National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges

Chicago October 8 - 11, 2014

88th Annual Meeting National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges

Meet the NCBJ Produced Educational Sessions’ Moderators and Presenters Table of ConTenTs page

Hon. Elizabeth L. Perris ...... 1 Hon. Steven Rhodes...... 2 Daniel Heimowitz ...... 3 Marc A. Levinson ...... 4 Ron Oliner ...... 5 Hon. William Houston Brown (ret.) ...... 6 Professor Katherine Porter ...... 7 Michael St. Patrick Baxter ...... 8 Whitman L. Holt ...... 9 Mindy A. Mora ...... 10 Douglas B. Rosner ...... 11 Hon. Brian D. Lynch ...... 12 Calvin Hwang ...... 13 Todd F. Maynes...... 14 Hon. James F. Holderman ...... 15 Stephen D. Lerner ...... 16 Jason Lichter...... 17 Camisha Simmons ...... 18 James H.M. Sprayregen, P.C...... 19 Adam Harris ...... 20 Eddie Middleton...... 21 Luiz Fernando Valente de Paiva ...... 22 Mark Robinson ...... 23 Hon. James M. Peck (ret.) ...... 24 Bruce Bennett...... 25 Mark D. Brodsky...... 26 William Q. Derrough ...... 27 Kenneth Liang...... 28 Hon. Bernice Bouie Donald ...... 29 Hon. Ann C. Williams ...... 30 Shay A. Agsten ...... 31 Timothy J. Dragelin...... 32 Stephen E. Hessler ...... 33 Ori Katz ...... 34 Demetra L. Liggins ...... 35 Richard L. Wynne ...... 36 Hon. Barbara J. Houser ...... 37 Ross M. Kwasteniet ...... 38 Jeﬀrey N. Pomerantz ...... 39 Damion S. Schaible...... 40 Jane Lee Vris ...... 41 Hon. Colleen A. Brown...... 42 Scott Rogers ...... 43 Paul Steven Singerman ...... 44 Hon. James B. Haines, Jr...... 45 Hon. A. Benjamin Goldgar ...... 46 Hon. Neil P. Olack...... 47 Hon. Erithe A. Smith ...... 48 Christine E. Devine ...... 49 Timothy F. Nixon...... 50 Professor Nancy B. Rapoport ...... 51 G. Eric Brunstad, Jr...... 52 Erwin Chemerinsky ...... 53 Chicago 2014 National Conference Thursday, October of9 Bankruptcy | East Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 9:00 am – 10:00 am

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NCBJ Hon. elizAbeTH l. Perris

Judge Perris has been a united states Bankruptcy Judge for the district of Oregon since 1984. she has been an Adjunct Professor at Lewis & Clark College of Law (2005 - 2006, 2008 - 2009) and Willamette university school of Law (1998). she was a member of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit from 1988 - 1993 and 1998 - 2005. From 1976 - 1984 she worked as a bankruptcy court law clerk, served as a bankruptcy trustee and was an attorney in private practice specializing in bankruptcy. Judge Perris has been a member of the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy rules since 2007 and is chairperson of the Bankruptcy Forms subcommittee. she has served as chairperson of the Bankruptcy Judges’ education Committee of the Federal Judicial Center (FJC), FJC board member, chairperson of the Bankruptcy section of the Federal Bar Association, chairperson of the Oregon state Bar (OsB) Continuing Legal education Committee, and chairperson of the OsB debtor-Creditor section. she is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.

Judge Perris has been a judicial mediator in the chapter 9 cases ﬁled by multiple cities: Vallejo, Mammoth Lakes, stockton, and detroit.

united states Bankruptcy Court district of Oregon 1001 sW 5th Ave., rm 700 Portland, Or 97204

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NCBJ Hon. sTeven rHodes moderATor

Judge sTeVeN rHOdes has been a united states Bankruptcy Judge in the eastern district of Michigan (detroit) since 1985, serving as its chief judge from 2002-2009. He was also appointed to the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the sixth Circuit from 1997-2004 and 2008-2011, serving as its chief judge from 2002-2004. He was an Associate editor of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, published by the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, from 1994-1996. in 1995, he was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. From 2002-2004, he was the Chair of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges endowment for education. From 2005-2009, he was Vice President for research of the American Bankruptcy institute and on its executive Committee. On April 3, 2009, the ABi awarded him its 2009 distinguished service Award. He is also a co-author, with Kathy Bazoian Phelps, of “THE PONZI BOOK: A LegAL resOurCe FOr uNrAVeLiNg PONZi sCHeMes,” published by Matthew Bender LexisNexis (March 2012).

united states Bankruptcy Court eastern district of Michigan 211 West Fort street detroit, Mi 48226

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NCBJ dAniel HeimowiTz

daniel Heimowitz is a Managing director in rBC Capital Markets' u.s. Municipal Finance group. He joined rBC in 2008 and currently leads municipal banking eﬀorts with large issuers throughout the united states. On september 30, 2014 he completed a term as Chairman of the Board of directors of the Municipal securities rulemaking Board (MsrB), the Congressionally created, self-regulatory organization charged with promulgating the rules of conduct for the us Municipal securities Market. during his tenure the MsrB expanded its scope with the introduction of rules of conduct for advisors to municipal issuers and signiﬁcantly expanded pricing transparency and credit disclosure standards required for transactions in the municipal secondary market.

Prior to his position with rBC Capital Markets, Mr. Heimowitz was a managing director in Lehman Brother's public finance group. He joined Lehman Brothers after a 19-year career with Moody's investors services, during which time he served as executive vice president and head of the public finance ratings group, while also chairing Moody's public finance ratings and ratings policy committees.

Mr. Heimowitz is a member of the Municipal Analysts group of New York, the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and a past president of both the society of Municipal Analysts and the Municipal Forum of New York. He previously served as a member of the governmental Accounting standards Advisory Council and the government Finance Oﬃcers Association Advisory Committee. Mr. Heimowitz received bachelor's degrees in economics and geography from Clark university and a master's degree in city planning from Harvard university.

rBC Capital Markets [email protected]

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NCBJ mArC A. levinson

Marc Levinson is a partner in Orrick, Herrington & sutcliffe LLP, resident in its sacramento office. since starting his career as an associate in shutan & Trost in Los Angeles in 1975, his practice has been limited to insolvency planning, bankruptcy cases and workouts and other out-of-court reorganizations. He was lead bankruptcy counsel for the City of Vallejo, California, whose chapter 9 plan of adjustment went effective in the fall of 2011, and currently is the lead bankruptcy counsel for City of stockton, California. Vallejo produced two published bankruptcy court decisions, one affirmed by the BAP and one by the district court, each in a published opinion. As of April 2014, stockton had produced six published bankruptcy court decisions. Mr. Levinson is a conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference, and is the Chair of the Board of regents of the American College of Bankruptcy. He received his B.A. in english from uCLA in 1970, and his J.d. from the u.C. davis school of Law in 1973, where he was the editor-in-Chief of the Law review. He served as a law clerk for Chief Justice donald r. Wright of the California supreme Court (1973-74) and for Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. of the u.s. district Court for the Northern district of California (1974-75).

Orrick, Herrington & sutcliﬀe LLP 400 Capitol Mall, suite 3000 sacramento, CA 95814-4497 916-329-4910 [email protected]

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NCBJ ron oliner

ron Oliner practices in the area of business reorganization and ﬁnancial restructuring. He represents ﬁnancial institutions, including loan servicers, mortgage lenders and asset based lenders, as well as bankruptcy trustees, creditors' committees, and rents and equity receivers.

Mr. Oliner has served as a chapter 11 trustee in the Northern district of California Bankruptcy Court, and is a court-appointed mediator and examiner. He has testiﬁed in jury trials as a qualiﬁed expert witness on bankruptcy and commercial remedies, and is versed in all creditors' remedies in both state and federal courts. He has also defended appeals in bankruptcy appellate courts, district courts, and before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

in recent years, Mr. Oliner served as counsel to creditors' committees in Health Plan of the Redwoods, one of the largest chapter 11s ever filed in santa rosa; Swift Instruments, Inc. in san Jose; sonicBLue, inc. in san Jose and Cedar Funding, inc. in san Jose. He has represented trustees in several very large cases, including Cyberhome Entertainment, Inc. and 3DFX Interactive, Inc. in the Northern district of California. Mr. Oliner is currently representing the Vallejo Police Officers Association in the City of Vallejo chapter 9 bankruptcy case, pending in sacramento, as well as the san Bernardino Police Officers Association in the City of san Bernardino's chapter 9 case, pending in riverside.

in addition to his bankruptcy practice, Mr. Oliner has extensive experience in receivership, foreclosure and workouts. He has represented lenders in over one hundred receivership cases in state courts throughout California and in other jurisdictions. Mr. Oliner also represents court-appointed receivers in numerous cases in Northern California.

Mr. Oliner was the 2009 president of the California receivers Forum. He was elected chair of the Commercial Law and Bankruptcy section of the san Francisco Bar Association in 2005; served on the Northern district of California's Bench-Bar Liaison in 2003-2005; and served as president of the California receivers Forum, Bay Area Chapter, in 2001-2002.

Mr. Oliner has written and spoken on a variety of topics in the bankruptcy and receivership ﬁelds. He has been designated as a Northern California super Lawyer in the bankruptcy ﬁeld in 2005 through 2012; is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights law; and has been repeatedly recognized as one of the most active bankruptcy lawyers in the country by The deal.

Mr. Oliner is a 1990 graduate of the university of Oregon school of Law with a certiﬁcate in business law. While in law school, he served as Articles editor for the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation.

duane Morris LLP spear Tower One Market Plaza, suite 2200 san Francisco, CA 94105-1127 415-957-3104 [email protected]

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NCBJ Hon. williAm HousTon brown (ret.)

Honorable William Houston Brown retired in 2006 as a united states Bankruptcy Judge for the Western district of Tennessee, and he had been designated to sit also in the Middle district of Tennessee, southern district of Florida, eastern district of Michigan and Western district of Kentucky. Judge Brown served a four-year term on the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the sixth Circuit from 1999 through 2002. He received his law degree from the university of Tennessee, College of Law, where he was Order of the Coif. Judge Brown is a member of the American Bankruptcy institute, having served on its Board and executive Committee, and is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy. He is the author or co-author of several texts, including Bankruptcy exemption Manual, 2005 Bankruptcy reform Legislation with Analysis 1st and 2d editions, Bankruptcy and domestic relations Manual, The Law of debtors and Creditors (all published by Thomson West), and he is a principal contributing editor for Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice 3rd. He is also contributing author with Judge Keith M. Lundin of the online chapter 13 treatise, with a searchable case database, found at ch13online.com. He is currently Adviser to the Academy for Consumer Bankruptcy education, the education arm of the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees.

Thompsons station, TN 37179 970-319-2013 [email protected]

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NCBJ Professor KATHerine PorTer

Professor Porter specializes in commercial and consumer law, including bankruptcy, mortgage foreclosure, and credit cards. Her research focuses on empirical studies of consumer bankruptcy and has been published in journals including the Texas Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, and the Cornell Law Review. she is a co-author of textbook, The Law of Debtors and Creditors (Wolters Kluwer 2014), and the editor of Broke: How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class (stanford Press 2012).

in March 2012, Professor Porter was appointed by California Attorney general Kamala Harris to be the state's independent monitor of banks in a nationwide $25 billion mortgage settlement. As Monitor, she oversees the banks' implementation of the settlement reforms, conducts community outreach and education, and manages a program to assist homeowners. The Monitor Program, with a staﬀ of a dozen professionals, has reviewed and responded to over 5,000 complaints and has intervened with the banks in hundreds of situations. Professor Porter founded a Consumer Protection Clinic at uCi Law to involve students in the Monitor's work.

