Alexandria, Va. — Bankruptcy judges and leading practitioners from the Third and Fourth U.S. Judicial Circuits will head the faculty for ABI’s 2025 Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop, being held Aug. 18-20 at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey, Pa. More than 200 attendees are expected to take part in the event, which brings together the region’s top insolvency professionals for three days of current developments and networking. There are 7.75 hours of general CLE credit pending in states calculating CLE on a 60-minute hour, and 9.3 hours of general CLE credit are pending in 50-minute-hour states.

Program co-chairs for the Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop are Edward T. Gavin of Gavin/Solmonese LLC (Wilmington, Del.) and Amanda R. Steele of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. (Wilmington, Del.). The judicial co-chairs for the workshop are Bankruptcy Judges Maria Ellena Chavez-Ruark (D. Md.; Greenbelt) and Thomas M. Horan (D. Del.; Wilmington).

Topics to be discussed at the Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop include:

·      Economic Impact of Current Trends in Policies and Politics

·      Preferences: What’s New?

·      Plan Confirmation Issues and Challenges

·      Litigation Issues: Discovery in Contested Matters

·      My Plan Is Confirmed – Now What?

·      Chapter 15 Issues Post-Purdue Pharma

·      The Head-On Collision of 23andMe and Data Privacy

·      The Use (and Misuse) of Expert Witnesses

·      Restaurant and Franchise Issues in Chapter 11

·      Ethics: Retention Issues

For more information about ABI’s 2025 Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop, visit https://www.abi.org/hybrid/conference/ma25/page.  

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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 10,000 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.