Join us for the first meeting of the 2017-2018 Year of The James T. King Bankruptcy Inn of Court
Our meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 6:00 p.m.
Your hosts for the evening will be: Anthony Friedman, our President and the Honorable Neil Bason, our Program Moderator
We will be meeting at Taix French Restaurant located at:
1911 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Pupillage Team 1 will be presenting this evening Read more…
Panelists:
Honorable Alex Kozinski, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal
Professor Ronald Collins, University of Washington School of Law
Professor David Skover , Seattle University School of Law Read more…
Email from Steve Fox:
The Bankruptcy Section of the SFVBA is presenting this Friday its annual program looking at tentative opinions, the writings, of the Woodland Hills judges. This is the annual meeting where our panel really analyzes the judge’s writings and offers insights into the judges, what they are concerned about, what their processes are, why they ruled the way they ruled.
I want to point out one area that the panel will focus on, a really nifty tentative opinion about awarding attorneys’ fees to the prevailing party, a debtor. The debtor clearly believed it had a great argument but the court pushed back quite a bit as it (the court) really analyzed the problems with the Debtor’s arguments. Read more…
ANNUAL SUPREME COURT REVIEW
October 5, 2017 – 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (Registration at 11:30 a.m.)
Location: The Biltmore Hotel (506 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA Parking $22.00 Valet)
United States Supreme Court Review
Featuring Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Also Featuring Judge Barry Russell Federal Practice Award
The Honorable Barry Russell
Bankruptcy Judge, Central District of California
Email from Steve Fox
Dear All:
This is the monthly message I send to you.
The SFVBA Bankruptcy Section monthly meeting will be this Friday. The topic is a good one, one that we have gone back to repeatedly over the years because of many requests that we update and repeat the program. Each time, the panel of trustees and trustee attorneys look at the recent issues. One issue will look at trustee efforts to go after the homestead exemption following the sale of the homestead. Another will look at the goings on in a chapter 7 case where the trustee sold the family residence to a third party, the various issues which arose and how the parties and the court dealt with the issues. In that case, the IRS asserted that its penalty claim against the debtors had to satisfied from the Debtor’s homestead monies. This particular case had its share of drama too. Read more…
The California Bankruptcy Forum was kind to permit me to audit the Insolvency Conference this weekend on Coronado Island. As a member of the State Bar Bankruptcy Specialist Commission, I am permitted to audit programs. About a third of the Central District Bankruptcy Judges were there I would guess and several judges from other districts in California. The value of sitting at tables and around the chairs in the lobby with the judges you appear in front of every day cannot be overstated. The programs were great. I highly recommend it. Next year the meeting will be somewhere around Lake Tahoe.
Especially fun was the Brutzkus Gubner clambake at the Hotel Del Coronado on Friday night. A special thanks to Steve Gubner for that.
Join United States Bankruptcy Judge Ernest M. Robles and moderator J. Scott Bovitz as they discuss Judge Robles’ pet peeves, reveal the best way to handle the most common motions/trials in Judge Robles’ court, and make suggestions for improving practice in consumer and business cases.
Speakers:
Hon. Ernest M. Robles, United States Bankruptcy Court
J. Scott Bovitz, Bovitz & Spitzer
Email from Steve Fox
Dear All:
Usually we focus on one theme for an hour to an hour and one half. Our May program panel goes the other way. Read more…
I went to the presentation that Scott Bovitz and Judge Russell gave last year at the San Fernando Valley Bat Assoc. and it was amazing — Steve Fox sent out the following info re their program this year:
We try each year to have Judge Barry Russell and J. Scott Bovitz speak about Section 523(a) issues of interest. They are an entertaining and informative pair. They educate; they delight; they teach and we learn. Here is a summary of material of what this duo will discuss:
• Tips for litigating fraud cases under 11 U.S.C. §523(a)(2)(A)” will be of interest to both debtors and creditors. Read more…
We had a pretty big crowd again at the 9th Circuit Review last Saturday at Southwestern Law School. The classroom on the third floor was definitely full. Judge Zurzolo and Judge Taylor were great.
We set up the program for video conferencing. I say “we,” but Peter Lively did the work. We had 8 or 9 people attend the program by video conference and the feedback was pretty good. It wasn’t perfect but it will be a little more perfect on February 11. I think I’m going to try it myself. If you sign up and connect, you can sit at your computer at home or in the office and watch and listen to the speakers – live. There is a Zoom app for smart-phones and tablets, so viewing can be from anywhere.
To attend the programs by video conferencing you just need to get a free account at Zoom.us. Then you send an email to Peter Lively at peter@petermlively.com. He will send you the materials for the program and the link the night before the program. You must be a member of the cdcbaa as always to attend but there is no further cost after that. The sign-in sheets and MCLE certificates are processed through emails with Linda after the program.
Give it a try.