Professor Porter has been a principal investigator in several original empirical projects, including the 2007 Consumer Bankruptcy Project and the Mortgage study. she recently launched an ongoing data collection with Professors Lawless and Thorne on families ﬁling bankruptcy in 2013 and subsequent years. in 2012, Professor Porter served as a member of the Task Force Working group on Natural Persons’ insolvency for the World Bank insolvency and Creditor/debtor regime. Professor Porter has received awards for her academic and service work, including selection as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California in 2012, receipt of the Champion of Consumer rights Award from the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, and the award of the editors' Prize from the American Bankruptcy Law Journal for best article.

Professor Porter previously was on the faculty at the university of iowa College of Law and has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law school, uC Berkeley Law, the university of illinois College of Law, and the uNLV Boyd school of Law. she practiced bankruptcy law in Portland, Oregon, and clerked for the Honorable richard s. Arnold of the eighth Circuit. she earned her J.d. from Harvard Law school and her B.A. from Yale university.

university of California irvine school of Law 401 east Peltason drive, suite 3800 irvine, CA 92697-8000 949-824-9558

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NCBJ miCHAel sT. PATriCK bAXTer

MiCHAeL sT. PATriCK BAXTer is a partner at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, d.C. He advises creditors, official committees, and debtors in bankruptcy cases, advises on the structuring of transactions involving financially troubled companies, counsels companies in workouts and corporate restructurings, and serves as a Chapter 11 bankruptcy trustee, bankruptcy examiner, and consumer privacy ombudsman. Mr. Baxter was appointed the Chapter 11 Trustee of Money Centers of America in delaware. He successfully represented the creditors committee in the Ahern rentals Chapter 11 case in Nevada. Mr. Baxter served as the bankruptcy examiner in the Trump casinos reorganization in New Jersey. He was appointed the consumer privacy ombudsman in the Borders bankruptcy case in New York to review the sale of personally identifiable information.

Mr. Baxter is a Fellow and director of the American College of Bankruptcy, a Conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference, a Founding Member of the international insolvency institute, and a member of The American Law institute. He earned the distinguished Adjunct Faculty Teaching Award from The george Washington university Law school, and has received numerous other professional awards and distinctions. He was appointed by the Chief Justice of the united states to the united states Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy rules, where he chairs the subcommittee on Technology and Cross-Border insolvency.

Covington & Burling, LLP 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington dC 20004-2401 202-662-5164 [email protected]

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NCBJ wHiTmAn l. HolT

]Whitman L. Holt is a partner of Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & stern LLP in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Holt has represented clients across the bankruptcy spectrum, including borrowers in and out of court, debtors subject to involuntary bankruptcy petitions, municipal debtors, official committees, secured creditors in and out of bankruptcy, hedge and distressed debt funds, equity sponsors, plaintiffs and defendants in bankruptcy- related litigation, and purchasers of assets via chapter 11 plans and section 363 sales. Mr. Holt also has significant experience regarding various alternative insolvency regimes, including bank and thrift receiverships under title 12 of the u.s. Code and proceedings for troubled insurers under state law. Mr. Holt’s active bankruptcy-related appellate practice includes briefing multiple matters before the supreme Court of the united states, including the prevailing merits brief in the landmark stern v. Marshall case.

Mr. Holt is a regular participant in educational seminars and panels regarding bankruptcy and commercial law. He has also guest-lectured about bankruptcy and tax law at the uCLA, usC, and Loyola Law schools. Mr. Holt has been recognized as one of the top young corporate bankruptcy and restructuring attorneys in California by super Lawyers Magazine and by Chambers & Partners. in 2012, Mr. Holt was selected as a member of the inaugural class of delegates to the international insolvency institute’s Nextgen Leadership Program in Paris, France. Mr. Holt is a graduate of Bates College (B.A., 2002, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard Law school (J.d., 2005, cum laude).

Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoﬀ & stern LLP 1999 Avenue of the stars, 39th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90067-6049 310-407-4055 [email protected]

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NCBJ mindy A. morA

Mindy A. Mora focuses her practice on creditor´s rights, workouts, bankruptcy and commercial loan transactions, counselling high visibility clients in many major bankruptcy cases and restructuring eﬀorts, both nationally and in Florida. she previously served as Chair of the Business Law section of The Florida Bar, which represents the interests of over 5,000 business lawyers within the state of Florida. Mindy has been active in the development of Florida’s commercial laws, having chaired the Florida Bar Task Force that sponsored the 2007 revisions of the Assignment for the Beneﬁt of Creditors statute (chapter 727, Florida statutes). she has also co-sponsored the 1997 revisions to Article 8 and 1999 revisions to Article 9, uniform Commercial Code (chapters 678 and 679, Florida statutes). Mindy has often lectured and published articles about insolvency, restructuring and commercial lending.

Mindy has appeared on behalf of secured and unsecured creditors, committees, debtors, equity, trustees and purchasers of assets in numerous bankruptcy cases under chapters 11 and 7 including Florida gaming Corporation, Cabi sMA Tower i, LLLP, Cabi New river, LLC, Cabi 301 LLLP, Cabi downtown, LLC, Fontainebleau Las Vegas, LLC, iTg Vegas, inc., Circuit City stores, inc., Tradewinds Airlines, inc., America Capital Corporation, sunCruz Casinos, LLC, Atlas Air, inc., in re Abraham d. gosman, Viasource Communications, inc., usA Floral Corporation, universal gym equipment, and BMJ Medical Management, inc., to name but a few.

Bilzin sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod, LLP 1450 Brickell Avenue, 23rd Floor Miami, FL 33131 305-350-2414 [email protected]

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NCBJ douglAs b. rosner

douglas rosner is a director at the law firm of goulston & storrs based in Boston, where he practices in the firm’s Bankruptcy group. doug has extensive experience representing clients in complex chapter 11 reorganizations, chapter 7 liquidations, workouts and related litigation throughout the united states. He has represented corporate debtors, unsecured creditors’ committees, lenders, secured and unsecured creditors, purchasers of assets, investors, landlords and trustees. in addition, doug has counseled lenders and borrowers in corporate and real estate financing transactions, asset-backed securitizations and workouts. He served as co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Bankruptcy Law section and on the Boston Bar Association Council, executive Committee and Finance Committee. He is on the Board of directors of the Turnaround Management Association – Northeast Chapter and is a member of the American Bankruptcy institute. doug has been recognized by Chambers & Partners as one of “America’s Leading Business Lawyers” annually since 2003. He is also consistently ranked among the top lawyers in The deal’s bankruptcy league tables. doug received his undergraduate degree, cum laude, in 1988 from Brandeis university, and his law degree, cum laude, in 1991 from Boston College Law school.

goulston & storrs 400 Atlantic Avenue Boston, MA 02110 617-482-1776 [email protected]

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Brian d. Lynch was sworn in as a united states Bankruptcy Judge for the Western district of Washington, Tacoma division, on June 1, 2010. He received his J.d. from georgetown university Law Center in 1975. He currently serves on the Ninth Circuit iT Committee and Bankruptcy education Committee. Prior to becoming a judge, he was a standing Chapter 13 and Chapter 12 Trustee in the district of Oregon Bankruptcy Court, and before that practiced law for 25 years in seattle with the ﬁrm of Bishop, Lynch & White, Ps.

united states Bankruptcy Court Western district of Washington 1717 Paciﬁc Avenue, room 2155 Tacoma, WA 98402-3234

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Calvin Hwang received his Jd/MBA from Washington university in st. Louis as a Wood Fellow and his BA from the university of Michigan. He is senior bankruptcy counsel for Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation, inc. in east saint Louis, illinois, where he oversees the consumer bankruptcy practice and also works in foreclosure defense. He regularly practices in the Central and southern districts of illinois and in the eastern district of Missouri for pro bono clients. Land of Lincoln is the only provider of a full range of civil legal services to low-income persons in 65 counties in central and southern illinois, a service area the size of indiana. Prior to Land of Lincoln, Calvin worked as a private attorney in consumer bankruptcy and also served as counsel for a Chapter 7 Trustee in the eastern district of Missouri. He has presented at local and national bankruptcy seminars, including the 2013 National Consumer Litigation Conference in Washington d.C. and at multiple regional seminars in the greater st. Louis area.

Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation, inc. 8787 state street, suite 101 east saint Louis, illinois 62203 618-398-0958 x 273 [email protected]

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Todd Maynes, a partner in Kirkland's Chicago oﬃce, focuses his practice on the tax aspects of debt restructuring, bankruptcy, and mergers & acquisitions. Todd has served as chairman of the Planning Committee for both the university of Chicago Federal Tax Conference and the Chicago-Kent College of Law Federal Tax institute. He teaches bankruptcy taxation at Northwestern university school of Law, previously taught advanced income taxation at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and lectures regularly at the university of Michigan Law school. He is the only currently active tax attorney who is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference. He is co-chairman of the Kirkland & ellis Finance Committee, chairman of the Kirkland & ellis Beneﬁts Committee, administrator for the Firm's retirement plans, and Tax Matters Partner for the Firm.

Todd has been the lead tax advisor in numerous major bankruptcies and restructurings, including united Airlines, Conseco, Calpine, Charter Communications, Visteon, and Wr grace. Chambers USA said that Todd has a "spectacular" reputation in the bankruptcy tax area, and is a "talented and very smart man." Todd has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America, the Legal 500, and as one of Illinois' Super Lawyers. He has published many articles on tax matters, speaks frequently at tax conferences, and is the author of the BNA Portfolio on start-up expenses. The Legal 500 reports that Todd "is rated as 'a brilliant lawyer' who is 'a ﬁghter, but canny enough to know when to take a deal.”

Kirkland & ellis, LLP 300 North Lasalle Chicago, illinois 60654 312-862-2485 [email protected]

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Judge James F. Holderman has served on the united states district Court for the Northern district of illinois since 1985, and was Chief Judge of that court from July 1, 2006 to July 1, 2013. As Chief Judge, in addition to handling his assigned caseload, he over saw the court’s $27 million annual budget and 450 member staﬀ. during his years on the court, Judge Holderman has presided in more than 10,000 cases in all areas of federal jurisdiction, and has served by designation on judicial panels of the united states Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and seventh Circuit.

Before his appointment to the federal bench by President ronald reagan, Judge Holderman was a partner in the international law ﬁrm now known as dentons, where he specialized in federal court litigation. Before his years in private practice, he was an assistant united states attorney in Chicago and received several united states department of Justice awards for distinguished service.

Judge Holderman currently serves on the eight-member Board of the Federal Judicial Center, which is chaired by Chief Justice John g. roberts, Jr. Judge Holderman is the founding chair of the ongoing seventh Circuit electronic discovery Pilot Program, and a member of the Judicial Advisory Committee of the sedona Conference. Additionally, he has currently co-chaired the ABA Litigation section Trial Practice Committee and the ABA’s Commission on the American Jury Project. He is also a past-president of the richard Linn American inn of Court.

