Alexandria, Va. — Detroit-area practitioners will have the opportunity to examine current issues affecting consumer bankruptcy debtors and creditors at the American Bankruptcy Institute’s (ABI) Hon. Steven W. Rhodes Consumer Bankruptcy Conference on Nov. 12 (Veteran’s Day) at the Somerset Inn in Troy, Mich. This one-day program tackles current issues such as bias, student loans and marijuana, while also offering skills-based sessions on appeals and financial literacy. Faculty members include experienced local chapter 7 and 13 consumer attorneys, bankruptcy judges and panel trustees from around Michigan. The judicial chair of the conference, cosponsored by the Consumer Bankruptcy Association of the Eastern District of Michigan, is Chief Bankruptcy Judge Phillip J. Shefferly (E.D. Mich.; Detroit) with co-chair Bankruptcy Mark A. Randon (E.D. Mich.; Detroit). The conference chair is consumer practitioner Michael P. Hogan of Schneiderman & Sherman, P.C. (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

Panel sessions include:

• Race and Bankruptcy
• Student Loans: An Overwhelming Problem in Need of Some Solutions
• Understanding Financial Information for Small Businesses
• Appealing Bankruptcy Decisions
• Credit Reporting and Bankruptcy
• East Meets West: Understanding Differences in Local Practice
• Prosecuting and Defending § 523 Adversary Proceedings
• Marijuana and Bankruptcy
• Nonbankruptcy Alternatives for Dealing with Consumer Debt
• Nobody Understands Me: How the Hybrid Role of a Chapter 13 Trustee Affects Debtors and Creditors
• Annual Case Law Update

For a full list of speakers at the Hon. Steven W. Rhodes Consumer Bankruptcy Conference, please click here.

If you are a member of the press and would like to attend ABI’s Hon. Steven W. Rhodes Consumer Bankruptcy Conference, please contact ABI Public Affairs Manager John Hartgen at 703-894-5935 or [email protected].

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ABI is the largest multi-disciplinary, nonpartisan organization dedicated to research and education on matters related to insolvency. ABI was founded in 1982 to provide Congress and the public with unbiased analysis of bankruptcy issues. The ABI membership includes nearly 12,000 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals, providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information. For additional information on ABI, visit www.abiworld.org. For additional conference information, visit http://www.abi.org/calendar-of-events.