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LATEST ABI PODCAST EXAMINES MORTGAGE LIEN-STRIPPING CASES BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT

Former ABI Resident Scholar Prof. Lois Lupica is joined by Dennis Levine of Dennis LeVine & Associates, P.A. (Tampa) and Rich Thomson of Clark and Washington, P.C. (Atlanta) to discuss two cases recently granted certiorari by the Supreme Court (Bank of America v. Calukett and Bank of America v. Toledo-Cardona) involving mortgage lien-stripping in bankruptcy. Levine, who typically represents creditors, and Thomson, a debtors' lawyer, share their perspectives on arguments that may be raised before the Court for both cases. Click hereto listen.

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CFPB ISSUES REPORT ON STEPPING UP MILITARY FINANCIAL PROTECTIONS

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued a report highlighting how loopholes in the current Military Lending Act rules are racking up costs for servicemembers, NationalMortgageProfessional.com reported yesterday. According to the report, these gaps have allowed companies to offer high-cost loans to military families by skirting the 36 percent rate cap and other military-specific credit protections. The CFPB included these findings in a comment letter filed in support of the Department of Defense's proposal to broaden the scope of the Military Lending Act rules to cover deposit advance products, and more types of payday, auto title, and installment loans. In 2006, Congress passed the Military Lending Act to protect active-duty military personnel, active National Guard or Reserve personnel, and their dependents from predatory lending practices. In 2013, Congress amended the law by, among other things, giving the CFPB specific authority to enforce it. Read the full report.

RATES INCREASE ON FRIDAY!

CREDIT-DEFAULT SWAPS GET ACTIVIST NEW LOOK

Hedge-fund managers are putting a new twist on credit-default swaps, using the contracts to fortify bets on troubled companies, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. The swaps, which work like insurance policies when companies default on bonds and loans, fell out of favor after Wall Street's outsize bets on the swaps soured during the financial crisis. Now, investors are increasingly combining credit-default-swaps trades with elements of activist investing to push companies toward default in some cases and away in others. Swaps buyers pay sellers an upfront fee and a steady flow of premiums in exchange for a guaranteed payout from the seller if default occurs. Historically, the corporate credit-default-swaps market was dominated by bets on giant borrowers with billions of dollars of debt outstanding. But that use has declined, while swaps contracts on the debt of smaller companies in financial distress has surged. The average market capitalization of the five most actively traded nonfinancial companies in the credit-default-swaps market has been about $6 billion since March, according to data from Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. and S&P Capital IQ. That's down from $20 billion at the end of 2013 and well below the $16 billion average since July 2010, when DTCC began collecting the data. Read more.(Subscription required.)

INVESTORS STRUGGLE TO GET INTO SOME PRIVATE EQUITY FUNDS

Pension funds, endowments and wealthy individuals that invest with private equity are finding it increasingly hard to get into the most sought-after funds, according to data and industry participants, the Wall Street Journal reported today. Private-equity firms, which raise money from such investors and then put it to work in various investment strategies, are generally filling their coffers faster this year from clients. The proportion of private-equity funds that reached or exceeded the maximum amount the firms set out to raise this year is at its highest level since at least 2009, according to a snapshot of funds for which private-equity tracker Preqin has data. Typically, firms put a limit on the size of the fund they are raising, known as a hard cap, at the beginning of the fundraising process. That hard cap generally can't be exceeded without approval from fund investors. As of Nov. 13, 55 percent of roughly 280 funds for which Preqin had hard-cap data reached or surpassed that maximum size. Last year, 43 percent of funds hit or exceeded those limits. Also, private-equity firms have taken an average of 16.4 months to raise capital for funds that have closed this year, Preqin data show. That's two months shorter than the average time it took to raise funds that closed in 2013.Read more.(Subscription required.)