Judge Holderman is a recipient of the “Justice John Paul stevens Award” from the Chicago Bar Association, and the “Mark T. Banner Award” from the ABA section on intellectual Property Law, as well as several other awards and honors from various other organizations, including the Chicago American inn of Court, the Federal Bar Association, the illinois Bar Foundation, the intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, Lawyers’ Lend-A-Hand, and the Women’s Bar Association of illinois.

Judge Holderman has been a speaker at numerous judicial and bar association seminars, both nationally and internationally. Over the past three decades, Judge Holderman has taught at several law schools, including the university of Chicago Law school, the Chicago- Kent College of Law, The John Marshall Law school, and the university of illinois College of Law, where for more than twenty years he has taught an intensive course titled Aintellectual Property Trial Advocacy@ with his wife Paula Hudson Holderman, who is an attorney and currently the President of the illinois state Bar Association.

Judge Holderman has been a contributing author of several publications on various legal topics. He received both his undergraduate degree and his law degree from the university of illinois at urbana-Champaign, where he served as the managing editor of the law review.

united states district Court Northern district of illinois 219 south dearborn st., room 2146 Chicago, iL 60604 15 Chicago 2014 National Conference Thursday, October of9 Bankruptcy | East Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom CD | 11:45 am – 12:45 pm

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NCBJ sTePHen d. lerner

stephen d. Lerner is chair of the squire sanders restructuring & insolvency Practice group. He has an extensive national and cross-border restructuring practice in which he represents debtors, committees of unsecured creditors, secured and unsecured creditors, equity interest holders and acquirers of troubled businesses in Chapter 11 reorganization cases, Chapter 15 cases and out-of-court restructurings throughout the united states. stephen has led the representation of clients in the Chapter 11 bankruptcies of AmFin Financial, station Casinos, Chrysler, enron and eaglePicher, among many others. stephen currently is representing the Court Appointed expert in the City of detroit’s Chapter 9 Case. recently, stephen led squire sanders’ representation of the American College of Bankruptcy in ﬁling an amicus brief with the united states supreme Court in the highly anticipated case of Executive Beneﬁts Insurance Agency v. Peter H. Arkison, Trustee of the Estate of Bellingham Insurance Agency, Inc.

stephen is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy for which he has served as the regent for the 6th Circuit and currently serves as a member of the Board of directors and Chair of the strategic Planning Committee. He receives perennial recognition in The Best Lawyers in America and since 2004 stephen has been placed in the highest echelon of Ohio’s bankruptcy and restructuring lawyers by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. in every year from 2009 to the present, stephen has been honored by Chambers as one of fewer than 15 bankruptcy and restructuring lawyers in the us to receive a star individual ranking.

in addition to numerous bar associations, stephen is a member of the American Bankruptcy institute and the New York chapter of the Turnaround Management Association, a founder of the board of the Tri-state Association for Corporate renewal and a member of the executive Committee of the Midwest regional Bankruptcy seminar. He frequently contributes to bankruptcy and restructuring scholarship and teaches and lectures throughout the united states, including at NCBJ, ABi and serving as a guest lecturer at Harvard Business school, the university of Michigan Law school and the university of Cincinnati Law school. stephen recently served on the Bankruptcy Working group (and Chair of the Large Chapter 11 committee) of the Bankruptcy Court structure and insolvency Process Committee of the ABA Business Law section which issued a “Best Practices report on electronic discovery (esi) issues in Bankruptcy Cases” published in August 2013 edition of The Business Lawyer (American Bar Association).

squire sanders, LLP 221 east Fourth street, suite 2900 Cincinnati, OH 45202-4095 513-361-1220 [email protected]

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NCBJ JAson liCHTer

Jason Lichter, director of discovery services and Litigation support, Pepper Hamilton LLP Jason Lichter is the director of discovery services and Litigation support at Pepper Hamilton LLP. in this capacity, Mr. Lichter develops and implements strategies to ensure that the firm’s clients receive the highest quality discovery and litigation technology services in a cost-effective and defensible manner. Mr. Lichter advises colleagues and clients on how to leverage the latest tools and best practices to efficiently guide matters from initial document preservation and collection through to production and eventual presentation at trial. An area of particular emphasis is document review, for which Mr. Lichter applies well-developed protocols and procedures in staffing, training, project and vendor management, quality control, privilege review, knowledge transfer, and technology-assisted review to promote efficiency, mitigate risk, and gather reliable metrics for use in preparing accurate budgets. A frequent speaker and writer on e-discovery trends and developments, Mr. Lichter has delivered e-discovery lectures at the university of Pennsylvania Law school and Fordham Law school. Mr. Lichter’s strong technical background includes substantial undergraduate computer science coursework followed by experience as a software engineer for sapient, a leading technology services consultancy.

in 2009, he was named a “Future star” by Benchmark Litigation: The deﬁnitive guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys. Mr. Lichter graduated cum laude from Yale university in 2000 and received his J.d. from Harvard Law school in 2004.

Pepper Hamilton, LLP The New York Times Building 37th Floor 620 eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018-1405 212-808-2716 – direct [email protected] www.pepperlaw.com

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NCBJ CAmisHA simmons

Ms. Camisha simmons, a member of the Bankruptcy & insolvency practice group of Norton rose Fulbright, focuses her practice on the representation of debtors, creditors and other stakeholders in complex restructuring, bankruptcy, litigation and ﬁnance matters.

After graduating from law school, Camisha was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Mary F. Walrath, Judge of the united states Bankruptcy Court, district of delaware (Chief Judge from 2003-2008).

in 2013, Texas Lawyer named Camisha to its inaugural list of Legal Leaders on the Rise. The recognition honors Texas’ 25 most promising lawyers under the age of 40 whose accomplishments distinguish them from their peers. she has also been named a Texas Rising Star by Super Lawyers®.

Camisha frequently writes and speaks on topics related to her primary areas of practice. she has published numerous articles in various online and print journals. she is a contributing writer for the American Lawyer Media online news service Law.com and a coordinating editor of the American Bankruptcy institute Journal.

she holds a J.d., magna cum laude and an M.B.A. from Texas Tech university, an M.ed. from the university of Maryland, College Park and a B.B.A. from Campbell university. Prior to beginning her legal career, she served on active duty in the united states Army from 1999 to 2003.

Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP 2200 ross Avenue, suite 2800 dallas, TX 75201 214-855-7419 [email protected]

18 Chicago 2014 National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Thursday, October 9 | East Tower, Columbus GH | 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm born in THe usA: grown AbroAd – How differenT foreign JurisdiCTions resTruCTureNCBJ mAJor CorPorATe grouPs | nCbJ –insol JoinT ProgrAm JAmes H.m. sPrAyregen, P.C. moderATor

James H.M. sprayregen is a restructuring partner in the Chicago and New York oﬃces of Kirkland & ellis LLP and serves on Kirkland’s worldwide management committee. Mr. sprayregen is recognized as one of the outstanding restructuring lawyers in the united states and around the world and has extensive experience representing major u.s. and international companies in restructurings both in and out of court. He also has extensive experience advising boards of directors, and generally representing debtors and creditors in workout, insolvency, restructuring, and bankruptcy matters worldwide. He has handled matters for clients in industries as varied as manufacturing, technology, transportation, energy, media, and real estate. Chambers & Partners has described Mr. sprayregen as “a restructuring genius and one of the best strategists in the country.” Chambers said that clients it spoke to noted that he is “probably the best restructuring lawyer in the world.” Most recently, in 2014, Mr. sprayregen was described by Chambers as “the godfather of restructuring” and “one of the major stars of the industry.” in March 2010, Mr. sprayregen was selected by The National Law Journal as one of “The decade’s Most inﬂuential Lawyers.” in 2013, Mr. sprayregen was named “global insolvency & restructuring Lawyer of the Year” by Who’s Who Legal Awards, receiving more votes from clients and peers than any other individual worldwide. in October 2013, Mr. sprayregen was inducted into the TMA Turnaround, restructuring, and distressed investing industry Hall of Fame‎.

Mr. sprayregen joined Kirkland in 1990 and built its international restructuring group. He joined goldman sachs in 2006 where he was co-head of goldman sachs’ restructuring group and advised clients in restructuring and distressed situations. He rejoined Kirkland three years later.

Mr. sprayregen has led bankruptcy cases for numerous companies including united Airlines, Conseco, Chiquita Brands, general growth Properties, innkeepers usA Trust, Japan Airlines Corporation as u.s. and international counsel, The great Atlantic & Paciﬁc Tea Company, edison Mission energy, Msr resort golf Course LLC, Hawker Beechcraft inc., Cengage Learning, inc., sbarro inc., Visteon Corporation, Lear Corporation, The reader’s digest Association, Corus Bankshares, inc., Majestic star Casino LLC, and iON Media Networks, inc.

Mr. sprayregen is a frequent lecturer and speaker, and has published numerous articles on insolvency, ﬁduciary duty, and distressed M&A issues. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at the university of Chicago Booth school of Business, New York university school of Law, and university of Pennsylvania Law school. in May 2013, Mr. sprayregen was appointed to serve a two year term as the President of iNsOL international, the leading insolvency association in the world.

Kirkland & ellis LLP Partner, restructuring Chicago, illinois 312-862-2481 312-862-2200 [email protected] 19 Chicago 2014 National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Thursday, October 9 | East Tower, Columbus GH | 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm born in THe usA: grown AbroAd – How differenT foreign JurisdiCTions resTruCTureNCBJ mAJor CorPorATe grouPs | nCbJ –insol JoinT ProgrAm AdAm HArris

Adam Harris is a director of Bowman gilﬁllan and specializes in insolvency, business restructuring and related ﬁelds. He is a director of iNsOL international, and also served for many years as a national councilor of sAriPA (the south African restructuring and insolvency Practitioners Association). He previously chaired the Law society of south Africa insolvency Committee.

in the course of his practice, Adam represents lenders and creditors and other institutions such as professional indemnity insurers, as well as insolvency practitioners in various aspects relating to the administration of insolvent estates and the restructuring and winding-up of companies. Adam has attended to some of the leading cases on diﬀerent aspects of insolvency such as the constitutionality of interrogations, impeachable transactions, procedural aspects of liquidation applications and practitioners’ remuneration.

He is one of the co-authors of the latest edition of Mars, a leading insolvency text in south Africa.

