Hon. Frank Bailey U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of MA Boston, MA Frank J. Bailey was appointed on January 30, 2009 and he served as Chief Judge from December 2010 until December 2015. His chambers are in Boston and he is assigned to the Eastern Division. He was born in Kingston, New York, received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service (BSFS) in 1977 and his JD from Suffolk University School of Law (Boston) in 1980. He also serves on the First Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. Judge Bailey taught legal writing and research at Boston University School of Law from 1981 to 1993. In addition, he currently teaches the course in Business Bankruptcy at Suffolk University School of Law. Judge Bailey served as judicial law clerk to the Honorable Herbert P. Wilkins of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1980-81. He was an associate at the Boston office of Sullivan & Worcester LLP where he practiced in the litigation and corporate restructuring departments. He spent the twenty-two years as a partner at the firm of Sherin and Lodgen LLP where he served as the Chairman of the Litigation Department and as a member of the firm’s management committee. His practice focused on complex business litigation and business bankruptcy. He often represented clients in the medical device, pharmaceutical and high technology businesses. Judge Bailey was appointed by the First Circuit to oversee the financial restructuring of the City of Central Falls, Rhode Island, a rare Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy case. The City of Central Falls filed a contested plan of readjustment that was confirmed in a little more than a year from filing. Judge Bailey serves on the Board of Governors of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and was the chair of the National Conference of Federal Trial Judges of the American Bar Association ion 2016-17. In addition, he has served on the Standing Committee on Diversity in the American Judiciary of the Judicial Division of the American Bar Association. Speaker (Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know About Planning and Conducting an Evidentiary Hearing in Bankruptcy Court Wednesday, Oct 30 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Location: Capitol
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Hon. Frank Bailey U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of MA
Boston, MA
Frank J. Bailey was appointed on January 30, 2009 and he
served as Chief Judge from December 2010 until December
2015. His chambers are in Boston and he is assigned to the
Eastern Division. He was born in Kingston, New York, received
his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, School
of Foreign Service (BSFS) in 1977 and his JD from Suffolk
University School of Law (Boston) in 1980. He also serves on the
First Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. Judge Bailey taught
legal writing and research at Boston University School of
Law from 1981 to 1993. In addition, he currently teaches the
course in Business Bankruptcy at Suffolk University School of Law.
Judge Bailey served as judicial law clerk to the Honorable
Herbert P. Wilkins of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
in 1980-81. He was an associate at the Boston office of Sullivan
& Worcester LLP where he practiced in the litigation and
corporate restructuring departments. He spent the twenty-two
years as a partner at the firm of Sherin and Lodgen LLP where
he served as the Chairman of the Litigation Department and as
a member of the firm’s management committee. His practice
focused on complex business litigation and business
bankruptcy. He often represented clients in the medical device,
pharmaceutical and high technology businesses.
Judge Bailey was appointed by the First Circuit to oversee the
financial restructuring of the City of Central Falls, Rhode Island,
a rare Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy case. The City of
Central Falls filed a contested plan of readjustment that was
confirmed in a little more than a year from filing.
Judge Bailey serves on the Board of Governors of the National
Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and was the chair of the
National Conference of Federal Trial Judges of the American
Bar Association ion 2016-17. In addition, he has served on the
Standing Committee on Diversity in the American Judiciary of
the Judicial Division of the American Bar Association.
Speaker
(Almost) Everything You
Wanted to Know About
Planning and
Conducting an
Evidentiary Hearing in
Bankruptcy Court
Wednesday, Oct 30
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Location: Capitol
Leslie Berkoff Morritt Hock & Hamroff LLP
New York, NY
Leslie A. Berkoff is a Partner with the firm where she serves as Co-
Chair of the firm's Litigation and Bankruptcy Practice Group, as
well as Co-Chair of the firm's Alternative Dispute Resolution Group.
Ms. Berkoff concentrates her practice in the area of bankruptcy
and restructuring litigation and corporate workouts both
nationally and locally. Ms. Berkoff is a contributing editor for the
ABA publication Business Law Today. In addition, Ms. Berkoff
serves on the Board of Editors of Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law.
Prior to joining Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP, Ms. Berkoff served as a
law clerk to the Honorable Jerome Feller, United States
Bankruptcy Judge in the Eastern District of New York, from 1991 to
1993 and to the Honorable Allyne R. Ross, Federal Magistrate
Judge in the Eastern District of New York, from 1990 to 1991.
Ms. Berkoff speaks and publishes extensively and is a recognized
leader in her field.
Program Chair
(Almost) Everything You
Wanted to Know About
Planning and
Conducting an
Evidentiary Hearing in
Bankruptcy Court
Wednesday, Oct 30
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Location: Capitol
Martin Bienenstock Proskauer
New York, NY
Martin Bienenstock is chair of the Firm's Business Solutions,
Governance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group. Martin provides
clients with multidisciplinary solutions that draw on his combined
experience in restructuring, corporate governance,
reorganization, litigation, Dodd-Frank, and Sarbanes-Oxley.
Martin’s restructuring practice focuses on restructuring troubled
companies to benefit their investors or creditors. Martin’s
governance practice is targeted at keeping healthy companies
healthy and growing, and saving distressed companies, while
protecting directors and officers with cutting edge best practices.
Martin is repeatedly retained to solve momentous problems.
General Motors retained him to formulate the section 363 strategy
that he presented to the U.S. Auto Task Force, which deployed it
to save General Motors and Chrysler. He represented Enron in its
chapter 11 case that has now paid multiple creditors in full.
