Omar J. Alaniz

LAS VEGAS 2017 OMAR J. ALANIZ Omar J. alaniz is a partner in the Financial restructuring group of Baker Botts l.l.P. He is the Chair of the Texas State Bar’s Bankruptcy Section and former chair of the Dallas Bankruptcy Bar. He represents debtors and creditors in chapter 11 cases and has substantial experience in bankruptcy-related litigation and appeals, including appeals before the U.S. and Texas Supreme Courts. He was an adjunct faculty member at SmU Dedman School of law for several years, where he taught bankruptcy law courses and coached the Duberstein moot Court team to several national victories. He is also a frequent speaker and member of various planning committees for bankruptcy continuing legal education programs. Monday “Sandra Day O’Connor Award for Professional October 9, 2017 in 2012, he received the Service” in the U.S. Supreme Court at an event hosted by Chief Justice John G. roberts, Jr. in 2013, the national lGBT Bar association recognized him as a “Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40.” Rivoli A in 2013, the Texas lawyer honored mr. alaniz as a “Legal Leader on the Rise“ —a distinction recognizing only 25 lawyers under 40 in Texas. 12:00 – 1:00 pm Omar is a graduate of The University of Texas, School of law. CREATIVE WAYS Baker Botts l.l.P. TO INCREASE Dallas, TX THE POT AND MANAGE YOUR ODDS IN BANKRUPTCY SALES CONCURRENT SESSION Speaker Bios | Page 1 LAS VEGAS 2017 HON. CHRISTOPHER M. ALSTON CHriS alSTOn was sworn into office as a bankruptcy judge on June 30, 2015, by District Judge James l. robart. He filled a vacancy resulting from the retirement of Bankruptcy Judge Karen a. Overstreet. Judge alston maintains chambers in Seattle, Washington. Prior to taking the bench, Judge alston was a member of Foster Pepper PllC in Seattle, where he practiced since graduating from law school. He was the Chair of the firm’s Creditors’ rights and Bankruptcy group, and focused his practice on all aspects of Chapter 11 reorganization, bankruptcy litigation and commercial litigation emphasizing creditor/debtor rights, collections and realization proceedings. Monday Law & October 9, 2017 Judge alston was named a “Super lawyer” by Washington Politics each year since 2001, was listed in Best lawyers in america each year since 2007, and was included in Chambers USA legal directory each year since 2011. He is active in the aBa Committee on Rivoli A Business Bankruptcy, serving as co-chair or vice-chair of a number of subcommittees. Chris has been and remains active in the community, and received the United Way of King County’s Volunteer of the Year 12:00 – 1:00 pm award in 2007. Chris is a graduate of leadership Tomorrow (Class of 2000), a year-long program that prepares, challenges, and engages emerging and existing leaders through leadership development for the benefit of the Puget Sound region. CREATIVE WAYS TO INCREASE Chris received his J.D. from the University of michigan in 1989 and received his a.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and THE POT AND international affairs at Princeton University in 1985. Between college MANAGE YOUR and law school, he was on the staff of U.S. Senator Bill Bradley (D-nJ), serving as Special Projects assistant. Chris spends as much time as he ODDS IN can with his two young children, and loves to travel with them to BANKRUPTCY various spots in the Pacific northwest and around the world. SALES CONCURRENT U.S. Bankruptcy Court Western District of Washington SESSION Seattle, Wa Speaker Bios | Page 2 LAS VEGAS 2017 THEODORE “THAD” O. BARTHOLOW, III THaD BarTHOlOW is a partner at Kellett & Bartholow PllC, where he represents consumers in Chapter 7 and 13 bankruptcies, as well as in individual and class action litigation primarily against institutional creditors, particularly creditors in the financial services industry, including especially mortgage servicers, banks, debt buyers, debt collectors, and credit bureaus. mr. Bartholow received his B.a. in Philosophy from the University of Texas at austin in 1998 and his J.D. from the Benjamin n. Cardozo School of law in new York in 2002. He is a member of the new York and Texas State Bar associations, and he is admitted to practice before the U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Southern District of Monday new York and the northern, Eastern, and Southern Districts of Texas. October 9, 2017 Currently, mr. Bartholow serves as State Chair for the northern District of Texas for the national association of Consumer Bankruptcy attorneys (“naCBa”), and he was honored to receive naCBa’s 2016 Versailles 1 & 2 Distinguished Service award for his work litigating on behalf of consumers in bankruptcy. mr. Bartholow has also represented consumers’ interests on naCBa’s behalf at the nCBJ’s rules 10:45 – 11:45 am Committee’s “mortgage mini-Conference” in Portland, Oregon