Additionally, some of the largest private-equity firms are giving up their claim to fees that generated hundreds of millions of dollars for them over the years in the face of pressure from investors and heightened scrutiny from federal regulators, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. The investment firms usually collect the fees from companies they buy for providing services such as consulting, serving as directors and helping them make their own acquisitions. Instead of keeping some of the money, the buyout firms, in new funds they are raising, will now pass the fees on in full to investors in the funds. The payouts being reimbursed, known in the industry as transaction and monitoring fees, have provided many private-equity firms with a steady income stream augmenting their share of investment gains on deals, which remain the key source of profits from their buyout funds. The decision by private-equity firms to essentially reimburse investors with payments that can amount to tens of millions of dollars or more, sometimes on just one transaction, shows the increased influence wielded by investors such as public pension funds that historically accepted terms buyout firms proffered. To reimburse investors, the buyout firms don't actually pay cash. Instead, they lower separate management fees the investors owe by the same amount. For managing their money, private-equity firms typically charge investors between 1 and 2 percent of the cash they commit as a management fee. Blackstone, Apollo Global Management LLC, Carlyle Group LP and KKR collectively reported roughly $9 billion in management fees from their private-equity businesses between 2008 and the end of 2013, regulatory filings show. Read more.(Subscription required.)

EMERGING-MARKET DISTRESSED DEBT LOSS IS WORST SINCE 2008

Emerging-market distressed debt losses are the worst this month since the global financial crisis, Bloomberg News reported yesterday. Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Distressed Emerging Markets Corporate Plus Index fell 13.4 percent through Dec. 26, set for its worst performance since October 2008, as a tumble in the price of oil sparked a currency crisis in Russia. That brought this year's decline to 19.7 percent, the most in six years. High-yield distressed securities in the U.S. lost 8 percent, the indexes show. Emerging markets accounted for 14 of the 56 global defaults this year in Standard & Poor's coverage. Read more.

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USTP NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING ON CHAPTER 11 MONTHLY OPERATING REPORTS

Section 602 of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) authorizes the U.S. Trustee Program (USTP) to issue rules requiring uniform periodic reports by debtors in possession or trustees in non-small business cases under chapter 11. The USTP just published in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking seeking public comment on the proposed rule and periodic report forms. The proposed rule is published in the Federal Register at 79 FR 66659 (Nov. 10, 2014) (to be codified at 28 C.F.R. pt. 58). The proposed rule, along with the proposed periodic report forms and instructions, may be viewed on the USTP's website. The proposed rule may also be accessed at www.regulations.gov. All public comments must be submitted on or before January 9, 2015, via www.regulations.gov. Please note that the proposed rule and forms only apply in chapter 11 cases filed by debtors that are not small businesses. Small business debtors are already required to use Official Form 25C, "Small Business Monthly Operating Report."

NEW CASE SUMMARY ON VOLO: STATION FINANCIAL V. MCCORMICK (IN RE MCCORMICK; 8TH CIR.)

Summarized by Bryan Robinson

The Eighth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel reversed the bankruptcy court's order denying Starion Financial's motion to compel payment of fees under the confirmed reorganization plan and granting the debtors' motion to disallow attorneys' fees and costs. The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel remanded the case back to the bankruptcy court for further proceedings consistent with the panel's opinion. There are more than 1,500 appellate opinions summarized on Volo, and summaries typically appear within 24 hours of the ruling. Click here regularly to view the latest case summaries on ABI's Volo website.

NEW ON ABI'S BANKRUPTCY BLOG EXCHANGE: IRS AUCTIONING DEFERRED ANNUITY OF FORMER BASEBALL PLAYER

A recent blog post looks at the IRS auction of the deferred annuity the New York Mets owe to former major league baseball player Darryl Strawberry.

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ABI Quick Poll

"Executoriness" should be dropped as a threshold requirement in § 365.

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2015

January
- New Orleans Consumer Bankruptcy Conference
    Jan. 19, 2015 | New Orleans
- Rocky Mountain Bankruptcy Conference
    Jan. 22-23, 2015 | Denver

February
- Caribbean Insolvency Symposium
    Feb. 5-7, 2015 | Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
- VALCON 2015
    Feb. 25-27, 2015 | Las Vegas
 

March
- Paskay Bankruptcy Seminar
    March 5-7, 2015 | Tampa, Fla.
- Bankruptcy Battleground West
    March 24, 2015 | Los Angeles, Calif.

