What You Will Learn:

 

*Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Basics

*Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Basics

*Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Basics

*Matters Governed by Chapter 9

*Matters Governed by Chapter 12

*Matters Governed by Chapter 15

*Liens

*Security Interests

*Which debts can be discharged and which cannot

*What “avoidance” is and what it means, in practical terms, to creditors

*The automatic stay in bankruptcy

*Making claims – process and procedure

 

Who Should Attend:

 

*Bankruptcy Attorneys

*Business Law Attorneys

*In-house Counsel

*Anyone Who Needs Expert Advice and Guidance on these Important Issues!

 

 

The economic hard times our country and the world are currently suffering have focused attention on the need for education in the area of bankruptcy law.  Non-bankruptcy specialists, and those new to a bankruptcy practice, need an excellent “survey” of bankruptcy law to understand the players, the playing field, and the plays that are called in this complex and very important game where the stakes are high. 

 

Unfortunately, most bankruptcy CLE programs are taught from the perspective of the debtor rather than the debtor's creditors, leaving the program attendee with only half of the information needed to really understand the process and strategy involved. CBA-CLE to the rescue!  Join our experienced faculty in this full day of immersion in the world of bankruptcy law.  Our expert faculty, who hail from both the debtor and creditor bars, will show you what the process is like, from start to finish, with an emphasis on the issues that are most important to a creditor.  You will learn the fundamentals of each type of bankruptcy, how debts are discharged, avoidance actions, stays, and more!

 

In these challenging economic times, virtually all licensed attorneys need to understand the bankruptcy process. If you want to understand that process, with equal time given to the creditor's viewpoint, this is the program for you!

 

Register for Bankruptcy Basics from the Creditor's Perspective Today!

 

 

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

 

9:00 AM – 9:05 AM

Extended by Charles G. Crosse, IV, Esq.

 

9:05 AM – 10:00 AM

 

 

- Challenging Who Can Be a Debtor Under Chapter 7

- What Notice is and How it is Issued

- The Debtor's Schedules Explained

- First Meeting of the Creditors – Attendance

- What is “Reaffirmation”?

- Objecting to Claimed Exemptions

- The Chapter 7 Trustee:  Duties and Authority

 

- Challenging who can be a debtor under Chapter 13

- All about the co­debtor stay

- The first meeting of creditors in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy case

- Objecting to Confirmation of a Chapter 13 Plan

- The Chapter 13 Trustee:  Duties and Authority

- How Creditors are Paid in a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy

- Motions to Dismiss a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy

- Motions to Convert a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy to a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

 

 

10:00 AM to 10:15 AM

 

10:15 AM – 11:00 AM

 

- Section 727 Objections to discharge of debts

- Section 523 Objections to discharge of certain kinds of debts

- What sorts of obligations cannot be discharged?

- What is the effect of discharge of a debt?

- What is a “Discharge Injunction”?

- Violations of a Discharge Injunction

- When and how a discharge can be revoked

 

 

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

 

- What is “adequate protection”?

- The uses of cash collateral

- About the Creditors' Committee

- Rejection or Assumption of executory contracts and leases

- Fees for the Over-secured Creditor

- Challenging the Chapter 11 Disclosure Statement

- Understanding Creditor's Committee Role

- Objecting to Confirmation of a Chapter 11 Plan

 

 

12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

 

1:15 PM – 2:00 PM

 

- What is an avoidance action?

- The types of avoidance actions in a bankruptcy case

- A “preference” claim in a bankruptcy case

- What are the defenses to a preference claim?

- Defenses to ”Fraudulent Transfer” Claims

- Can relief be obtained against someone to which an asset has already been transferred?  If so, how and when?

 

 

2:00 PM – 2:45 PM

 

- The Automatic Stay defined

- Litigating the Automatic Stay

- Grounds for relief from the Automatic Stay

- In Rem Orders for Relief From Stay

- And More!

 

 

2:45 PM – 3:00 PM

 

3:00 PM – 3:15 PM

 

- Requirements for your “Proof of Claim”

- Objections to claims

- Amending a Proof of Claim

 

 

3:15 PM – 4:00 PM

 

- Chapter 15 and Foreign Proceedings

- Chapter 9 and Municipalities as debtors

- Chapter 12 - Special provisions for family farmers

 

 

4:00 PM – 4:50 PM

 

- Using perfection of a security interest as a preference

- Pre­judgment attachment liens

- Avoidance of a lien

- All about set-off

- Reclamation under BAPCPA

 

 

4:50 PM – 5:00 PM

 

5:00 PM

 

 

Block Markus & Williams, LLC

Denver, CO

 

Kutner Miller Brinen, PC

Denver, CO

 

Crosse & Barfield, LLC

Denver, CO

 

Edwards & Taylor LLC

Aurora, CO

Kuttner Miller Brinen, PC

Denver, CO

 

George T. Carlson & Associates

Englewood, CO

 

 

Block Markus & Williams, LLC

Denver, CO

 

Kutner Miller Brinen, PC

Denver, CO

 

Crosse & Barfield, LLC

Denver, CO

 

 

Denver: CLE Classroom, 1900 Grant Street, Suite 300

Grand Junction: 1250 East Sherwood Drive

Colorado Springs: 421 South Tejon Street, Suite 100