ABI Podcast

ABI Spring 2016 Resident Scholar Melissa Jacoby discusses the Corinthian chapter 11 case with Scott F. Gautier of Robins Kaplan LLP in Los Angeles and Christopher A. Ward of Polsinelli in Wilmington, Del. Both were counsel for a committee of former students of what was once one of the largest for-profit post-secondary educational companies in the U.S. and Canada. The case involves the unusual step of seeking to have the outstanding student loan debt of up to 500,000 former students forgiven.

Former ABI Resident Scholar Melissa Jacoby talks with Prof. Angela K. Littwin of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law about Littwin's research about the relationship between consumer credit and domestic violence. Littwin interviewed domestic violence victims about coerced debt, which occurs when the abuser in a violent relationship obtains credit in the victim's name via fraud or coercion.

ABI Resident Scholar Prof. Melissa Jacoby talks with Michael H. Reed, Special Counsel to Pepper Hamilton LLP (Philadelphia, Pa.). An author of a number of articles on successor liability and a contributor to ABI's forthcoming title examining environmental issues in bankruptcy, Reed discusses important issues and trends related to successor liability in chapter 11

Commercial Fraud Committee call on 5-25-2016

ABI Podacst 187 for review by ABI

Abi Podcast 186 - for review by ABI

Mediation and Bankruptcy Litigation Committee

ABI Resident Scholar Prof. Melissa Jacoby talks with Prof. Juliet Moringiello of Widener University Commonwealth Law School about the intersection of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and retail bankruptcies. Moringiello, a former ABI Resident Scholar, provides her perspective on recent retail bankruptcy issues, including consignment arrangements in the Sports Authority case.