April
- Annual Spring Meeting
    April 16-19, 2015 | Washington, D.C.

STATE BANKRUPTCY DEBATE RETURNS

Nearly two years after a "fierce" debate that "fizzled as quickly as it started," University of Pennsylvania law professor David Skeel is arguing that the idea of giving states a way to file for bankruptcy remains relevant and necessary, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. In addition to corporations and consumers, the Bankruptcy Code allows municipalities to seek chapter 9 protection. But there is currently no chapter set aside for states that find themselves teetering on the brink of insolvency, nor have states needed one. Yet with major budget deficits, underfunded pensions and declining tax revenues, some say that states should have a legal framework within which to restructure. Skeel advocated the idea of state bankruptcy in The Weekly Standard, as well as in the pages of the Wall Street Journal between November 2010 and January 2011, and the view picked up steam once Newt Gingrich and Jeb Bush added their voices. "Creditors of states have a great deal [of difficulty] collecting from the state," Skeel said recently in resurrecting the idea of state bankruptcy. "It's really hard to get a state to pay you because of sovereign immunity." Read more. (Subscription required.)

REGULATOR FACES ANOTHER LAWSUIT OVER DODD-FRANK

The Obama administration's new rules for Wall Street suffered another setback this week as the financial industry leveled a lawsuit challenging a crucial piece of the regulatory overhaul, the New York Times DealBook blog reported on Friday. The CME Group, a giant Chicago exchange, sued its regulator last Thursday over a new rule that aims to shed light on the murky derivatives trading industry. The regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, drafted the rule in January under guidance from the Dodd-Frank Act. The case is part of the financial industry's broader legal assault on Dodd-Frank. As regulators hash out the final details of some 400 rules, Wall Street has shifted the fight from backroom lobbying to the courtroom. The trading commission has already been sued twice over Dodd-Frank rules, and Wall Street plans to turn up the heat on the Obama administration next year with a bevy of other legal challenges. Read more.

ANALYSIS: CHILD'S EDUCATION, PARENTS' CRUSHING LOANS

There are record numbers of student borrowers in financial distress, but millions of parents who have taken out loans to pay for their children's college education make up a less-visible generation in debt, the New York Times reported yesterday. For the most part, these parents did well enough through midlife to take on sizable loans, but some have since fallen on tough times because of the recession, health problems, job loss or lives that took a sudden hard turn. In the first three months of this year, the number of student loan borrowers aged 60 and older was 2.2 million, a figure that has tripled since 2005. That makes them the fastest-growing age group for college debt. All told, those borrowers owe $43 billion, up from $8 billion seven years ago, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Read more.

TWO MILLION COULD LOSE UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS UNLESS CONGRESS EXTENDS PROGRAM

More than 2 million Americans stand to lose their jobless benefits unless Congress reauthorizes federal emergency unemployment help before the end of the year, the Washington Post reported today. The people in danger of having their unemployment checks cut off are among those who have benefited least from the slowly improving job market: Americans who have been out of work longer than six months. These workers have exhausted their state unemployment insurance, leaving them reliant on the federal program. In addition to those at risk of abruptly losing their benefits in December, 1 million people would have their checks curtailed by April if the program is not renewed, according to lawmakers and advocates pushing for an extension. Read more.