Bowman gilﬁllan Africa group 22 Bree street Cape Town, south Africa 27-21-480-7837 [email protected]

20 Chicago 2014 National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Thursday, October 9 | East Tower, Columbus GH | 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm born in THe usA: grown AbroAd – How differenT foreign JurisdiCTions resTruCTureNCBJ mAJor CorPorATe grouPs | nCbJ –insol JoinT ProgrAm eddie middleTon

eddie’s career in insolvency and restructuring is now into its third decade. Beginning with a rigorous and robust introduction to the specialism in the uK’s Midlands’ industrial heartland before moving to London, the major part of his career has been spent in Asia, where he has now spent more than ﬁfteen years, primarily based in Hong Kong but also including two years in post-Asian Financial crisis Thailand. eddie also slipped in a year spent in Hungary working in the aftermath of the collapse of the Berlin wall.

eddie leads a practice that undertakes the full range of corporate and personal insolvency and restructuring matters, both in court and out of court, across all industries and across borders.

recent or current highlights include:

Lehman Brothers — Liquidator of Lehman’s HK entities

Vietnam shipbuilding industry (Vinashin) — Leading the KPMg team advising Vinashin on its us$600m foreign loan facility;

Titan Petrochemicals — Liquidator of Titan’s storage unit

evergrande — Leading the KPMg team advising certain lenders in this ﬁnancial restructuring

Asia Aluminum — receiver over shares pledged to PiK noteholders, then Liquidator of the ultimate parent company

Ferrochina — Financial Advisor to the Administrator appointed by the PrC bankruptcy court

Partner, KPMg China Head of restructuring services, Asia Paciﬁc Fellow, iNsOL international Fellow, ACCA Member, HKiCPA 852-2140-2833 852-9188-0738 [email protected]

21 Chicago 2014 National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Thursday, October 9 | East Tower, Columbus GH | 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm born in THe usA: grown AbroAd – How differenT foreign JurisdiCTions resTruCTureNCBJ mAJor CorPorATe grouPs | nCbJ –insol JoinT ProgrAm luiz fernAndo vAlenTe de PAivA

Luiz Fernando Valente de Paiva is the co-head of the corporate restructuring team of Pinheiro Neto Advogados. Mr. Paiva focuses his practice on Corporate reorganization and turnaround; bankruptcy; extrajudicial liquidation; recovery and renegotiation of debts; assistance and counseling to secured and unsecured creditors, financiers, lessors, debtors, investment funds, investors in distressed companies; structuring of contractual guarantees, and protection to creditors; civil and commercial litigation in general. He has stood out in recent high-profile cases involving the restructuring of Brazilian energy, food and telecom companies as well as the liquidation of financial institutions. He was a member of the interministerial Committee that drafted the Brazilian Bankruptcy Law. His affiliations include: Member of the Boards of iNsOL and iBr – instituto Brasileiro de estudos de recuperação de empresas, and former corporate secretary of iBr; founder and former member of the Board of Turnaround Management Association do Brasil; member of the World Bank insolvency and Creditor/debtor regimes Task Force that contributed to the project on "Treatment of insolvency of Natural Persons;" and member of the American Bankruptcy institute – ABi, among others. He has been recommended and awarded by virtually all renowned publications in restructuring & insolvency practice. He earned his LLB (1991) and LLM (2009) degrees from the são Paulo Catholic university. He is a former undergraduate professor at Brazilian universities and an invited professor to several bankruptcy law specialization courses in Brazil and abroad. Mr Paiva has authored several book chapters and articles on the Brazilian bankruptcy and delivered 200-plus lectures on bankruptcy law in Brazil and abroad.

Pinheiro Neto Advogados rua Hungria, 1.100 01455-906 sao Paola, Brazil 55-11-3247-8883 [email protected]

22 Chicago 2014 National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Thursday, October 9 | East Tower, Columbus GH | 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm born in THe usA: grown AbroAd – How differenT foreign JurisdiCTions resTruCTureNCBJ mAJor CorPorATe grouPs | nCbJ –insol JoinT ProgrAm mArK robinson

Mark is a Partner of PPB Advisory, a leading professional advisory ﬁrm employing over 300 people across Australia and New Zealand. Mark has successfully managed large and complex turnaround and insolvency administrations, ranging down to discrete family company matters and high proﬁle personal bankruptcies.

Mark is currently Vice President and Treasurer of iNsOL international. He is also a past President of the insolvency Practitioners’ Association of Australia.

Mark has a Master of Management economics (Project Management), university of New south Wales and a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting, Finance and information systems (with Merit), university of New south Wales. He is an oﬃcial and registered liquidator and registered trustee in bankruptcy in Australia and Fellow of the institute of Chartered Accountants.

experience and expertise

Mark has specialist experience in real estate and construction, government advisory and family owned businesses.

Mark’s recent signiﬁcant matters include:

• darrell Lea Chocolate (manufacturing, wholesale, retail and export)

• Kell & rigby (construction)

• reed (construction)

• Oﬃce of Fair Trading, New south Wales (government advisory)

• Trio Capital and Astarra strategic Fund (ﬁnance)

• Nauru Phosphate royalties Trust (real estate)

• Autogroup (automotive)

PPB Advisory 61 2 8116 3020 [email protected]

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NCBJ Hon. JAmes m. PeCK (ret.)

Honorable James M. Peck, former united states Bankruptcy Judge, co-chairs Morrison & Foerster’s global Business restructuring & insolvency group.

during his judicial career, Judge Peck presided over the chapter 11 and siPA cases of Lehman Brothers and a number of other major chapter 11 and chapter 15 cases. He has successfully mediated certain of the largest chapter 11 cases in the southern district of New York including American Airlines, MF global, residential Capital, general Motors and excel Maritime. Judge Peck is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, a member of the executive Committee of the international insolvency institute, co-chair of the ABi’s advisory committee on the Bankruptcy safe Harbors, an adjunct professor of ﬁnance at NYu’s stern school of Business, and a former member of NCBJ’s Board of governors. He is a graduate of dartmouth College and NYu school of Law.

Morrison Foerster 250 West 55th street New York, NY 10019 212-468-8094

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NCBJ bruCe benneTT

Bruce Bennett has represented debtors, creditors, and business acquirers in many of the largest corporate reorganization cases in the united states in the ﬁelds of retail, telecommunications, heavy industry, aviation, manufacturing, real estate, insurance, energy, banking, and computer technology.

Prior to joining Jones day in May 2012, Bruce was the lead lawyer for the Los Angeles dodgers on their recent $2 billion acquisition by Magic Johnson and other partners. He also was lead debtor's counsel in the country's largest municipal bankruptcy (County of Orange, California) prior to the City of detroit, which commenced following a $1.7 billion loss in county investment pools. As counsel to the debtor, Bruce was the architect of the plan of adjustment that comprehensively resolved the county's ﬁnancial problems. That plan was conﬁrmed and successfully implemented in approximately 18 months, and the related litigation resulted in the recovery of more than $870 million for the county. Other large debtor side representations include Ameriquest Mortgage Company, First Capital Holdings Corp., Hawaiian Airlines, L.A. gear, LTV Corporation, smartTalk Teleservices, Tucson electric Power, and Weststar Cinemas. Bruce also successfully resolved many other large bankruptcy cases for lenders, note holders, and equity interest owners, including Adelphia Communications, enron, Fountainebleau Las Vegas, green Valley ranch, Hawaii Medical Centers, Lehman Brothers Treasury Co., Olympia & York, and Tribune Company.

Bruce is a member of the American College of Bankruptcy, the Financial Lawyers Conference, and the board of trustees and executive committee of good samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles. He also is a former commissioner of personal and small business bankruptcy advisory commission of the California Board of Legal specialization and a board member of Public Counsel. reCenT eXPerienCe HigHligHTs • City of detroit ﬁles for chapter 9, largest municipal bankruptcy to date • Computershare Trust Company achieves win-win litigation settlement on behalf of Travelport senior noteholders Honors, disTinCTion • "Top 100 Lawyers in California," daily Journal (2012) • "Top 100," southern California super Lawyers (2006-2011) • Chambers usA (2008-2011) • Lawyer of the Year: runner-up, National Law Journal (1995) eduCATion • Harvard university (J.d. cum laude 1982); • Brown university (B.s. magna cum laude 1979)

JONes dAY® - One Firm Worldwide℠ Los Angeles +1.213.243.2382 [email protected] 25 Chicago 2014 National Conference Friday, October 10 of | Bankruptcy East Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 9:00 am – 10:00 am wATCHing THe Hedges grow: inside THe mind of disTressed invesTors

NCBJ mArK d. brodsKy

Mark d. Brodsky is the founder and Portfolio Manager of Aurelius Capital Management, LP, which manages hedge funds focused on distressed and event-driven investing. The Aurelius funds launched in January 2006 with $325 million of capital, over half of which came from pension funds, endowments and charitable foundations. At June 1, 2014, Aurelius managed about $4.3 billion and had been “soft closed” for a year.

From 1996 through February 2005, Mr. Brodsky worked at elliott Management Corporation, initially as a Portfolio Manager, and later a senior Portfolio Manager and member of the Management Committee. Mr. Brodsky began his investing career in 1994 when he joined dickstein Partners. Before then, Mr. Brodsky practiced corporate and bankruptcy law for more than 16 years at major New York City law firms, primarily Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel, handling corporate finance, acquisition and insolvency projects. Mr. Brodsky became the co-head of Kramer Levin's bankruptcy practice and served as a member of the firm's management and compensation committees.

Mr. Brodsky received M.A. and B.A. degrees from the university of Pennsylvania in 1974 and a J.d. degree from Harvard Law school in 1977.

Aurelius Capital Management, LP 535 Madison Avenue, 22nd Floor New York, NY 10022 646-445-6510 [email protected]

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NCBJ williAm Q. derrougH

William Q. derrough is a Managing director and global Co-Head of the recapitalization and restructuring group of Moelis & Company. From its inception in July 2008, the group has completed more than 150 restructurings (both out of court and in chapter 11) representing approximately $250 billion in liabilities, and is currently engaged in over 50 assignments across all industries representing in excess of $150 billion in liabilities.

From 1998 until 2008, Mr. derrough was Co-Head of Jeﬀeries & Company’s recapitalization and restructuring group where he focused on recapitalizations, restructurings, ﬁnancing and corporate advisory and led over 50 transactions representing more than $60 billion in transaction value.

Mr. derrough also served as co-head of the Jefferies’ New York office. Prior to joining Jefferies, he was a principal with the san Francisco-based private investment firm of doyle & Boissiere, where he was responsible for identifying and executing controlling equity investments in underperforming companies and assisting them in their operational turnarounds.

Mr. derrough began his career at salomon Brothers in corporate ﬁnance in 1988, and from 1991 – 1997 worked in restructurings at Chanin & Company, most recently as senior Vice President.

Mr. derrough is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, a Founding Member of the international insolvency institute and a Trustee of Bennington College. He previously served on the Board of directors of the American Bankruptcy institute, Lambda Legal and the National Pastoral Life Center. He is a frequent speaker, having served on the faculty for seminars and conferences of the Federal Judicial Center, American Bankruptcy institute, TMA, and various bar and industry associations. He is a graduate of the university of California, Berkeley.

Moelis & Co. 399 Park Avenue, Fifth Floor New York, NY 10022 212-883-3830 [email protected]

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NCBJ KenneTH liAng

Kenneth Liang is a Managing director of Oaktree and Head of restructurings in Oaktree’s Opportunities Funds group. Mr. Liang coordinates all restructurings of investments in Oaktree’s distressed Opportunities and Value Opportunities strategies. Mr. Liang has been active in numerous creditors’ steering committees, including the Tribune Company restructuring, as well as the restructurings of TCeH (TXu), Momentive, Cengage, excel Maritime, CiT group, enron, WorldCom/MCi,CharterCommunications and Nine entertainment Company (a leading TV network in Australia). Mr. Liang has worked with a number of Oaktree’s portfolio companies including the Tribune Company (media), Jackson square Aviation (aircraft leasing), Tekni-Plex (packaging and tubing manufacturer) and Taylor Morrison (North American homebuilder). From Oaktree’s formation in 1995 until June 2001, Mr. Liang was Oaktree’s general Counsel. earlier, he served as a senior Vice President at TCW with primary legal and restructuring responsibility for special Credits Funds investments and, before that, he was an associate at the law ﬁrm of O’Melveny & Myers.

Mr. Liang holds a B.s. degree in Business Finance and economics from the university of southern California and a J.d. from georgetown university Law Center.

Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. 333 south grand Avenue, 28th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90071 213-830-6422 [email protected]

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All THe CourTroom’s A sTAge: Honing CourTroom PresenTATion sKills NCBJ Hon. berniCe bouie donAld “Judge”

THe HONOrABLe BerNiCe B. dONALd was nominated to the united states Court of Appeals for the sixth Circuit by President Barack Hussein Obama on december 1, 2010, and re-nominated in January 2011. she was confirmed by the senate on september 6, 2011. Prior to joining the Court of Appeals, Judge donald served on the u.s. district Court for the Western district of Tennessee, where she was appointed by President William Jefferson Clinton in december 1995. Judge donald served as Judge of u.s. Bankruptcy Court for the Western district of Tennessee from June 1988 to January 1996. she was the first African American woman in the history of the united states to serve as a bankruptcy judge. When she was elected to the general sessions Criminal Court in 1982, she became the first African American woman to serve as a judge in the history of the state of Tennessee.

Judge donald received her law degree from the university of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys school of Law where she has served as an adjunct faculty member. she frequently serves as faculty for the Federal Judicial Center and the National Judicial College, and presently serves as the President of the American Bar Foundation.

An internationally recognized legal scholar, Judge donald has lectured and trained judges around the world for many years. Judge donald has served as faculty for numerous international programs, including romania, Mexico, Turkey, Brazil, Bosnia, Botswana, south Africa, Namibia, senegal, rwanda, Tanzania, russia, egypt, Morocco, Thailand, and Armenia. in 2003, Judge donald led a People to People delegation to Johannesburg, and Capetown, south Africa and traveled to Zimbabwe to monitor the trial of a judge accused of judicial misconduct.

Judge donald has served as President of the National Association of Women Judges and the Association of Women Attorneys. And in June 2005, Judge donald co-founded 4-Life, a skills training and enrichment program for students ages 6 to 15 designed to teach children to become positive productive citizens. Currently, she serves on the Board of directors of the stax Museum of American soul and the stax Academy Charter school.

Judge donald has been the recipient of over 100 awards for professional, civic, and community activities, including the distinguished Alumni Award from the university of Memphis, the Martin Luther King Community service Award, and the Benjamin Hooks Award presented in 2002 by the Memphis Bar Foundation. in 2013, Judge donald was elected to the Board of directors of the American Judicature society, and in August of 2013 she was featured in the Federal Lawyer Magazine. during the 2013 annual meeting of the National Bar Association, Judge donald received the William H. Hastie Award. The Hastie Award is the Judicial Council’s highest award and is presented to recognize excellence in legal and judicial scholarship and demonstrated commitment to justice under the law. in 2013, Judge donald also received the diﬀerence Makers Award from the solo, small Firm & general Practice division of the ABA, and the Pioneer Award from her fellow classmates at east side High. in January of 2014, Judge donald received the Justice William Brennan Award by the university of Virginia.

sixth Circuit Court of Appeals 167 North Main street, room 1132 Memphis, TN 38103

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NCBJ Hon. Ann C. williAms “Judge”

in 1999, Ann Claire Williams was appointed to the united states Court of Appeals for the seventh Circuit. she became the ﬁrst judge of color appointed to that court and the third African-American woman to serve on any united states Court of Appeals. Before that appointment, Williams served on the united states district Court for the Northern district of illinois. At 35, she was the youngest woman of color ever appointed to the federal bench

Judge Williams has a long history of service to the judiciary. she was the ﬁrst woman and judge of color appointed Chair of the Court Administration and Case Management Committee of the Judicial Conference of the united states, was the ﬁrst judge of color to serve as president of the Federal Judges Association, served on the supreme Court Fellows Program Commission and now serves on the Judicial Branch Committee of the us Judicial Conference. Judge Williams also has a longstanding commitment to education and training, both in the united states and abroad. she has traveled and continues to travel to Kenya, Liberia, ghana, rwanda, and uganda to train judges and lawyers on topics such as domestic and gender violence, judicial ethics, opinion writing, case management, alternative dispute resolution, and trial advocacy, and has served as a member of international training delegations teaching trial and appellate advocacy at the international Criminal Tribunals for rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.

Judge Williams has committed herself to public interest work and expanding the pipeline for minorities and women. in 1977, she co-founded Minority Legal education resources inc., which has helped over 4,000 lawyers pass the illinois bar at a rate that equals or exceeds the annual passage rate. in 1987, she helped found the Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Chicago. in 1991, she created The equal Justice Works Fellowship Program, which has placed more than 1000 lawyers in underserved communities. in 1992, Judge Williams co-founded the Just The Beginning - A Pipeline Organization, to help students of color and other under-represented groups to pursue legal careers.

Judge Williams has been the recipient of numerous awards, including being named by Newsweek daily Beast as one of 150 Fearless Women in the World (2012), the Leadership institute for Women of Color Attorneys, Breaking the glass Ceiling Award (2012), the Black Women Lawyers’ Association of greater Chicago’s Pioneer Award (2012) Chicago inn of Court’s Joel M. Flaum Award (2010), the American Judicature society’s edward J. devitt distinguished service to Justice Award (2009), the American Bar Association Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award and the National Bar Association’s gertrude e. rush Award (2008), and the Arabella Babb Mansﬁeld Award from the National Association of Women Lawyers (2005). Williams serves on the boards of the Carnegie Foundation of New York, the university of Notre dame, the Chicago Museum of science and industry, National institute for Trial Advocacy and the Advisory Council of JTB–APO.

Judge Williams began her career as a music and third grade teacher in the inner city schools of detroit after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Wayne state university and a master’s degree in guidance and counseling from the university of Michigan. she received her law degree from the university of Notre dame.

seventh Circuit Court of Appeals 219 south dearborn street, room 2602 30 Chicago, iL 60604 Chicago 2014 National Conference Friday, October 10 of | BankruptcyEast Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 10:20 am – 11:20 am

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NCBJ sHAy A. AgsTen “young gun”

shay Agsten is a shareholder at von Briesen & roper s.c. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. she focuses her practice exclusively on bankruptcy and creditor rights issues. she represents ﬁnancial institutions and other creditors in a wide variety of bankruptcy proceedings in the united states Bankruptcy Courts for both the eastern and Western districts of Wisconsin. shay also represents ﬁnancial institutions and other creditors in Wisconsin state court collection actions, including commercial foreclosure actions.

shay is an avid presenter and author on bankruptcy and creditor rights issues. she is a member of the eastern district Bar Liaison Committee for the Bankruptcy Court for the eastern district of Wisconsin, and a past Chair and current Program Chair of the Bankruptcy section for the Milwaukee Bar Association. she is an active member of the American Bankruptcy institute.

in 2012 shay was recognized as an “up and Coming Lawyer” by the Wisconsin Law Journal and since 2011 has been listed in Wisconsin rising starssM in the area of Bankruptcy & Creditor/debtor rights. shay earned her Juris doctorate (magna cum laude) from the university of Minnesota and her Bachelor of science degree (summa cum laude) from the university of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

von Briesen & roper, s.c. [email protected] 414-287-1564 411 east Wisconsin Avenue, suite 1000 Milwaukee, Wi 53202 [email protected]

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NCBJ TimoTHy J. drAgelin “eXPerT wiTness”

Timothy J. dragelin is a senior managing director in FTi’s Consulting’s Corporate Finance practice and a senior member of the ﬁrm’s real estate and structured Finance practice group. Mr. dragelin has provided ﬁnancial advisory services through in-court and out-of- court reorganizations and in troubled company situations in a number of industries for over 20 years. These matters have included, bankruptcy planning and management, turnaround consultation, interim management, lender advisory, buy-side due diligence, sell-side mandates, valuation, process improvement, forensic investigations, and litigation advisory, among others. Mr. dragelin’s engagements have included both Chapter 11 and 7.

He has provided services to various stakeholders including company management, the board of directors, equity holders, secured creditors, and unsecured creditor committees. Mr. dragelin has been the trustee of a financial trust and board member of a liquidating trust. He has also served in the capacity of a chief financial officer and controller.

Mr. dragelin has directed multiple engagements in the real estate, healthcare, construction, government contracting, and, structured ﬁnance industries, to name a few.

Mr. dragelin has been an expert in various matters including those related to real estate, valuation, construction, and forensic accounting in several venues. Mr. dragelin is a published author and frequent speaker on ﬁnancial topics. in addition, he has been a faculty member with Federal Publications, inc. seminars and a guest lecturer at georgetown university Mcdonough school of Business.

He is a member of the American institute of Certiﬁed Public Accountants and National Association of Certiﬁed Valuation Analysts. He received his bachelor of business administration in accounting from The College of William and Mary in Virginia.

FTi Consulting 214 N. Tryon street, suite 1900 Charlotte, NC 28202 714-972-4102 [email protected]

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NCBJ sTePHen e. Hessler “young gun”

steve Hessler is a partner in the New York oﬃce of Kirkland & ellis LLP. His practice involves representing debtors (including public, portfolio and privately held companies), creditors, and investors in complex corporate Chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructurings, acquisitions, and related trial and appellate litigation. steve has counseled clients across a broad range of industries including energy, gaming, hospitality and real estate, telecommunications, ﬁnancial institutions, and manufacturing.

steve is a frequent lecturer and author on various restructuring related topics. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Advisory Board on Administrative Claims, Critical Vendors, and Other Pressures on Liquidity for the American Bankruptcy institute’s Commission to study the reform of Chapter 11, and teaches a restructuring class each fall at the university of Pennsylvania to Law school and Wharton students. steve recently was selected by Turnarounds & Workouts as one of their 2013 “Outstanding Young restructuring Lawyers.”

steve is currently co-leading the representation of energy Future Holdings and 71 of its affiliates in their prearranged chapter 11 cases. With over $49 billion in liabilities and $36 billion in assets, eFH’s chapter 11 case is the largest operating chapter 11 case ever filed in delaware and the seventh largest chapter 11 case ever filed. some of steve’s other representative matters include: Charter Communications, inc., Majestic star Casino, uTgr, Leiner Health Products, inc., Calpine Corporation, and Collins & Aikman Corporation.

Kirkland & ellis LLP stephen e. Hessler Partner, restructuring New York, New York 212-446-4974 212-446-4900 [email protected]

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NCBJ ori KATz “young gun”

Ori Katz is a partner in the Finance and Bankruptcy Practice group in the san Francisco oﬃce of sheppard, Mullin, richter & Hampton LLP.

Mr. Katz specializes in business bankruptcies and other aspects of insolvency law. He has represented debtors, creditors, creditors' committees, parties purchasing assets out of bankruptcy and parties involved in bankruptcy litigation. He has successfully reorganized companies in a wide range of industries, including real estate, retail, construction, biotech, telecommunications, media and the internet. He has also represented lenders and loan servicers in connection with receiverships, loan workouts, restructurings, foreclosures and borrower bankruptcies, and acted as receivership counsel in connection with various appointments. Mr. Katz is a frequent speaker on matters relating to bankruptcy and insolvency law, and taught a seminar on Business Bankruptcy and Corporate reorganization at uC Hastings College of the Law in 2013 and 2014. recent speaking engagements include the Annual Southwest Bankruptcy Conference, presented by the American Bankruptcy institute (ABi), theCalifornia Receiver's Forum at the Loyola V Complex Case symposium, and the ABi's 25th Annual Winter Leadership Conference.

Mr. Katz is active with several bankruptcy organizations. He is currently a director of the Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum and a past co-chair of the Insolvency Law Conference’s California Bankruptcy Forum. He is also a member of the insolvency Law Committee, Business Law section, of the state Bar of California, and on the advisory board of the Annual Southwest Bankruptcy Conference, presented by the ABi.

