On June 2, 2008, the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum hosted a fast paced dinner program with:
Hon. Sheri Bluebond
Hon. Samuel Bufford
Hon. Victoria Kaufman
Hon. Robert Kwan
Hon. Geraldine Mund
Hon. Kathleen Thompson
Hon. Maureen Tighe
The topic for the dinner program was "What the judges only wish we knew." The program was very well attended.
This was the last program of the 2007-2008 "school year." Good job, David Meadows (program chair)!
On March 10, 2008, the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum hosted the annual Joe Bernfeld dinner program. (Joe was a founder of the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum, a scholar of the law, and a colorful trial lawyer.) This year, our dinner program featured an evening with the witty Professor Erwin Chemerinsky (Alston & Bird Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Duke Law, and Founding Dean of the Donald Bren School of Law at the University of California, Irvine). Professor Erwin Chemerinsky spoke about the new law school and "The Battle Between Debtors’ Rights and Creditors’ Remedies in American Bankruptcy Law; Hey! It’s in the Constitution!"
The Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum dinner program on February 11, 2008 was fun. The panel included Judge Mitchel Goldberg, Judge Sheri Bluebond, Cynthia Cohen, and David Poitras. The program covered: the overlap between 11 U.S.C. sections 363 and 365; and the recent “landlord cap” decision from the Court of Appeals. El Toro petition materials are available here. (Hey, we are just kidding about the headlock.)
The LOS ANGELES BANKRUPTCY FORUM, THE FINANCIAL LAWYERS CONFERENCE, THE TURNAROUND MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION, and the CALIFORNIA RECEIVERS FORUM held a bankruptcy professionals' holiday reception in downtown Los Angeles to support the efforts of Public Counsel, Neighborhood Legal Services, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, and others who contribute to those in need of bankruptcy-related services in our community. Everyone had a jolly good time.
The October 22 dinner program was entitled "Optimal Strategies to Defend and Insulate Preferential Transfers from Avoidance." This was a back to basics program on the practical aspects of developing and presenting the preference action defenses, principally ordinary course and new value. The program also discussed pre-bankruptcy planning to insulate clients from preference exposure. Our speakers were Greg Abrams, J. Scott Bovitz, and Aram Ordubegian. Abrams showed us a few of his secret charts, Ordubegian gave us his strategy for defending preference claims, and Bovitz walked around a lot.
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