ANALYSIS: DEEP DISCOUNTS ON FORECLOSED HOMES DISAPPEARING

A market analysis by Zillow found that the average national discount on a foreclosure in September has fallen to only about 8 percent below market value, the Washington Post reported today. That is a significant change from the 24 percent average markdown reported in 2009 during the depths of the housing bust, and another signal that the country's housing market is inching toward recovery. "There’s no such thing as a fire sale on a foreclosure right now," said Marc Joseph, a real estate agent in Fort Myers, Fla. "We’re getting back to that point where if something good hits the markets, we’re getting multiple offers again." According to Zillow, the deepest discounts can be found on foreclosures in the Pittsburgh area, at 27 percent. Cleveland, Cincinnati and Baltimore have average markdowns on foreclosures topping 20 percent. But in many hard-hit markets, particularly ones where home prices fell sharply and investors and buyers have swooped in to buy up foreclosures, discounts have all but vanished. Zillow found that in Las Vegas and Phoenix, there is "no discernible difference" between foreclosure and non-foreclosure sales. Read more.

OPEN PUBLIC HEARING ON CHAPTER 11 REFORM AT ABI'S WINTER LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

ABI's Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11 will hold a public hearing on Friday, Nov. 30, at 11:15 a.m. (MT) during the Winter Leadership Conference in Tucson, Ariz., at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort. Members are welcome to provide testimony on their suggestions for ways to improve the operation of chapter 11. The hearing is the fifth in a series of public field hearings. Statements and video from all the recent hearings can be found at the Commission website at http://commission.abi.org.

Interested members should contact Sam Gerdano at [email protected] for more details about in-person testimony. Those interested may also file written statements of any length for consideration by the Commission. All materials will be part of the Commission's record to be transmitted to Congress following the two-year investigation and report. Please consider this great opportunity to become part of the legal reform of the Bankruptcy Code.

The next public hearing will be Thursday, Nov. 15, at the CFA Annual Convention in Phoenix. For future Commission hearings, please click here: http://commission.abi.org/.

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LATEST CASE SUMMARY ON VOLO: OVERSTREET V. JOINT FACILITIES MANAGEMENT, LLC (IN RE CRESCENT RESOURCE LLC; 5TH CIR.)

Summarized by Eric Lockridge of Kean Miller LLP

The Fifth Circuit ruled that an untimely Rule 59(e) motion to alter or amend a district court's judgment affirming a bankruptcy court's dismissal order does not extend the 30-day deadline to file a notice of appeal of the district court's judgment.

There are nearly 700 appellate opinions summarized on Volo, and summaries typically appear within 24 hours of the ruling. Click here regularly to view the latest case summaries on ABI’s Volo website.

NEW ON ABI’S BANKRUPTCY BLOG EXCHANGE: DEWEY LEBOEUF AVOIDS LITIGATION MORASS OF MOST LAW FIRM BANKRUPTCY CASES

The Bankruptcy Blog Exchange is a free ABI service that tracks 35 bankruptcy-related blogs. A recent post examines how the settlement in the Dewey LeBoeuf case has helped the firm avoid the failures that typically produce lengthy and litigious bankruptcy cases. For more on issues related to large firm bankruptcies, listen to a recent ABI podcast here.

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ABI Quick Poll

Despite the "free and clear" language of Sect. 363(f), purchasers of assets in 363 sales may still be liable for injuries to unidentifiable future claimants. (In re Grumman Olson Indus, S.D.N.Y.).

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November
- Winter Leadership Conference
     November 29 - December 1, 2012 | Tucson, Ariz.

December
- Forty-Hour Bankruptcy Mediation Training
     December 4-8, 2012 | New York, N.Y.

2013

January
- Western Consumer Bankruptcy Conference
     January 21, 2013 | Las Vegas, Nev.
- Rocky Mountain Bankruptcy Conference
     January 24-25, 2013 | Denver, Colo.

February
- Caribbean Insolvency Symposium
     February 7-9, 2013 | Miami, Fla.
- Kansas City Advanced Consumer Bankruptcy Practice Institute
     February 17-19, 2013 | Kansas City, Mo.
- VALCON 2013
     February 20-22, 2013 | Las Vegas, Nev.