Mr. Katz has been listed in Chambers and Partners, the Legal 500 and Northern California Super Lawyers.

sheppard, Mullin, richter & Hampton LLP Four embarcadero Center 17Th Fl. san Francisco, CA 94111 [email protected] 415-434-9100

34 Chicago 2014 National Conference Friday, October 10 of | BankruptcyEast Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 10:20 am – 11:20 am

All THe CourTroom’s A sTAge: Honing CourTroom PresenTATion sKills

NCBJ demeTrA l. liggins “young gun”

reLATed PrACTiCes Bankruptcy and restructuring

PrOFiLe

demetra Liggins has over a decade of experience in business finance and restructurings for a variety of large and small public and private companies. she helps navigate her clients through complex corporate reorganization and distressed acquisitions. she works on both in-court and out-of-court restructurings. demetra is highly regarded for her ability to quickly and efficiently help clients assess the effects of a bankruptcy on their corporate and financial transactions. she is a trusted business partner who works with her clients to identify and achieve their goals in the bankruptcy process.

eXPerieNCe • Working with financial institutions, public and private companies, partnerships, and private-equity funds, demetra has a broad range of experience. she helps clients both purchase and sell assets in distressed situations, secure financing, and negotiate structure and implement cash collateral orders and debtor-in-possession financing agreements on behalf of both a company and a financial institution. demetra also helps clients draft plans of reorganizations and with out of court restructuring. Her clients include health care systems, retail corporations, financial institutions, and oil and gas companies.

• demetra played a leading role in Thompson & Knight's representation of both Baseline Oil & gas and Cross Canyon energy Corp. Both bankruptcy cases involved pre-negotiated and packaged plans of reorganization (a "pre-pack") and both of the companies exited from bankruptcy in less than 60 days.

PriOr eXPerieNCe • Law Clerk, Honorable u.W. Clemon, Chief Judge, united states district Court for the Northern district of Alabama, 2000-2001

eduCATiON • J.d., 2000, cum laude, Cumberland school of Law, samford university • B.s., Business Administration, 1997, cum laude, Christian Brothers university

Partner Thompson & Knight LLP 333 Clay street, suite 3300 Houston, TX 77002 713-951-5884 [email protected]

35 Chicago 2014 National Conference Friday, October 10 of | BankruptcyEast Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 10:20 am – 11:20 am

All THe CourTroom’s A sTAge: Honing CourTroom PresenTATion sKills

NCBJ riCHArd l. wynne “Judge”

rick Wynne's practice focuses on complex restructuring matters, representing debtors, oﬃcial creditors committees, ad hoc committees, purchasers, and lenders in u.s. and international chapter 11 cases and out-of-court workouts. He has extensive experience in a wide variety of industries, including telecommunications, sports, real estate (commercial, residential, and hotels), transportation, insurance and ﬁnancial services, retail, food distribution, manufacturing, natural gas, oil and ethanol, as well as the entertainment industry.

rick's recent representations include FgiC, one of the largest creditors in the resCap chapter 11 case and Co-Chair of the Creditors' Committee; Ad Hoc Bondholders Committee in Chemtura; Non-Agent secured Lenders Committee in Adelphia; and universal and Fox as customers, rescue diP, and exit ﬁnanciers in the rhythm & Hues chapter 11 case.

Prior to joining Jones day, rick's debtor cases included Conseco, then the third largest chapter 11 case; Fleming, the largest u.s. wholesale food distributor; Chevy's chain of restaurants; Wendy's of san diego franchise group; Hollywood roosevelt, Westwood Marquis, and sir Francis drake hotels; and ddi, one of the top 10 restructurings listed in Turnarounds & Workouts magazine.

rick has signiﬁcant experience in valuation litigation in most of the litigated cases he has handled, and he has been lead trial counsel for the valuation trials in the Chemtura, resCap, ddi, Conseco, and Chevy's cases, among other representations.

rick is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and has been highlighted in Chambers usA, the guide to leading lawyers, in the past several years. He is a frequent speaker having served on the faculty for seminars and conferences sponsored by the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, American Bankruptcy institute, American Bar Association and Turnaround Management Association, among other bar and industry associations. rick graduated from Columbia university school of Law.

JONes dAY® - One Firm Worldwide℠ 555 south Flower street, Fiftieth Floor Los Angeles, CA 90071-2300 213-243-2548 [email protected]

36 Chicago 2014 National Conference Friday, October 10 of | BankruptcyEast Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 11:45 am – 12:45 pm wHose CAse is THis AnywAy? sHould A CHAPTer 11 CAse be run solely for THeNCBJ benefiT of THe seCured CrediTors? Hon. bArbArA J. Houser

Barbara Houser is the Chief united states Bankruptcy Judge in the Northern district of Texas. she received her undergraduate degree from the university of Nebraska with high distinction and her doctor of laws from southern Methodist university school of Law. she then joined Locke, Purnell, Boren, Laney & Neely in dallas and became a shareholder there in 1985. in 1988 she joined sheinfeld, Maley & Kay, P.C. as the shareholder-in-charge of the dallas office and remained there until she was sworn in as a united states Bankruptcy Judge in 2000. While at sheinfeld she led the firm’s representation of clients in a variety of significant, nationwide chapter 11 cases.

Judge Houser, who lectures and publishes frequently, is a past chairman of the dallas Bar Association’s Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate reorganization, is a member of the dallas, Texas and American Bar Associations, and is a fellow of the Texas and American Bar Foundations. she is a contributing author to Collier on Bankruptcy and has taught Creditors’ rights as a Visiting Professor at the sMu dedman school of Law.

she was elected a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and currently serves as a member of its Board of directors. she was also elected a conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference, an organization of nationally recognized experts in bankruptcy. The National Law Journal named her as one of the ﬁfty most inﬂuential women lawyers in America in 1998. After becoming a bankruptcy judge, she joined the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and has served as President in 2009-2010. in February, 2011 she received the distinguished Alumni Award for Judicial service from the sMu dedman school of Law.

united states Bankruptcy Court Northern district of Texas 1100 Commerce st., rm 1254 dallas, TX 75242

37 Chicago 2014 National Conference Friday, October 10 of | BankruptcyEast Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 11:45 am – 12:45 pm wHose CAse is THis AnywAy? sHould A CHAPTer 11 CAse be run solely for THeNCBJ benefiT of THe seCured CrediTors? ross m. KwAsTenieT

ross Kwasteniet is a partner in the restructuring group at Kirkland & ellis LLP. His practice is centered around the representation of distressed companies in all aspects of Chapter 11 reorganizations and out-of-court restructurings. ross also has considerable experience representing both buyers and sellers of distressed assets.

rePresenTATive mATTers • Cengage Learning, inc. — represented Cengage Learning, inc., a leading educational content, software and services company for the academic, professional and library markets worldwide, in its prearranged Chapter 11 case.

• Hawker Beechcraft ― represented Hawker Beechcraft inc., a world-leading manufacturer of business, special mission, light attack and trainer aircraft, in its successful prearranged Chapter 11 cases. The restructuring involved conversion of approximately $2.5 billion of bank and bond debt into equity, termination of two defined benefit pension plans, and a significant operational restructuring that eliminated jet production and focused on the Company’s core Beechcraft, defense, special mission, and customer support businesses. Kirkland’s work for Hawker Beechcraft was honored by the Turnaround Management Association as the “2013 Turnaround of the Year - Mega Company” and was selected by Turnarounds & Workouts as one of the most “successful restructurings of 2013.”

• Friendly’s ice Cream Corp. — represented a leading full-service, family-oriented restaurant chain and provider of ice cream products in the eastern united states, in Chapter 11 proceeding through which substantially all of Friendly’s assets were acquired by an aﬃliate of sun Capital Partners, inc. through a credit bid sale transaction.

• Local insight Media Holdings, inc. — represented the ﬁfth largest directory publisher and local search provider in the u.s., in its restructuring. At the time of its ﬁling, Local insight served more than 340,000 businesses across 42 states, Puerto rico, and the dominican republic, with annual revenue of more than $700 million. Local insight Media was selected by Turnarounds & Workouts as one of the most “successful restructurings of 2011.”

• YrC Worldwide, inc. ― represented one of the country’s largest LTL transportation businesses, with operations in u.s., Canada, Mexico and China, in a comprehensive out- of-court restructuring.

Kirkland & ellis LLP Chicago, illinois 312-862-2069 [email protected]

38 Chicago 2014 National Conference Friday, October 10 of | BankruptcyEast Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 11:45 am – 12:45 pm wHose CAse is THis AnywAy? sHould A CHAPTer 11 CAse be run solely for THeNCBJ benefiT of THe seCured CrediTors? Jeffrey n. PomerAnTz

Mr. Pomerantz is a member of the firm's management committee and is resident in its Los Angeles office. Mr. Pomerantz's practice includes representing companies, creditors' committees, and private equity funds in complex financial restructurings and merger-and- acquisition transactions both in and out of court. Mr. Pomerantz has particular expertise in restructurings in the restaurant and retail sectors. Mr. Pomerantz also has an active creditors' committee practice, having represented more than twenty creditors' committees during the last several years, including Circuit City. Mr. Pomerantz also frequently represents private equity funds in assetacquisition transactions. His practice is generally focused on middle-market companies with annual revenues ranging from $50 - $300 million. Mr. Pomerantz serves on the executive Committee of the American Bankruptcy institute where he serves as the Vice President of education. Mr. Pomerantz is a graduate of New York university (1986 Phi Beta Kappa), where he also received his J.d. (1989, Order of the Coif). He holds an AV Preeminent Peer rating, Martindale-Hubbell's highest recognition for ethical standards and legal ability, and was named a "super Lawyer" in the field of Bankruptcy & Creditor/debtor rights in every year since 2009 in a peer survey conducted by Law & Politics and the publishers of Los Angeles magazine, an honor bestowed on only 5% of southern California attorneys. Mr. Pomerantz has also been recognized as an outstanding lawyer by the preeminent publication Chambers usA every year since 2007.

Pachulski stang Ziehl & Jones 10100 santa Monica Boulevard, 13th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90067-4003 310-277-6910 [email protected]

39 Chicago 2014 National Conference Friday, October 10 of | BankruptcyEast Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 11:45 am – 12:45 pm wHose CAse is THis AnywAy? sHould A CHAPTer 11 CAse be run solely for THeNCBJ benefiT of THe seCured CrediTors? dAmion s. sCHAible

damian schaible is a partner in the insolvency and restructuring group of davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. He has worked on a wide range of corporate restructurings and bankruptcies, representing debtors, creditors, agent banks, lenders, asset purchasers and other strategic parties. Mr. schaible has played a key role in a number of high-proﬁle restructurings in recent years, including representing the debtors in delta Air Lines’, Frontier Airlines’, Pinnacle Airlines’ and Patriot Coal's successful chapter 11 cases, representing the agent for the prepetition senior lenders in the Tribune, Cengage, MediaNews group and C-BAss cases, and representing the diP Agent in the exide and NewPage cases.

