ABI Podcast

Conversation with Alex J. Pollock
This podcast features a discussion between ABI Executive Director Samuel J. Gerdano and American Enterprise Institute Resident Fellow Alex J. Pollock about the current troubles in the subprime mortgage market. With nearly 35 years in the banking industry, including twelve years as president and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, Pollock is a leading expert on housing issues and has testified recently on Capitol Hill on the subprime mortgage downturn.

Conversation with Roberta DeAngelis
ABI Deputy Executive Director Felicia S. Turner talks with Roberta DeAngelis, Acting General Counsel for the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees, about some challenging chapter 11 issues that are recurring in cases of all sizes. With BAPCPA having shepherded in changes affecting debtors in possession and the U.S. Trustee's oversight of chapter 11 cases, DeAngelis talks about the U.S. Trustees' positions on such issues as key employee retention plans and ß1104(e). She also discusses the Program's positions on other items of interest to chapter 11 practitioners and professionals, such as a debtor in possession's retention of a chief restructuring officer and the new bankruptcy rule regarding procuring certain relief during the first 20 days of a case.

Conversation with Prof. Stephen J. Lubben
Claude Chip Bowles Jr. of Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC (Louisville, Ky.), the chairman of ABI's professional fee study advisory board and practitioner advisory board, discusses the results of ABI's chapter 11 professional fee study with reporter Prof. Stephen J. Lubben of Seton Hall University School of Law. The recently completed study examining the issue of professional compensation in chapter 11 cases was funded by the American Bankruptcy Institute Endowment Fund.

Conversation with Prof. G. Marcus Cole
This month's podcast features a conversation with G. Marcus Cole of the Stanford Law School. Prof. Cole comments on the legislative and regulatory responses to the home mortgage foreclosure crisis, from a law and economics perspective. He argues that, as with many other examples of government intervention into the marketplace, these proposed solutions may end up doing more harm than good. He is interviewed by ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano.

Conversation with CLIFFORD J. WHITE III
This edition of the ABI podcast will feature an interview by ABI Deputy Executive Director Felicia S. Turner with Clifford J. White, III, Director of the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees. In addition to providing an update on the implementation of the Program's responsibilities under BAPCPA, White discusses the recent congressional hearing examining the Program's efforts to combat abuse in consumer cases, as well as the Program's work in chapter 11 cases.

Conversation with Stephen Case
This edition of the ABI podcast features an interview by former ABI Resident Scholar Prof. Jack Ayer with Stephen Case, Managing Director and General Counsel of Cohen & Company, LLC (New York) about his career in bankruptcy law.

Conversation with Prof. Todd J. Zywicki
This edition of the ABI podcast features an interview by ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano with Prof. Todd J. Zywicki of the George Mason University School of Law about his perspectives on bankruptcy, including the relationship between medical debt and bankruptcy.

Conversation With John W. Ames
This edition of the ABI podcast features an interview by ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano with ABI President-Elect John W. Ames of Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald PLLC (Louisville, Ky.) on John's recent business trip to Vietnam, a country he visited under different circumstances 38 years ago.