SURVEY: U.S. CITIES STILL FACE FISCAL STRAIN

A survey released on Thursday by the National League of Cities showed that America's cities are projecting a sixth straight year of revenue declines in 2012, although more financial officers feel that their municipalities are now better able to meet their fiscal needs, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The survey, which included responses from 324 cities, also found that reserves are expected to fall as cities use the extra cash to weather the economic downturn. If projections hold, cities would have drawn down their reserves by nearly 50 percent since 2007. Employee and retiree health care costs and pensions were identified as having the largest negative impact on city finances, and looking ahead, underfunded pension and health care liabilities will persist as a challenge. Urban economies will also face declining or slow growth in future property taxes, given that the real estate market continues to sputter. Read more. (Subscription required.)

COMMENTARY: DESPITE LOW FED RATES, BANK BOND YIELDS ON MORTGAGE RATES CONTINUE TO INCREASE

While a 30-year mortgage with 2.8 percent interest could already exist, something in the banking system is holding it back, even though few experts agree on what that "something" is, according to a commentary today in the New York Times DealBook blog. Right now, borrowers are paying around 3.55 percent for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage that qualifies for a government guarantee of repayment. That's down from 4.1 percent a year ago, and 5.06 percent three years ago. Mortgage rates have declined as the Federal Reserve has bought trillions of dollars of bonds, a policy that aims to stimulate the economy. Last week, the Fed said that it would make new purchases, focusing on bonds backed by mortgages. While banks make mortgages, they have sold most of them into the bond market since the 2008 crisis, attaching a government guarantee of repayment in the process. The metric effectively encapsulates the size of the gain that banks make on those sales. In September 2011, banks were making mortgages with an interest rate of 4.1 percent. They were then selling those mortgages into the market via bonds that were trading with an interest rate, or yield, of 3.36 percent, according to a Bloomberg index. Bond yields have fallen a lot more than the mortgage rates banks are charging borrowers. Banks are not fully passing on the low rates in the bond market to borrowers, according to the commentary, but are instead taking bigger gains, thereby increasing the size of their cut. Read the full commentary.

REPORT: FED RESEARCHERS SAY CONSUMER DOUBT WORSENED UNEMPLOYMENT

A Federal Reserve study said that the U.S. unemployment rate would be around 7 percent instead of the current 8 to 9 percent if not for the current level of doubt among consumers about economic issues including fiscal policy, Bloomberg News reported today. "Uncertainty has pushed up the U.S. unemployment rate by between one and two percentage points since the start of the financial crisis in 2008," Sylvain Leduc and Zheng Liu, research advisers at the San Francisco Fed, wrote in a paper released today. The Federal Open Market Committee on Sept. 13 announced that it will hold interest rates at near zero until at least mid-2015 and purchase $40 billion a month in mortgage debt until the labor market improves. The unemployment rate has exceeded 8 percent for 43 months, Labor Department figures showed Sept. 7. Consumers' doubts about the economy may have put a greater drag on the economy over the past few years, compared to previous recessions, because policymakers had never run out of room to lower the federal funds rate until 2008, Leduc and Liu said. Doubt played "essentially no role" during the 1981-82 recession and its subsequent recovery, when the Fed’s benchmark interest rate was much higher, the authors’ analysis showed. Read more.

COMMENTARY: “TREASURY” MOTORS

The Obama Administration is refusing GM's stock buyback because the automaker's shares are trading at around $24 – no mere tumble from the November 2010 IPO price of $33. Selling at that point would mean that the government would lose $15 billion, according to a Wall Street Journal editorial today. GM executives are requesting that Treasury offload at least some of its 500 million shares, or 26.5 percent of the company. The company is anxious to shed its “Government Motors” stigma as well as compensation ceilings that make it difficult to recruit talent. However, GM's share price needs to hit $53 for the U.S. to break even. Read more. (Subscription required.)

ABI IN-DEPTH

ABI MEMBERS WELCOME TO ATTEND ACB'S FREE HALF-DAY "BANKRUPTCY: BACK TO THE FUTURE" PROGRAM IN SEPTEMBER

The American College of Bankruptcy invites you to attend a free half-day program on Sept. 28 in Chicago for a discussion of many of the challenging topics facing current bankruptcy and reorganization professionals. Topics to be addressed include recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, important work of the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules, and developments in the field of bankruptcy ethics. The nation’s leading judges, academics and bankruptcy professionals are among the speakers for the program. While there is no cost to attend, seating is limited, so early reservation is suggested. For more information and to register, please click here.