Mr. schaible also regularly advises banks and potential investors in connection with distressed bank acquisitions and recapitalizations. Mr. schaible graduated magna cum laude from NYu school of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served on the NYu Law review. Following graduation, he clerked for Judge danny J. Boggs of the u.s. Court of Appeals for the sixth Circuit. He served as the Chair of the Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate reorganization of the New York City Bar Association, and he is on the Board of directors of the American Bankruptcy institute.

davis Polk & Wardwell, LLP 450 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10017 212-450-4580 [email protected]

40 Chicago 2014 National Conference Friday, October 10 of | BankruptcyEast Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 11:45 am – 12:45 pm wHose CAse is THis AnywAy? sHould A CHAPTer 11 CAse be run solely for THeNCBJ benefiT of THe seCured CrediTors? JAne lee vris

Jane Vris is a partner of Millstein & Co., an investment banking boutique headed by Jim Millstein. she has a dual role there, overseeing the ﬁrm’s legal aﬀairs as the general counsel and also participating in client representations. Jane’s main area of practice as a lawyer and banker has been corporate restructuring and bankruptcy for over 30 years, starting her career as a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, rosen & Katz. Jane has advised boards, special committees, creditors, potential purchasers of assets from distressed companies, and equity investors in companies emerging from Chapter 11.

At Millstein & Co., she assists on the firm’s representation of the first lien lenders at Texas Competitive electric Holdings in the energy Future Holdings Chapter 11 cases and on other matters in and out of court. she writes regularly on the latest developments in her field and is a frequent speaker at professional conferences and programs.

Millstein & Co. 1717 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, dC 20006 212-416-5801 [email protected]

41 Chicago 2014 National Conference Saturday, October of11 Bankruptcy | East Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 9:00 am – 10:00 am minding your business: mAinTAining foCus in modern lAw PrACTiCe

NCBJ Hon. Colleen A. brown

COLLeeN A. BrOWN has served as the Chief united states Bankruptcy Judge for the district of Vermont since April 10, 2000. she received a B.A., cum laude, with honors in philosophy, from Colgate university in 1979, and a J.d., cum laude, from Buﬀalo Law school in 1983. Prior to beginning her judicial service, Judge Brown was a partner in the law ﬁrm of Lawrence, Werner, Kesselring, swartout & Brown, LLP, where her practice focused on bankruptcy, both debtors’ and creditors’ rights, foreclosure, workouts, and bankruptcy-family law issues. she also previously served as Law Clerk to the Hon. Beryl e. Mcguire, Chief united states Bankruptcy Judge for the Western district of New York, as the estate Administrator in that court, as the Assistant united states Trustee for the Western district of New York, and as in-house counsel to The Canandaigua National Bank and Trust Company.

since being appointed to the bench, Judge Brown has served as chair of the ﬁrst Vermont rule of Law Conference (2008), as a member of the First Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (2002 – 2003), as an author for Collier on Bankruptcy 15th edition revised (2010- present), and as an associate editor of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal (2013-present). Judge Brown has been a member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges since 2000, and is currently serving her second term as the second Circuit representative to the NCBJ Board of governors, as well as serving on the NCBJ election Committee, the NCBJ-usT Liaison Committee, the NCBJ-NAWJ Liaison Committee, and the NCBJ Cost Containment Task Force. Judge Brown is a member of the National Association of Women Judges and co-chair of the NAWJ Federal Judges’ Committee. she is also an active member of the Vermont Bar Association, the rutland County Bar Association, and the American Bankruptcy institute. Judge Brown was the recipient of the New York state Bar Association'sPresident's Pro Bono Service Award in 1992 and of the Vermont Bar Association’s Pro Bono Service Award in 2006.

in her free time, Judge Brown serves on the board of Hunger Free Vermont, is a co- founder and leader of the CVuus sangha, practices and teaches iyengar yoga, and hikes and resides in Middlebury, Vermont.

united states Bankruptcy Court district of Vermont 11 elmwood Ave. Burlington, VT 05402-0724

42 Chicago 2014 National Conference Saturday, October of11 Bankruptcy | East Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 9:00 am – 10:00 am minding your business: mAinTAining foCus in modern lAw PrACTiCe

NCBJ sCoTT rogers

scott rogers, M.s., J.d., is founder and director of the university of Miami school of Law’s Mindfulness in Law Program where he teaches Mindful ethics, Mindful Leadership, and Mindfulness in Law. scott is creator of Jurisight®, one of the ﬁrst CLe programs in the country to integrate mindfulness and the law and broke ground introducing neuroscience research along with contemplative practices in the legal context.

A nationally recognized leader in the ﬁeld of mindfulness, scott has taught mindfulness to thousands of legal professionals including lawyers, judges, law students, law faculty, and mediators, and, since founding the institute for Mindfulness studies in 2004, has also introduced mindfulness to physicians, parents, accountants, business leaders, ﬁnancial advisors, therapists, and educators. scott founded and co-chairs the Mindfulness in Law Joint Task Force of the dade County Bar Association and Federal Bar Association (south Florida Chapter), and is a former chair of the education subcommittee of the dade County Bar Association’s Professionalism Committee. scott collaborates on neuroscience research exploring the enduring brain and behavior changes that may accompany mindfulness- training programs.

scott is author of “The six-Minute solution: A Mindfulness Primer for Lawyers,” “Mindfulness for Law students,” “Mindful Parenting,” and co-author of “Mindfulness and Professional responsibility. He lectures across the country has spoken at law and scientiﬁc conferences, appeared on television, HuﬀPost, and National Public radio, and been interviewed in newspapers and magazines for his work on mindfulness.

university of Miami school of Law 1311 Miller drive, Oﬃce A212B Coral gables, FL 33146 305-284-5527 [email protected]

43 Chicago 2014 National Conference Saturday, October of11 Bankruptcy | East Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 9:00 am – 10:00 am minding your business: mAinTAining foCus in modern lAw PrACTiCe

NCBJ PAul sTeven singermAn

Paul steven singerman is Co-Chair of Berger singerman and concentrates his practice in troubled loan workouts, insolvency matters and commercial transactions. Paul is active throughout the united states in large and complex restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy cases. His work in many cases has garnered the widespread respect of his peers. Although Paul is best known for his representation of debtors in complex restructuring cases, he is also experienced in representing creditors' committees, lenders, large unsecured creditors, asset purchasers in § 363 sales and trustees. Much of his work has involved companies with international operations or european or Asian parties-in- interest.

Paul’s most recent representations include the Official Committee of unsecured Creditors Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. (TBW). Prior to its bankruptcy, TBW was the largest independent mortgage originator in the united states. Headquartered in Ocala, Florida, TBW employed approximately 2,500 people across the united states in its main business and employed another 1,500 people in various subsidiaries. This case involves approximately $5 billion in claims. Additionally, Paul served as counsel to Judge Herbert stettin as Chapter 11 Trustee for the law firm of rothstein, rosenfeldt & Adler, P.A. This case is reported to be the largest Ponzi scheme in Florida history and involves approximately $1.2 billion in claims. The confirmed plan is expected to provide distributions to all non-subordinated general unsecured creditors representing the full amount of their allowed claims.

Paul is ranked in Chambers & Partners USA, America’s Leading Business Lawyers in Bankruptcy/restructuring (2003-2014) and recognized as a “star individual”. Paul is the only bankruptcy lawyer in the state of Florida in six consecutive years to receive Chambers’ highest ranking and is one of only 17 lawyers in the united states to receive a star ranking for Bankruptcy/restructuring. Paul is also ranked nationwide for Bankruptcy/restructuring and is one of two lawyers in the state of Florida to be included in the nationwide rankings for Bankruptcy/restructuring. Furthermore, Paul was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy in November 2002, and was inducted into the College on March 29, 2003.

Berger singerman LLP 1450 Brickell Avenue, suite 1900 Miami, FL 33131 305-714-4343 305-714-4340 [email protected]

44 Chicago 2014 National Conference Saturday, October of11 Bankruptcy | East Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 10:20 am – 11:20 am wAiT, wAiT . . . don’T Tell me! An eTHiCs gAme sHow*

NCBJ Hon. JAmes b. HAines, Jr. “emCee”

Hon. James B. Haines, Jr. (ret.) was a Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the district of Maine in Portland, appointed to the bankruptcy bench on Aug. 28, 1990 and serving until his retirement on Jan. 3, 2014. He served as Chief Judge of the First Circuit’s Bankruptcy Appellate Panel from 2008-12. Judge Haines has been appointed the edward godfrey distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the university of Maine school of Law for 2014- 15. He also served as a member of the Board of directors for the Federal Judicial Center from 2009-12 and as a member of the u.s. Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management from 2002-10. in 2009, he completed two terms as chair of the Federal Judicial Center’s Bankruptcy education Committee. Judge Haines is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of the American Bankruptcy institute, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Clerks and the Maine state Bar Association. Previously, Judge Haines served as judicial law clerk to Hon. eugene A. Wright of the u.s. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He was also an associate at davis, Wright, Todd, riese & Jones in seattle, an associate and later a partner at Hewes, Culley & Beals in Portland, Maine, and a partner at Black, Lambert, Coﬃn & Haines, also in Portland. Judge Haines taught at the West Virginia university College of Law and was granted tenure prior to his return to practice. He received his bachelor’s degree from Washington state university and, after serving four years of active duty in the u.s. Coast guard (Ltjg.), received his J.d. summa cum laude from Willamette university College of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the Willamette Law Journal.

Portland, Me 04102 [email protected]

*”Wait, Wait...don’t Tell Me!” is a federally registered trademark used with permission, courtesy of National Public radio.

45 Chicago 2014 National Conference Saturday, October of11 Bankruptcy | East Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 10:20 am – 11:20 am wAiT, wAiT . . . don’T Tell me! An eTHiCs gAme sHow

NCBJ Hon. A. benJAmin goldgAr

A. Benjamin goldgar received his A.B., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Brown university in 1979. He received his J.d. in 1982 from Northwestern university school of Law where he was a member of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. From 1982 to 1995, Judge goldgar was in private practice with the Chicago ﬁrm of Keck, Mahin & Cate.

in 1995, he joined the illinois Attorney general’s Oﬃce as an Assistant Attorney general in the Civil Appeals division, becoming a supervising Attorney in the division in 1997. He was appointed a Judge on the u.s. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern district of illinois in 2003.

united states Bankruptcy Court Northern district of illinois 219 south dearborn street Chicago, iL 60604

46 Chicago 2014 National Conference Saturday, October of11 Bankruptcy | East Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 10:20 am – 11:20 am wAiT, wAiT . . . don’T Tell me! An eTHiCs gAme sHow

NCBJ Hon. neil P. olACK

united states Bankruptcy Judge

Chief Judge for the united states bankruptcy court, southern district of Mississippi and the united states bankruptcy court, Northern district of Mississippi.

Neil P. Olack is the united states Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern and southern districts of Mississippi. Prior to taking the bench, he practiced law for 25 years in the areas of bankruptcy, creditors' rights, and workouts.

While in private practice, Judge Olack served on the board of directors of the American Bankruptcy institute and on the advisory boards of the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review and the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal. He was board certiﬁed in business bankruptcy law by the American Board of Certiﬁcation and was a member of its board of directors.

Judge Olack has considerable experience teaching bankruptcy, both as an adjunct law professor and an instructor in a masters of business administration program. He also taught at the graduate school of Banking at Louisiana state university. Additionally, he has been a frequent lecturer on bankruptcy issues for professional and continuing legal education programs throughout the united states.

