Product Description

MCLE’s flagship 18th Annual New England Bankruptcy Law Conference features a Judicial Panel of six bankruptcy judges from the Districts of Massachusetts and Maine, as well as leading practitioners analyzing the latest developments and trends affecting both business and consumer bankruptcy practice. Hear the judges address a number of recent developments in bankruptcy law and practice around the country. The four breakout sessions further enrich the conversation, featuring a range of important topics, including: challenging mortgages in bankruptcy, retail bankruptcies, pre-bankruptcy planning, and the intersection of the Bankruptcy Code and the UCC. Customize the Conference to fit your interests by choosing the sessions that fit your needs and practice. Get valuable perspective that only experience—and the Conference—can provide. Your time is valuable; let MCLE’s distinguished panelists quickly bring you up to speed.

Agenda & Materials

• 1:00 – 1:05 P.M.

  Welcome and Introduction

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  Paul W. Carey, Esq., Mirick, O'Connell, DeMallie & Lougee LLP , Worcester
  Jennifer V. Doran, Esq., Hinckley Allen LLP , Boston
  Michael J. Goldberg, Esq., Casner & Edwards LLP , Boston
  Donald R. Lassman, Esq., Law Office of Donald R. Lassman , Needham
  
• 1:05 - 2:35 P.M.

  Breakout Session I (choose one)
• CONSUMER: Mortgage Avoidance Update (webcast)

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  Explore the current state of Massachusetts law on challenges by trustees and debtors to mortgages recorded with defective certificates of acknowledgment. Hear the panel discuss the trustee’s avoidance powers, defenses to avoidance, and how to address the resulting title issues.

  Christine E. Devine, Esq., , Medway
  Taruna Garg, Esq., Murtha Cullina LLP , Stamford
  Marques C. Lipton, Esq., Lipton Law Group LLC , Framingham
  
• BUSINESS: Retail Bankruptcies

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  Retail bankruptcies are up, with Sports Authority, Aeropostale, Pacific Sun, and other retailers having filed in 2016 alone. Explore key issues facing multiple constituents in a retailer’s Chapter 11, including an often expedited sale process, store closing sales, treatment of leases, and the impact of debtor-in-possession financing on various constituencies.

  Michael D. Chartock, Esq., Gordon Brothers Group , Boston
  Andrew G. Lizotte, Esq., Murphy & King, PC , Boston
  Vanessa P. Moody, Esq., Goulston & Storrs, PC , Boston
  Donald E. Rothman, Esq., Riemer & Braunstein LLP , Boston
  
• 2:35 – 2:45 P.M.

  Networking and Refreshment Break
• 2:45 – 4:15 P.M.

  JUDICIAL PANEL: Cutting-Edge Issues Viewed from the Bench

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  Hon. Frank J. Bailey, U.S. Bankruptcy Court , Boston
  Hon. Peter G. Cary, U.S. Bankruptcy Court , Portland
  Hon. Michael A. Fagone, U.S. Bankruptcy Court , Bangor
  Hon. Joan N. Feeney, Superior Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Ret.); JAMS , Boston
  Hon. Melvin S. Hoffman, U.S. Bankruptcy Court , Boston
  Hon. Christopher J. Panos, U.S. Bankruptcy Court , Worcester
  
• 4:15 – 4:30 P.M.

  Networking and Refreshment Break
• 4:30 – 6:00 P.M.

  Breakout Session II (choose one)
• CONSUMER: Pre-Bankruptcy Planning—Best Practices and Traps (webcast)

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  Explore the benefits and dangers of pre-bankruptcy exemption planning, including the homestead and other exemptions, converting assets into exempt assets, and the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in Husky International Electronics, Inc. v. Ritz.

  David B. Madoff, Esq., Madoff & Khoury LLP , Foxborough
  Andrea M. O'Connor, Esq.,
  Nathan R. Soucy, Esq., Soucy Law Office , Lowell
  
• BUSINESS: When Codes Collide—The UCC, and Other Statutes, Meet the Bankruptcy Code

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  Explore the intersection of the Bankruptcy Code with other statutory schemes governing commercial relationships, and how they impact security interests and other liens, consignment rights, reclamation, and other interests when one party files for bankruptcy protection.

  Marc R. Leduc, Esq., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP , Boston
  Francis C. Morrissey, Esq., Morrissey, Wilson & Zafiropoulos, LLP , Braintree
  Paul J. Ricotta, Esq.,
  
• 6:00 – 6:30 P.M.

  Networking Reception for Faculty & Registrants

Cochairs

Faculty