Abi Podcast

ABI Executive Director Amy Quackenboss talks with Prof. Susan E. Hauser of North Carolina Central University School of Law (Durham, N.C.) and attorney Daniel A. Austin (Cranberry Township, Pa.), authors of the recently released Graduating with Debt: Student Loans under the Bankruptcy Code, 2nd Edition. Hauser and Austin, authors of the original edition of Graduating with Debt, provide insights into the new edition and their perspectives on new case law, litigation issues and legislation centered on student loans and bankruptcy.

ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano talks with Prof. Robert M. Lawless of the University of Illinois College of Law, a co-author of the 2012 study titled "Surrounding Race, Attorney Influence and Bankruptcy Chapter Choice," about the findings of racially disparate uses of chapter 13 bankruptcy. Lawless presented an update of the study's findings in October at the 2016 National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Annual Meeting, revealing that race continues to be a factor in the chapter choice for debtors, sometimes to their financial detriment, in certain parts of the country.

ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle and Una O'Boyle, Clerk of the Court for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, talk about the changes to the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure that are scheduled to take effect on December 1.

Trump's Casino Experience Demonstrates Job and Revenue Losses, According to Legal Scholar - Ep. 192 by ABI

ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle talks with Prof. Lois Lupica of the University of Maine School of Law and former ABI Resident Scholar about artificial intelligence (AI) in the practice of law. As IBM's "ROSS," the first AI attorney, was hired earlier this year, Lupica discusses the potential ways that AI will change the way that bankruptcy practitioners do business, including document discovery, case predictive software and more.

ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano talks with John E. Mudd, an attorney and respected legal commentator in Puerto Rico, who has closely followed the territory's debt crisis. He provides insight on the Financial Control Board created by the “Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act” (PROMESA).

Recorded on 7/28/2016 Mediation Issues

ABI Deputy Executive Director Amy Quackenboss talks with Mark Stingley and Michelle Masoner of Brian Cave LLP (Kansas City, Mo.), both authors on ABI's newest publication, How Secure Are You? Secured Creditors in Commercial and Consumer Bankruptcies. The book was written by members of ABI's Secured Credit Committee to provide practitioners with in-depth analysis of the most common concerns in secured claim disputes, including citation to important case law. Stingley and Masoner, both members of the committee, discuss the book and how it is an indispensable guide for anyone whose work involves secured creditor claims.

The latest American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) podcast features ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle talking with Prof. Stephen Lubben of Seton Hall University School of Law about the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denying General Motors from escaping liability for ignition-switch defects that came to light after its 363 sale, which have since generated nationwide litigation. Prof. Lubben has been following the case and has written extensively on GM’s bankruptcy on both Credit Slips and the New York Times DealBook blog.

ABI Spring 2016 Resident Scholar Melissa Jacoby discusses the Corinthian chapter 11 case with Scott F. Gautier of Robins Kaplan LLP in Los Angeles and Christopher A. Ward of Polsinelli in Wilmington, Del. Both were counsel for a committee of former students of what was once one of the largest for-profit post-secondary educational companies in the U.S. and Canada. The case involves the unusual step of seeking to have the outstanding student loan debt of up to 500,000 former students forgiven.

Former ABI Resident Scholar Melissa Jacoby talks with Prof. Angela K. Littwin of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law about Littwin's research about the relationship between consumer credit and domestic violence. Littwin interviewed domestic violence victims about coerced debt, which occurs when the abuser in a violent relationship obtains credit in the victim's name via fraud or coercion.

ABI Resident Scholar Prof. Melissa Jacoby talks with Michael H. Reed, Special Counsel to Pepper Hamilton LLP (Philadelphia, Pa.). An author of a number of articles on successor liability and a contributor to ABI's forthcoming title examining environmental issues in bankruptcy, Reed discusses important issues and trends related to successor liability in chapter 11

Commercial Fraud Committee call on 5-25-2016

ABI Podacst 187 for review by ABI

Abi Podcast 186 - for review by ABI

Mediation and Bankruptcy Litigation Committee

ABI Resident Scholar Prof. Melissa Jacoby talks with Prof. Juliet Moringiello of Widener University Commonwealth Law School about the intersection of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and retail bankruptcies. Moringiello, a former ABI Resident Scholar, provides her perspective on recent retail bankruptcy issues, including consignment arrangements in the Sports Authority case.

ABI Resident Scholar Melissa Jacoby talks with Mark E. Felger of Cozen O’Connor (Wilmington, Del.) and Paul Hage of Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss (Southfield, Mich.) about the challenges that professionals face when representing creditors’ committees. Felger and Hage are co-authors of ABI’s Representing the Creditors' Committee: A Guide for Practitioners, available for purchase in ABI’s Bookstore.

Bankruptcy and the Takings Clause – Implications for Puerto Rico - Episode 181 by ABI

Unsecured Trade Creditors Committee Gifting in 363 Sales by ABI