ABI Podcast

Conversation With Karen Gross
This edition of the ABI podcast features an interview by ABI Resident Scholar Lois R. Lupica with Karen Gross, president of Southern Vermont College and the founder and former president of the Coalition for Consumer Bankruptcy Debtor Education, discussing her career of studying and advocating for remedies to the impact of overindebtedness.

Conversation With Anya Kamanetz
This week's podcast features an interview by ABI Resident Scholar Lois R. Lupica with writer Anya Kamanetz, whose series, 'Generation Debt: The New Economics of Being Young, received a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize and recently published the book, Generation Debt, about the financial pitfalls of younger generations.

Conversation With Richard Lieb
Richard M. Lieb of Cooley Godward Kronish LLP (New York), a distinguished bankruptcy professional, currently teaches a course in amicus brief writing as a scholar in residence at St. John's University School of Law. Prof. Lieb talks about his new career in teaching the next generation of bankruptcy stars in this month's ABI's podcast.

Conversation with Sol Stein
This podcast features an interview by ABI Resident Scholar Lois R. Lupica with Sol Stein, author, entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Stein and Day Publishers. As CEO of Stein and Day, he witnessed his company's journey through chapter 11 and chronicled the experience in the 1989 book A Feast for Lawyers Inside Chapter 11: An Expose.

Podcast 35 features an interview by ABI Resident Scholar Lois R. Lupica with Dr. Robert Manning, research professor and director of the Center for Consumer Financial Services and past Caroline Werner Gannett Professor of the Humanities at Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr. Manning is an expert on consumer credit and financial services and is the author of Credit Card Nation and Give Yourself Credit (forthcoming). Dr. Manning discusses the current consumer debt crisis, trends in the market for consumer credit, the impact of the recent bankruptcy amendments on consumers and various strategies for addressing the problem of consumer overindebtedness.

This podcast features a conversation between ABI Executive Director Samuel Gerdano and Representative Edwin Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.), an ABI member since 1986 and partner in the Denver law firm of Berenbaum, Weinshienk & Eason, about his new career serving in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The podcast features a conversation between former ABI Resident Scholar David Skeel and Donald S. Bernstein of Davis Polk & Wardwell (New York), discussing his career as a leading corporate restructuring attorney, having worked in such proceedings as Enron, Refco and Delphi.

The podcast features a conversation between ABI executive director Sam Gerdano and Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of the best-seller Freakonomics. Dubner recently spoke at the ABI author luncheon during the NCBJ meeting in San Francisco. Tomorrow's podcast continues the lively discussion.