ABI Podcast

Examining the Intersection of Tribal Sovereignty and Bankruptcy - Ep. 229 by ABI

New SIPC CEO Discussing Recovery Efforts in Madoff Case - Ep. 228 by ABI

Highlighting Women's History Month with ABI Presidents - ep. 227 by ABI

Elaborating on their ABI Journal article "Too Broke for a Fresh Start" about chapter 7 being too expensive for those in need, Bankruptcy Judge Henry Callaway (S.D. Ala.; Mobile) and Jonathan Petts of Upsolve (New York) talk with former ABI Resident Scholar Prof. Drew Dawson of the University of Miami School of Law about why chapter 7 is less accessible to those in need. They also discuss potential...

ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano talks with Jay Bender of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (Birmingham, Ala.), Kristina M. Stanger of Nyemaster Goode, P.C. (Des Moines, Iowa) and John H. Thompson of McGuireWoods LLP (Washington, D.C.) about proposals to equalize the means test treatment for veterans who seek chapter 7 relief. Bender, Stanger and Thompson, who are part of the legislative committe...

ABI Deputy Executive Director Amy Quackenboss talks with authors Lisa Bittle Tancredi of Gebhardt & Smith LLP (Baltimore) and Mark A. Gittelman of PNC Bank (Philadelphia) about their new book Navigating Banking in Bankruptcy: A Guidebook. Tancredi and Gittelman provide an overview of the topics covered in the book, which offers practical guidance to bankers, company financial officers and lega...

ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano talks with David Fisher of Integra Ledger (Denver) and Laura Jehl of BakerHostetler (Washington, D.C.). Both Fisher and Jehl will be speaking at ABI's Winter Leadership Conference on panel sessions examining blockchain, cybersecurity and litigating new financial industry issues in bankruptcy. Listen to their podcast discussion of opportunities and challenges in e...

ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano talks with Suzanne A. Koenig of SAK Management Services LLC (Riverwoods, Ill.) and Nancy A. Peterman of Greenberg Traurig, LLP (Chicago) about health care distress and a special ABI program in January focused on the topic. Koenig and Peterman are both chairs of ABI's “Disruption, Consolidation and Innovation in the Health Care Industry” Program taking place Janua...

ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano talks with Prof. Michael D. Sousa of the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law about his recent analytical look at the stigma of bankruptcy. Sousa published the lead article in the Summer 2018 edition of the ABI Law Review, “The Persistence of Bankruptcy Stigma,” which presented his findings that the stigma surrounding personal bankruptcy has actually incre...

Landlord/Tenant Issues in Retail Bankruptcy - Ep. 220 by ABI

ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle talks with Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan (D. N.J.; Trenton) and ABI President-Elect Alane Becket of Becket and Lee (Malvern, Pa.) to examine the Supreme Court's opinion in Lamar, Archer & Cofrin, LLP v. Appling (16-1215). The Supreme Court on June 4 resolved a split of circuits by holding that a false statement about one asset must be in writing to provide g...

ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano talks with ABI President Ted Gavin of Gavin/Solmonese LLC (Wilmington, Del.) and John Ames of Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP (Louisville, Ky.), a former ABI President), about ABI's new Veterans' Affairs Task Force. Gavin announced the formation of the Task Force in his speech when he became ABI President at the 2018 Annual Spring Meeting in April. Providing more det...

ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano talks with Prof. Andrew Wolfe of American University's School of International Service about Puerto Rico's latest fiscal developments. Wolfe is currently an advisor to the government of Puerto Rico since retiring in June 2014 from the International Monetary Fund after 27 years, where he was a senior manager of the Western Hemisphere Department. Wolfe, co-author o...

Recorded at Valcon 2018

ABI Journal Associate Editor Scott K. Brown of Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP (Phoenix) and J. Scott Bovitz of Bovitz & Spitzer (Los Angeles), the lead contributors to the "Chapter 8 Humor" column in the Journal, discuss the lighter side of bankruptcy and share their amusing insights on the history of and outlook for the column, which originated from a family Christmas card.

Experts Preview Panel on Navigating Liability Claims in Cross-Border Cases - Ep. 215 by ABI

Former ABI Resident Scholar Prof. Drew Dawson of the University of Miami School of Law talks with Ken Epstein, an investment manager and legal counsel at Bentham IMF (New York). Epstein, who will join a panel at the ABI Spring Meeting on the latest uses of litigation finance, talks about some of the effective ways litigation finance can be used in bankruptcy.

The Supreme Court on March 5 ruled in U.S. Bank National Association v. Village at Lakeridge (15-1509) that the Ninth Circuit was right to review the Bankruptcy Court’s determination for clear error (rather than de novo). ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle talks with former ABI Resident Scholars Prof. Charles Tabb of the University of Illinois College of Law and Prof. Drew Dawson of the University...

The Supreme Court on Feb. 27 ruled in Merit Management Group, LP v. FTI Consulting, Inc. (16-784) that the only relevant transfer for purposes of the §546(e) safe harbor is the transfer that the trustee seeks to avoid. ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle talks with Prof. Bruce Markell of the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Prof. Ralph Brubaker of the University of Illinois College of Law abo...

ABI Deputy Executive Director Amy Quackenboss talks with David Cox of Cox Law Group (Lynchburg, Va.) and Elizabeth Gunn of the Office of the Virginia Attorney General (Richmond, Va.) about their new publication, Consumer Bankruptcy: Fundamentals of Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, Fourth Edition. Cox practices bankruptcy law throughout the Western District of Virginia. Gunn wo...

As wild fluctuations in cryptocurrency value invites a potential surge in bitcoin-related bankruptcies, a guest on ABI's latest podcast examines how to approach cryptocurrency in fraudulent-transfer litigation. ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano talks with Alan Rosenberg of Markowitz, Ringel, Trusty + Hartog, PA (Miami), author of the February ABI Journal article "The Cryptocurrency Craze: How to...

ABI Deputy Executive Director Amy Quackenboss talks with Christopher A. Ward of Polsinelli (Wilmington, Del.) and Ryan G. Foley of Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP (Philadelphia) about their new publication, Business Creditor's Guide to Distressed Vendors, Debt Collection and Bankruptcy. Ward, a member of ABI's Board of Directors, and Foley, a member of ABI's inaugural "40 Under 40" class, teamed up t...

ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano speaks with Joseph A. Peiffer of Ag & Business Legal Solutions (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) about a chapter 12 amendment that was enacted into law at the end of October. While incorporated into legislation that dealt with disaster aid and extending bankruptcy judgeships, the amendment clarifies a rule allowing discharge to governmental claims arising from the disposi...

As retail bankruptcy filings continue to climb in 2017, ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano speaks with Amir Agam of FTI Consulting (Los Angeles) and Bradford J. Sandler of Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones (Wilmington, Del.) about the reasons behind the ongoing retail downturn.

ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano talks with Prof. Robert Lawless, the Reporter for the ABI Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy. Lawless, the Max L. Rowe Professor of Law and co-director of the Program on Law, Behavior & Social Science at the University of Illinois College of Law, provides a recap of Commission activity to date and previews future work by the Commission, including public meetin...