Legislative Highlights Senate Leaders Take Different Legislative Paths to Curb ‘Judge-Shopping’ Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on April 10 each introduced legislation that wo…
Questions and Answers with USTP Director Tara Twomey By Tara Twomey T ara Twomey became director of the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees on Feb. 27, 2023. In this article, she answers some questions for the ABI Journal about her career in…
President’s Column After spending the past year shadowing our outgoing ABI President, Soneet R. Kapila of KapilaMukamal, LLP (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), I look forward to following in his footsteps as ABI President. His work with the Subchapte…
President’s Column As I write my final column, I am reflecting on what an ever-advancing organization ABI is. For more than four decades, ABI has been the force of the insolvency and restructuring industry. Under the leadership of each pres…
Legislative Highlights U.S. Judicial Conference Aims to Promote Random Case Assignment The Judicial Conference of the United States on March 12 proposed strengthening the policy governing random case assignment, limiting the ability of liti…
President’s Column The last 11 months have provided me with the best opportunity to truly appreciate what ABI offers that does not meet the eye at first blush. Following my installation as ABI President in April 2023, I undertook the “ABI A…
Legislative Highlights Senators, State AGs Submit Amicus Briefs Calling for Supreme Court to Reject Georgia-Pacific’s Bankruptcy Maneuver Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and fellow Senate Judiciary Committee colleag…
What’s Happening at ABI Become a Preliminary-Round Judge or Brief-Grader for the Duberstein National Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition! Fifty-three teams of law students from around the nation will compete in the 32nd Annual Duberstein Bank…
Legislative Highlights Supreme Court Appears Disinclined to Pay Refunds for Overpayment of U.S. Trustee Fees The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument on Jan. 9 1 in Office of the U.S. Trustee v. John Q. Hammons Fall 2006 LLC 2 to decide w…
Benchnotes By Bradley D. Pack, Aaron M. Kaufman and Christina Sanfelippo BAPCPA Did Not Abrogate Absolute-Priority Rule in Chapter 11 Cases Hon. Peter D. Russin of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida recently rule…