in 2012. more recently, mr. Bartholow was honored to participate in the american Bankruptcy institute’s “Great Debates” at the aBi’s annual Winter leadership Conference in Phoenix, arizona in 2015 and at the THE WOLF (OF aBi’s midwest Conference in 2016, debating the issue of whether debt WALL STREET?) buyers’ proofs of claims based on out-of-statute debts violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices act, an issue that is currently under AT THE DOOR: advisement at SCOTUS, in Midland Funding, LLC v. Johnson (Docket LENDING TO no. 16-348) ( Argued January 17, 2017). THE FINANCIAL mr. Bartholow is a frequent speaker on consumer bankruptcy and UNDERCLASS consumer litigation issues at local, regional and national conventions, including at naCBa’s annual conventions, as well as the national Consumer law Center’s conventions and a HUD presentation in Dallas, CONSUMER Texas regarding foreclosure issues for non-attorney housing CONCURRENT counselors. mr. Bartholow’s written work has been published by the aBi Journal and various online blogs, and he has been consulted by SESSION the media with respect to a variety of consumer and consumer bankruptcy issues, including by reporters at the new York Times, Credit.com, ProPublica, Bloomberg, and The Dallas morning news, among others. Kellett & Bartholow PllC Dallas, Texas Speaker Bios | Page 3 LAS VEGAS 2017 PROF. CARTER G. BISHOP CarTEr G. BiSHOP is a Professor of law at Suffolk University law School in Boston, massachusetts and a member of the american law institute. He was formerly a Professor of law and Director of the Graduate Tax Program at the mitchell Hamline School of law in St. Paul, minnesota. He has also been a Visiting Professor of law at several law schools including Georgetown, George Washington, Washington & lee, american, northeastern and Catholic and has taught in london, Paris and Sweden. His scholarship, as well as his speaking and expert witness and consulting engagements, embrace limited liability company, partnership, corporate, tax and bankruptcy law. Tuesday Professor Bishop is a co-author (with D. Kleinberger) of a prominent October 10, 2017 practicing lawyer treatise: limited liability Companies: Tax & Business law (Warren, Gorham & lamont) (1994), updated semiannually (also available at Westlaw “WGl-llC”). Prior to joining the academy, he was a partner with the minnesota law firm of Doherty, rumble & Butler, Rivoli A Pa and of counsel with Kaplan, Strangis and Kaplan, Pa as well as lindquist & Vennum, llP, both in minneapolis, minnesota. 3:30 – 5:30 pm Professor Bishop has extensive work on drafting and advising state bar associations and legislatures on the adoption and amendment of limited liability company and partnership state laws. He served as the Chair and Co-reporter (with D. Kleinberger) of the minnesota State 3RD ANNAUL Bar association drafting committee for the minnesota limited liability ABLJ—ABA Company and act (1993). later he was a reporter or co-reporter (with D. Kleinberger) for the Uniform limited liability Company act (1995), SYMPOSIUM the llP amendments to the revised Uniform Partnership act (1997), the revised Uniform limited liability Company act (2003), the GIVING COLLEGES Uniform Business Entity Harmonization act (2013), and an aBa Committee advisor to the Uniform limited liability Company Series A FRESH START: act (2016). USING THE BANKRUPTCY CODE TO RETOOL Suffolk University law School Boston, ma HIGHER EDUCATION Speaker Bios | Page 4 LAS VEGAS 2017 HON. COLLEEN A. BROWN HOn. COllEEn a. BrOWn has served as the Chief United States Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Vermont since april 10, 2000, and was reappointed to a second 14-year term October 2014. Judge Brown received a B.a., cum laude , with honors in philosophy, from Colgate University in 1979, and a J.D., cum laude, from the University of 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 matrimonial bankruptcy issues. She previously served as law clerk to Hon. Beryl E. mcGuire, Tuesday Chief United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of new October 10, 2017 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. Rivoli A Since being appointed to the bench, Judge Brown has served as a member of the Vermont Bar association’s Professionalism roundtable, Chair of the Federal-State law Council for the District of 3:30 – 5:30 pm Vermont, Chair of Vermont’s first rule of law Conference; Chair of the Federal Judges’ Committee of the national association of Women Judges. Judge Brown has been very active in the national Conference of Bankruptcy Judges since her appointment to the bench, including 3RD ANNAUL as the Second Circuit representative to the Board of Governors, a ABLJ—ABA member of two nCBJ Education Committees, Chair of the nCBJ’s U.S.

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