Dear All:
We try real hard to have practical programs where you can walk out the door with nuggets and gems to use in your practices. We leave the ivory tower stuff (and the high admission fees) to the bankruptcy groups on the Westside and downtown. Read more…
Email from Jeff Hagen (By the way, if I can get out there, you can)
To Everyone:
I’ll bet you hoped that I lost your e-mail address, huh?
The EIGHTH Annual Earle Hagen Memorial Golf, Tennis And Poker Tournament is coming on Monday September 19, 2016…at the Porter Valley Country Club in Northridge. It’s less than FOUR months away!
Is it too early to sign up? Absolutely NOT! We’re accepting registration now! A registration brochure will be attached to our next blast. Why wait? Sign up now! Don’t put it off. Nothing better is going to come along, especially on a Monday!
Please check out the following link: https://ehmgt.eventbrite.com Read more…
Hi everyone,
Public Counsel’s DAP will be having a Chapter 13 bankruptcy program titled “Crafting a Chapter 13 plan” on Wed. July 27 from 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. I have also attached a flyer for the event.
The program will be taking place from 10:00-2:00 and will include lunch. To register for the event please go to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/c13plan Read more…
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I had a good time at the annual NACBA meeting last weekend in San Fran. I did a program on individual chapter 11 cases with Judge Laurel Davis from Las Vegas and bankruptcy pundit Wayne Silver from San Jose. We decided to let the audience, which was quite substantial, ask questions and I definitely learned a few things.
One big lesson was about whether plans must be five years, in other words, whether the individual must pay his net disposable income into the plan for five years. It sure seems to say that in Section 1129(a)(15). I know that it is required only “when a creditor objects,” but I sort of assumed that less that five years would bring an objection so it should be presumed to be five years. There was a question about whether a “no” vote on the plan by an unsecured creditor is an “objection” but we obviously did not resolve that. Read more…
Dear All:
The next Bankruptcy Section program on May 20th at lunch is a rare combination of fun and learning. We did this program last year. People learned a lot and people laughed a lot as well.
This program is the flawed chapter 13 plan. Teams of attorneys have been working for months on putting together a new plan which has subtle flaws and obvious flaws…. a lot of flaws. We break the attending attorneys up into small groups and each group works as a team to find and to list as many mistakes as possible. After perhaps 20 to 30 minutes of group work, we reconvene as a whole and see how many flaws the different groups have found.
Sometimes groups find new undiscovered flaws. It is in fun. It is educational. You get MCLE for this! Read more…
I have signed up for this program. Michael O’Halloran is a great speaker and worth listening to. The registration link is here.
This program will highlight the differences between the new national bankruptcy forms applicable as of December 1, 2015 and those that had been in use for the past 20 years. There are many new questions that ask for information that was not expressly called for previously. Creditors and trustees will learn new facts and should have a more complete view of the debtor, her life and previous personal and financial activity. Speaker: Michael O’Halloran
I had the huge privilege of attending the Central District Judicial Conference annual meeting in Ojai last weekend. I took a bunch of notes and have some interesting stuff to write about. I will put it all into a couple of blog posts over the next few days.
The first program was called “Panel Discussion: Top Supreme Court Cases to Watch” featuring Deanell Tacha, Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean and Professor of Law at Pepperdine Law School, and Professors Robert J. Pushaw and Barry P. McDonald – all three obvious constitutional pros with the ability to talk constitutional law talk in plain English. The cases they discussed will be a separate blog. Read more…
email from Maggie Bourdeaux,
Hi,
We would greatly appreciate your help in spreading the word about Law Week at the L.A. Law Library.
DAP will be doing a bankruptcy basics overview on Thurs., 4/28 at 12:00. However, there are many interesting programs in different areas of law–including landlord tenant law, criminal law, immigration law, and probate law. You can find more information about Law Week and how to register at:
This is a great opportunity for you and/or your staff to learn about a new area of law and all the programs are FREE.
Thank you!
Maggie
Program Title:
The Creditors Committee: Ethical Traps for the Unwary and the Not So Unwary!
Presented By:
Commercial Law & Bankruptcy Section Read more…
