ABI Podcast

ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano talks with Prof. Robert M. Lawless of the University of Illinois College of Law, a co-author of the 2012 study titled "Surrounding Race, Attorney Influence and Bankruptcy Chapter Choice," about the findings of racially disparate uses of chapter 13 bankruptcy. Lawless presented an update of the study's findings in October at the 2016 National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Annual Meeting, revealing that race continues to be a factor in the chapter choice for debtors, sometimes to their financial detriment, in certain parts of the country.

ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle and Una O'Boyle, Clerk of the Court for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, talk about the changes to the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure that are scheduled to take effect on December 1.

Trump's Casino Experience Demonstrates Job and Revenue Losses, According to Legal Scholar - Ep. 192 by ABI

ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle talks with Prof. Lois Lupica of the University of Maine School of Law and former ABI Resident Scholar about artificial intelligence (AI) in the practice of law. As IBM's "ROSS," the first AI attorney, was hired earlier this year, Lupica discusses the potential ways that AI will change the way that bankruptcy practitioners do business, including document discovery, case predictive software and more.

ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano talks with John E. Mudd, an attorney and respected legal commentator in Puerto Rico, who has closely followed the territory's debt crisis. He provides insight on the Financial Control Board created by the “Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act” (PROMESA).

Recorded on 7/28/2016 Mediation Issues

ABI Deputy Executive Director Amy Quackenboss talks with Mark Stingley and Michelle Masoner of Brian Cave LLP (Kansas City, Mo.), both authors on ABI's newest publication, How Secure Are You? Secured Creditors in Commercial and Consumer Bankruptcies. The book was written by members of ABI's Secured Credit Committee to provide practitioners with in-depth analysis of the most common concerns in secured claim disputes, including citation to important case law. Stingley and Masoner, both members of the committee, discuss the book and how it is an indispensable guide for anyone whose work involves secured creditor claims.

The latest American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) podcast features ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle talking with Prof. Stephen Lubben of Seton Hall University School of Law about the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denying General Motors from escaping liability for ignition-switch defects that came to light after its 363 sale, which have since generated nationwide litigation. Prof. Lubben has been following the case and has written extensively on GM’s bankruptcy on both Credit Slips and the New York Times DealBook blog.