LATEST CASE SUMMARY ON VOLO: FDIC V. AMTRUST FINANCIAL CORP. (IN RE AM TRUST FINANCIAL CORP.; 6TH CIR.)

Summarized by Tony Bisconti of Bienert, Miller & Katzman

In affirming the district court, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals found that language in a stipulated cease-and-desist order requiring a parent corporation to "ensure" that its subsidiary, a bank, maintain certain ratios was ambiguous, and it was also ambiguous with respect to the entity it supposedly obligated (whether it was the parent, the board of the parent or the subsidiary). The Sixth Circuit further found that based on a totality of the evidence considered, the district court did not commit error in determining that the cease-and-desist order was not intended to be a commitment of the parent corporation to maintain the capital of the subsidiary bank entitling the FDIC to payment under 11 U.S.C. §365(o).

There are more than 600 appellate opinions summarized on Volo, and summaries typically appear within 24 hours of the ruling. Click here regularly to view the latest case summaries on ABI’s Volo website.

NEW ON ABI’S BANKRUPTCY BLOG EXCHANGE: NINTH CIRCUIT HOLDS THAT NON-DISCHARGEABILITY ACTIONS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO ARBITRATION

The Bankruptcy Blog Exchange is a free ABI service that tracks 35 bankruptcy-related blogs. A recent blog post examines a recent ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejecting two creditors' creative contention that the debtor’s debt to them should be denied a discharge under §523 for fraud in connection with a contract containing an arbitration clause resolved through arbitration proceedings. In Matter of Eber, 2012 WL 2690744 (9th Cir. 2012), the creditors and the debtor entered into an agreement relating to the construction and operation of the debtor’s beauty salon in Las Vegas. The agreement required that all disputes arising under the agreement would be arbitrated in New York. After disputes arose, the creditors commenced an arbitration proceeding against the debtor asserting claims for breach of contract, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty.

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ABI Quick Poll

Bankruptcy courts should have unfettered discretion in adjusting fee applications, even when no party-in-interest has raised objections.

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September
- 38th Annual Lawrence P. King and Charles Seligson Workshop on Bankruptcy & Business Reorganization
     September 19-20, 2012 | New York, N.Y.
- "When Is an Individual Chapter 11 the Best Fit?" Live Webinar
     September 27, 2012
- American College of Bankruptcy's "Bankruptcy: Back to the Future" Program
     September 28, 2012 | Chicago, Ill.

October
- Nuts & Bolts for Young and New Practitioners - KC
     October 4, 2012 | Kansas City, Mo.
- Midwestern Bankruptcy Institute Program, Midwestern Consumer Forum
     October 5, 2012 | Kansas City, Mo.
- Bankruptcy 2012: Views from the Bench
     October 5, 2012 | Washington, D.C.
- Chicago Consumer Bankruptcy Conference
     October 8, 2012 | Chicago, Ill.
- "Trending Issues: Examiners and Select Plan Confirmation Issues" Webinar
October 15, 2012
- International Insolvency and Restructuring Symposium
     October 18, 2012 | Rome, Italy

November
- U.S./Mexico Restructuring Symposium
     November 7, 2012 | Mexico City, Mexico
- Professional Development Program
     November 9, 2012 | New York, N.Y.
- Detroit Consumer Bankruptcy Conference
     November 12, 2012 | Detroit, Mich.
- Winter Leadership Conference
     November 29 - December 1, 2012 | Tucson, Ariz.

December
- Forty-Hour Bankruptcy Mediation Training
     December 4-8, 2012 | New York, N.Y.

2013

February
- Kansas City Advanced Consumer Bankruptcy Practice Institute
     February 17-19, 2013 | Kansas City, Mo.