical Consideration in Mentoring and Succession Planning  
2. Technical Competency and Ethical Pratfalls: “I am Not a Cat” and Much More
3. Brave New World: Ethical and Practical Considerations in Conducting Remote Hearings and Trials

MCLE: 3.5 Hours Legal Ethics. This activity has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. The FBA certifies that this activity conforms to the standards of approved education activities prescribed by the rules and regulations of the State Bar of California governing minimum continuing legal education.

Thank you.

Joseph Boufadel

Salvato Boufadel LLP

Email from Steve Fix:

Dear All:

This program, dismissing complaints under Rule 12, is anything but boring.  The bar association has put two top notch (and quite humorous) speakers together on the panel.  The Honorable Barry Russell and Scott Bovitz will take us through a neat power point presentation on taking apart an opponent’s complaint, strategies whether you should bring a motion to dismiss and all of the fun that goes into these motions. Read more…

Discharge Injunction Violations: In re Marino Says Fine Print Doesn’t Save the Creditor

November 17, 2020, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Special low price- $15! 1 Hour MCLE; 1 Legal Specialization in Bankruptcy Law

Speakers: Christopher Burke, Leonard Gumport, M. Jonathan Hayes.

Marino deals with letters from creditors to a debtor that said, in the fine print, that the debtor should ignore the letter if the debtor had received a discharge. The bankruptcy court awarded $119,000 in damages to the debtor but ruled that it had no power to award punitive damages. The BAP affirmed but sent it back to the bankruptcy court saying that it could award punitive damages for violation of the discharge injunction.

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Email from Steve Fox,

Dear All:

This Friday’s meeting is a perennial meeting.  We look at selected tentative opinions of the judges who hear cases in Woodland Hills (and adding a bit of the Northern District), discuss the tentative opinions, dig in deeply into many of them to try to understand the thought process and the legal process the judges used.  We have a wide variety of opinions, some consumer, some business, some litigation, some trustee issues, so there is something for everyone.   There is a lot of meat in this program.   Also, as a lot of different topics are covered, it is more likely than not that an issue you are working on now in one of your cases will be discussed by one of the panelists.   Crucially, this is not a program where we review as many tentative opinions as possible.  We cover a limited number of tentative opinions per judge so that you can listen to a somewhat in depth analysis.

The panelists are well experienced.  Nicholas Gebelt heads up the panel.  Robert Aronson and Sloan Youkstetter fill out the panel.  They have been researching and finding a lot of good tentative opinions. Read more…