ABI Podcast

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.

The podcast features a conversation between ABI executive director Sam Gerdano and George Singer, a partner at Lindquist & Vennum in Minneapolis and member of the ABI Law Review Advisory Board, who will discuss some of the important judicial opinions written during the first year of BAPCPA.

The podcast features a conversation between Prof. David Skeel, ABI's Resident Scholar, and Martin Bienenstock, talking about his representation of Enron, the substantive consolidation decision in Owens Corning and reforms brought by the new bankruptcy law.

The podcast features a conversation between ABI executive director Sam Gerdano and Ron Sturgeon, a self-made millionaire from Texas who's written a new humor book on terms and jargon used in the business and financial world called 'Green Weenies and Due Diligence.

In part two of his conversation with ABI Resident Scholar David Skeel, famed bankruptcy counsel Harvey Miller shares anecdotes from some of the early mega-cases under the Code, and comments on developments such as DIP financing, distressed debt trading and other trends of the '90s through today.

The podcast features a conversation between Prof. David Skeel, ABI's Resident Scholar, and Eric Brunstad of Bingham McCutchen LLC (Boston) about his experience in arguing bankruptcy cases before the Supreme Court.

The podcast features a conversation between ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano and David Kuney (Sidley Austin LLP; Washington, D.C.), who discussed retail bankruptcy and Landlord's Waterloo whether landlords have been able to effectively protect their rights in bankruptcy.

This week's podcast will feature a conversation between Prof. David Skeel, ABI's Resident Scholar, and Nell Hennessy, the president and CEO of Fiduciary Counselors, Inc., a Washington based consulting firm which serves as a fiduciary in company transactions involving pension plan assets. Nell is a former Deputy executive Director and chief negotiator for the PBGC, and a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher. They discuss the dynamic issues at play in workouts and bankruptcies with large pension liabilities, and highlight the changes coming due to the new pension law.