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ABI PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS FOR 2008-09

June 19, 2008, Alexandria, Va. — American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) President John W. Ames of Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald PLLC (Louisville, Ky.) announced that the following ABI members would serve as co-chairs of ABI member committees for 2008-09. ABI has 25 active committees that focus on specific projects and issues important to all areas of bankruptcy. Committee co-chairs play an important role in working with committee members on these projects, such as planning educational programs for ABI's popular conferences, authoring committee e-newsletters on relevant topics and sharing ideas on committee listserves. Many committees have produced valuable publications on a variety of topics such as consumer bankruptcy, preferences, creditors' committees and first-day motions.
 
The following ABI members will serve as co-chairs for the following committees in 2008-09:
 
Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee: Bankruptcy Judge Barbara J. Houser (N.D. Texas; Dallas) and Judy D. Thompson of Poyner & Spruill LLP (Charlotte, N.C.)
 
Asset Sales Committee: Weston Anson of CONSOR Intellectual Asset Management (La Jolla; Calif.) and Gary S. Jacobson of Herold and Haines, PA (Warren, N.J.)
 
Bankruptcy Litigation Committee: Mark M. Maloney of King & Spalding LLP (Atlanta) and Irving E. Walker of Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard, PA (Baltimore)
 
Bankruptcy Taxation Committee: David Howard Stein of Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, PC (Woodbridge, N.J.) and John Tittle, Jr. of NachmanHaysBrownstein, Inc. (Dallas)
 
Business Reorganization Committee: Deborah A. Crabbe of Foster Pepper PLLC (Seattle), Leonard Klingbaum of Kirkland & Ellis LLP (New York) and Bradley D. Sharp of Development Specialists, Inc. (Los Angeles)
 
Commercial Fraud Task Force: Francis A. Monaco, Jr. of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC (Wilmington, Del.) and Sheryl L. Toby of Dykema Gossett PLLC (Detroit)
 
Consumer Bankruptcy Committee: Dennis J. LeVine of Dennis LeVine & Associates, PA (Tampa), Bankruptcy Judge C. Ray Mullins (N.D. Ga.; Atlanta) and John Rao of the National Consumer Law Center (Boston)
 
Court Administration Committee: David D. Bird of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, for the District of Delaware (Wilmington) and Kelly Beaudin Stapleton (Malvern, Pa.)
 
Employee Benefits in Bankruptcy Committee: Carol Connor Cohen of Arent Fox LLP (Washington, D.C.), Jeffrey B. Cohen of Ivins, Phillips & Barker (Washington, D.C.) and Charles M. Dyke of Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP (San Francisco)
 
Ethics Committee: Terri L. Gardner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP (Raleigh, N.C.) and Judith Greenstone Miller of Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss, PC (Southfield, Mich.)
 
Finance and Banking Committee: Jeff J. Marwil of Winston & Strawn LLP (Chicago) and Suzanne S. Yoon of CIT (Chicago)
 
Financial Advisors Committee: Stephen S. Gray of CRG Partners (Boston) and Gerald A. Shapiro of CRG Partners Group LLC (Wilton, Conn.)
 
Health Care Committee: Leslie Ann Berkoff of Moritt Hock Hamroff & Horowitz LLP (Garden City, N.Y.) and Suzanne Koenig of SAK Management Services, LLC (Chicago)
 
International Committee: Luis Salazar of Greenberg Traurig, LLP (Miami), Sandy Shandro of the University College (London) and Ronald J. Silverman of Bingham McCutchen LLP (New York)
 
Investment Banking Committee: Lorie R. Beers of KPMG Corporate Finance LLC (New York) and J. Scott Victor of National City Capital Markets (West Conshohocken, Pa.)
 
Law School Committee: Prof. Nancy B. Rapoport of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (Las Vegas) and Prof. G. Ray Warner of St. John's University and Of Counsel Greenberg Traurig, LLP (Jamaica, N.Y.)
 
Legislation Committee: Bankruptcy Judges Jeffery P. Hopkins (S.D. Ohio; Cincinnati) and David W. Houston, III (N.D. Miss.; Aberdeen)
 
Mass Torts Committee: Adam Paul of Kirkland & Ellis LLP (Chicago) and David B. Wheeler of Moore & Van Allen, PLLC (Charleston, S.C.)
 
Professional Compensation Committee: T. Edward Malpass of the Law Offices of T. Edward Malpass (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Thomas A. Morrow of AlixPartners LLP (Southfield, Mich.)           
 
Public Companies and Claims Trading Committee: H. Slayton Dabney, Jr. of King & Spalding LLP (New York) and Andrea J. Pincus of Reed Smith LLP (New York)
 
Real Estate Committee: Berry D. Spears of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP (Austin, Texas) and John F. Young of Block, Markus & Williams, LLC (Denver)           
 
Technology and Telecommunication Cases Committee: H. Jason Gold of Wiley Rein LLP (McLean, Va.) and William K. Snyder of CRG Partners (Dallas)
 
Uniform Commercial Code Committee: Gary A. Norton of Whitfield & Eddy, PLC (Des Moines, Iowa) and Romaine S. Scott III of Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC (Birmingham, Ala.)
 
Unsecured Trade Creditors Committee: Ronald E. Gold of Frost Brown Todd LLC (Cincinnati), Jean R. Robertson of Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP (Cleveland) and Val Venable of SABIC Innovative Plastics (Huntersville, N.C.)
 
Young and New Members Committee: Douglas E. Deutsch of Chadbourne & Parke, LLP (New York) and Kathryn Pamenter of Goldberg Kohn Bell Black Rosenbloom & Moritz, Ltd. (Chicago)
 
You may find additional information and resources regarding ABI’s member committees at http://committees.abiworld.org/.
 

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