Judge Olack is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He served as the Fifth Circuit governor for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges.

united states Bankruptcy Court southern district of Mississippi 501 east Court street room 4.350 Jackson, Ms 39225-5002

47 Chicago 2014 National Conference Saturday, October of11 Bankruptcy | East Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 10:20 am – 11:20 am wAiT, wAiT . . . don’T Tell me! An eTHiCs gAme sHow

NCBJ Hon. eriTHe A. smiTH

The Honorable erithe A. smith is a united states Bankruptcy Judge for the Central district of California, santa Ana division. she was appointed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1994 and was reappointed to a second term in 2007. in 2004, Judge smith was appointed by the Circuit to the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (“BAP”) and served on the BAP until 2007. Comprised of six bankruptcy judges, the BAP presides over bankruptcy appeals throughout the Ninth Circuit.

A native of Los Angeles, Judge smith graduated from Loyola Marymount university in 1979 and from Boalt Hall school of Law (Berkeley Law) in 1982. From 1982 to 1985 she served as law clerk to the Honorable Marcus M. Kaufman of the California Court of Appeal and to the Honorable Peter M. elliott of the united states Bankruptcy Court. Prior to taking the bench, she was a partner in a “boutique” law ﬁrm in irvine, California specializing in corporate insolvency and bankruptcy law.

in past years, Judge smith has served as an associate editor of the American Bankruptcy institute Law Journal, a member of the Judicial Advisory Council of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers (Orange County Chapter), and past president of the Orange County Bankruptcy Forum. Judge smith currently serves on the Bankruptcy education Committee of the Federal Judicial Center. in October, 2012, she was appointed by Chief Justice John g. roberts to the Committee on the Administration of the Bankruptcy system, a standing committee of the Judicial Conference of the united states. Judge smith is a frequent speaker and lecturer at various professional conferences, seminars and workshops.

united states Bankruptcy Court Central district of California 411 West 4th street, suite 5040 santa Ana, CA 92701

48 Chicago 2014 National Conference Saturday, October of11 Bankruptcy | East Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 10:20 am – 11:20 am wAiT, wAiT . . . don’T Tell me! An eTHiCs gAme sHow

NCBJ CHrisTine e. devine

Christine e. devine is a partner with Mirick, O’Connell, deMallie & Lougee, LLP, a law firm with offices in Worcester, Westborough and Boston. Ms. devine works in the firm’s Bankruptcy and Creditors’ rights department and has significant experience representing debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, creditors’ committees, commercial landlords and trustees in all aspects of bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court restructurings. Ms. devine is a member of the Boston Bar Association (Bankruptcy section), the American Bankruptcy institute, the Massachusetts Bar Association (Business section), and the international Women’s insolvency and restructuring Confederation. Ms. devine is a frequent speaker on bankruptcy topics and has participated as a panelist on numerous panels sponsored by Massachusetts Continuing Legal education. Ms. devine has also participated as a panelist at the Boston Bar Association’s Bench Meets Bar Program and at the Northeast Bankruptcy Conference of the American Bankruptcy institute. Ms. devine received her J.d., cum laude, from suffolk university Law school in 1994 and her B.A., cum laude, from the university of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1991. in 2006, the Worcester Business Journal selected Ms. devine as one of “40 under Forty” young professionals honored for professional achievement and community service. she is a member of the economics Alumni Advisory Board of the university of Massachusetts at Amherst and serves on the steering Committee of Women For uMass. she is also a member of the Finance Committee in Medway Massachusetts.

Mirick, O’Connell, deMaille & Lougee, LLP 1800 West Park drive, suite 400 Westborough, MA 01581-3926 [email protected]

49 Chicago 2014 National Conference Saturday, October of11 Bankruptcy | East Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 10:20 am – 11:20 am wAiT, wAiT . . . don’T Tell me! An eTHiCs gAme sHow

NCBJ TimoTHy f. niXon

Timothy F. Nixon is lead attorney for godfrey & Kahn, s.C.'s Business Finance and restructuring group (www.gklaw.com). Tim earned his master's and law degrees from the university of Wisconsin. He is a frequent writer and speaker on creditor-debtor issues.

He has been selected as a Top 50 Wisconsin SuperLawyer and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America®. Tim also served from January 2008 to January 2011 on the American Bankruptcy Law Journal editorial Advisory Board. in March 2009 he was elected to the American College of Bankruptcy and serves on the 7th Circuit Admissions Council. The Wisconsin Law Journal named him a “Leader in the Law” and the eastern district of Wisconsin Bar Association awarded him its prestigious Judge John W. Reynolds Community Building Award for his pro bono work. The Wisconsin supreme Court appointed him as an attorney member of their Preliminary Review Committee to review investigations involving ethics complaints against attorneys. He currently serves as the Committee’s Vice Chair.

For the past thirteen years he has been an associate faculty member, teaching classes in law, at the university of Wisconsin--green Bay. in addition to Wisconsin’s courts, he is admitted to practice, in the state of New York and many u.s. district Courts. Periodically, in between speaking and writing, he ﬁnds a few minutes to practice law.

godfrey & Kahn, s.C. 200 south Washington street, suite 100 green Bay, Wi 54301 920-436-7693 [email protected]

50 Chicago 2014 National Conference Saturday, October of11 Bankruptcy | East Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 10:20 am – 11:20 am wAiT, wAiT . . . don’T Tell me! An eTHiCs gAme sHow

NCBJ Professor nAnCy b. rAPoPorT

Nancy B. rapoport is the gordon silver Professor of Law at the William s. Boyd school of Law, university of Nevada, Las Vegas. After receiving her B.A., summa cum laude, from rice university in 1982 and her J.d. from stanford Law school in 1985, she clerked for the Honorable Joseph T. sneed on the united states Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then practiced law (primarily bankruptcy law) with Morrison & Foerster in san Francisco from 1986-1991. she started her academic career at The Ohio state university College of Law in 1991, and she moved from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure in 1995 to Associate dean for student Affairs (1996) and Professor (1998) (just as she left Ohio state to become dean and Professor of Law at the university of Nebraska College of Law). she served as dean of the university of Nebraska College of Law from 1998-2000. she then served as Nancy B. rapoport dean and Professor of Law at the university of Houston Law Center from July 2000-May 2006 gordon silver Professor of Law and as Professor of Law from June 2006-June 2007, when she left to join the faculty at Boyd. William s. Boyd school of Law she served as interim dean of Boyd from 2012-2013. she is currently serving as the university of Nevada Leadership development Academy Coordinator for uNLV. Las Vegas Box 451003 Her specialties are bankruptcy ethics, ethics in governance, law firm behavior, and the 4505 s. Maryland Parkway depiction of lawyers in popular culture. Among her published works are eNrON ANd OTHer Las Vegas, NV 89154-1003 COrPOrATe FiAsCOs: THe COrPOrATe sCANdAL reAder 2d (Nancy B. rapoport, Jeffrey d. [email protected] Van Niel & Bala g. dharan, eds.), which addresses the question of why we never seem to (c) 713-202-1881 learn from prior corporate scandals, LAW sCHOOL surViVAL MANuAL: FrOM LsAT TO BAr eXAM, co-authored with Jeffrey d. Van Niel (Aspen Publishers 2010), and LAW FirM JOB surViVAL MANuAL: FrOM FirsT iNTerVieW TO PArTNersHiP, also co-authored with Jeffrey d. Van Niel (Wolters Kluwer 2014). she is admitted to the bars of the states of California, Ohio, Nebraska, Texas, and Nevada and of the united states supreme Court. in 2001, she was elected to membership in the American Law institute, and in 2002, she received a distinguished Alumna Award from rice university. she is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. in 2009, the Association of Media and entertainment Counsel presented her with the Public service Counsel Award at the 4th Annual Counsel of the Year Awards. she is also a board member of the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law enforcement (the Mob Museum) and the Vice President for research/grants for the American Bankruptcy institute.

she has also appeared in the Academy Award®-nominated movie, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Magnolia Pictures 2005) (as herself). Although the movie garnered her a listing in www.imdb.com, she still hasn’t been able to join the screen Actors guild. in her spare time, she competes, pro-am, in American rhythm and American smooth ballroom dancing with her teacher, sergei shapoval. Currently, she is ranked 2nd in the country in one of her ballroom categories (9-dance). The most interesting thing about her is that she is married to a former Marine scout-sniper. The best way to reach her is to call her on her cell phone.

51 Chicago 2014 National Conference Saturday, October of11 Bankruptcy | East Tower, Judges Grand Ballroom | 11:30 am – 12:30 pm mAy you live in inTeresTing Times: THe suPreme CourT’s yeAr in bAnKruPTCy

NCBJ g. eriC brunsTAd, Jr.

g. eric Brunstad, Jr. is a partner at dechert, LLP where he serves as co-chair of the ﬁrm’s appellate practice group. He has argued 10 cases in the u.s. supreme Court, including matters involving bankruptcy, the First Amendment, fee-shifting, taxation, the Commerce Clause, statutory interpretation, jurisdiction, and arbitration. in addition to the cases he has argued, eric has worked on over 30 other matters in the supreme Court, including matters involving bankruptcy, federal licensing, civil rights, procedure, insurance, sovereign immunity, pensions, energy contracts, and defamation. He has also argued and briefed numerous cases in most of the federal courts of appeals, including matters involving insurance, setoﬀ, prepayment premiums, subrogation, and a variety of other commercial law and constitutional topics. eric has argued two en banc bankruptcy matters in the Third and eighth Circuits. in addition to his practice, he is currently a Professor (Adjunct) of Law at New York university school of Law, and a frequent Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law school where he teaches courses on bankruptcy, argument and reason, federal jurisdiction, commercial transactions, secured transactions, and international insolvency law. He began teaching at Yale in 1990, and has also taught at the Harvard Law school. He recently published a textbook entitled “secured Transactions, Teaching Materials” with his co-author, Jim White.

eric has been recognized as a leading lawyer in numerous venues, including Leading Lawyer in Appellate Law, The Best Lawyers in America, Connecticut Super Lawyers, International Who’s Who of Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers, and Leading Lawyer in Bankruptcy Law. His scholarly work has been cited or quoted by many courts, including the u.s. supreme Court.

eric’s arguments in the supreme Court include his argument on behalf of the petitioners in the Milavetz First Amendment matter, Milavetz v. United States, 130 s. Ct. 1324 (2010); the Marshall family in the Anna Nicole smith case, Marshall v. Marshall, 547 u.s. 293 (2006); his argument on behalf of Travelers in Travelers Cas. & Sur. Co. v. Paciﬁc Gas & Elec. Co., 127 s. Ct. 1199 (2007); and his argument on behalf of Citizens Bank in Marrama v. Citizens Bank of Massachusetts, 549 u.s. 365 (2007).

education Yale Law school, J.s.d., 2014; LL.M., 2011

university of Michigan Law school, J.d., 1986; Associate editor and Contributing editor of the Michigan Law Review

Connecticut College, BA, magna cum laude, 1983

Judicial Clerkship Hon. T. emmet Clarie, u.s. district Court, d. Conn., 1986-87

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NCBJ erwin CHemerinsKy

erwin Chemerinsky is the dean and distinguished Professor of Law, raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law at the university of California, irvine school of Law. Prior to assuming this position in 2008, he was the Alston and Bird Professor of Law and Political science at duke university from 2004-2008. Professor Chemerinsky was a professor at the university of southern California Law school from 1983-2004, serving for part of that time as the sydney M. irmas Professor of Public interest Law, Legal ethics, and Political science. He is the author of eight books, including The Case Against the Supreme Court (to be published by Viking in 2014), and over 200 law review articles. He frequently argues appellate cases, including several arguments before the united states supreme Court. Professor Chemerinsky is a graduate of Northwestern university and Harvard Law school.

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