The committee met at the Winter Leadership Conference at the Westin Mission Hills Resort in Rancho Mirage, Calif., on Dec. 8, 2007. Conducting the meeting on behalf of the Asset Sales Committee was Weston Anson and Daryl Martin of CONSOR.

The 2005 amendments to the Bankruptcy Code have been the source of much controversy. The “patient care ombudsman,” a new position created in health care bankruptcies, however, is one addition that has received little attention in the press.

"You won't hear many tort reformers admit it. They've done too good a job demonizing trial lawyers to let their bogeymen fade away. Twenty years ago, tort reform was an obscure movement with a funny name; today, politicians speak of "ending lawsuit abuse" or "eliminating frivolous lawsuits" -- tort reform by more felicitous names -- whenever they need a failsafe applause line.

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