Recently, Martin developed the Colombian-U.S.-Canadian
reorganization plan for Pacific Exploration, supported by its bank
creditors and bond creditors. Martin routinely provides legal and
strategic advice to directors, businesses, investors and creditors,
advising on complex restructurings, acquisitions, trials and
appeals. Currently, Martin represents the statutory creditors’
committee representing unsecured claimholders in the Caesars
chapter 11 case. He handled the Owens Corning appeal,
reversing substantive consolidation to increase the value of his
bank clients' claims against Owens Corning from $600 million to
more than $2.2 billion. He charted the takeover of troubled
Finova for a joint venture between Berkshire Hathaway and
Leucadia National Corp and achieved the successful
reorganizations of companies such as Enron and Republic
Engineered Products over multiple objections. Martin developed
successful reorganizations for Capmark and AMBAC. He also
prepared the initial draft of what became Ireland’s
reorganization statute. Martin is currently representing, among
other entities, the Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico
and the statutory creditors' committee of SIGA Technologies.
For the last nine years, The National Law Journal listed Martin as
one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America." He has been
listed at the top of his field by other leading legal publications
and organizations, including Turnarounds & Workouts, The
International Who's Who of Business Lawyers and Euromoney
Legal Media Group's "The Best of the Best."
Program
Chair/Moderator
Current Developments
Friday, Nov 1
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Archives
Andrew Bloch Cross, Pennamped, Woolsey, & Glazier
Carmel, IN
Andrew R. Bloch is a Certified Family Law Specialist (Family Law
Certification Board), Registered Family Law Mediator, Trained
Family Law Arbitrator, Trained Guardian Ad Litem, and Trained in
Collaborative Family Law (CIACP). He received his B.S.B.A. in
Information Systems from Xavier University and his J.D. from Robert McKinney School of Law, where he was also awarded the
Norman Lefstein Award of Excellence. Since graduating from law
school, Drew has been named a "Super Lawyer" in 2019 as well as
a “Rising Star” in the area of Family Law in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013,
2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, as published in Indianapolis
Monthly. He is a member of the: Hamilton County Bar Association
(Family Law Local Rules Committee); Indianapolis Bar Association
(Family Law Executive Committee); Indiana State Bar Association
(Family Law Executive Committee); and the American Bar
Association (Chair of the Bankruptcy Committee- Family Law
Section). He previously served as a member of the Muncie Bar
Association (Executive Committee) and was a member of the
Ratliff-Cox Inns of Court.
Drew also serves on the Board of the Indiana Continuing Legal
Education Forum (ICLEF). Drew is a sought-after presenter for a
number of bar associations and a featured
speaker on a variety Family Law topics across the state of
Indiana. As a Partner at Cross, Pennamped, Woolsey & Glazier,
P.C., he devotes 100% of his practice to family law. Before joining
Cross, Pennamped, Woolsey & Glazier, P.C.
Drew served as a Commissioner in the Marion Circuit Court –
Paternity Division, hearing custody, visitation, and child support
cases. In addition to his service on the Board of ICLEF, Drew serves
as the Indianapolis Alumni Chapter President for Xavier University
and is a member of the Lew Hirt Society. He also is Board Member
at the Indianapolis Academy of Excellence, where he serves on
the Governance Committee.
Speaker
When Worlds Collide:
How to Represent the Pro
Bono Client When
Bankruptcy is Only Part of
the Solution
Wednesday, Oct 30
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM
Location: Archives
Ogonna Brown Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie
Las Vegas, NV
Ogonna Brown is a partner in the firm's Bankruptcy and
Litigation practice group, focusing her practice on creditors’
rights, secured party representation, trustee and receivership
matters and commercial litigation. Since 2002, after she
completed her clerkship for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,
Ogonna has been involved as counsel in complex business
and bankruptcy disputes, and she often appears in both state
and bankruptcy court for the same case when one of the
party’s seeks bankruptcy relief, resulting in efficiency for her
clients. Ogonna’s bankruptcy practice includes motions to
terminate the automatic stay under 11 U.S.C. § 362,
defending claim objections, oppositions to plans of
reorganization, competing plans, trustee representation in
Chapter 11 matters, motions to protect her clients’ cash
collateral, and objecting to the dischargeability of creditor’s
debts under 11 U.S.C. § 523 and various other adversary
matters.
Ogonna also enjoys community outreach through her pro
bono efforts, and likewise serves on the Bankruptcy local rules
committee, and recently served on the Merit Screening
Committee for Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Nevada in
2019.
Speaker
Current Developments
Friday, Nov 1
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Archives
Hon. Kevin J. Carey United States Bankruptcy Court
Wilmington, DE
Judge Carey was first appointed to the Bankruptcy Court for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 2001, and, since 2005, has
served on the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (as
chief judge from 2008-2011). Judge Carey is on the Executive
Committee of the Board of the American Bankruptcy Institute
and serves as Vice President of Membership. He is a past Global
Chairman of the Turnaround Management Association and is an
honorary member of the Turnaround, Restructuring and
Distressed Investing Hall of Fame. Judge Carey is a Fellow of the
American College of Bankruptcy. He is a member of the
National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and also serves as
an associate editor for the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. He
is the Third Circuit representative on the Administrative Office’s
Bankruptcy Judges Advisory Group and a member of the Third
Circuit Judicial Council’s Facilities and Security Committee. He is
a contributing author to Collier on Bankruptcy and Collier Forms
Manual. Judge Carey is also a part-time adjunct professor in the
LL.M. in Bankruptcy program at St. John’s University School of
Law in New York City, New York and at Temple University’s
Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He began
his legal career in 1979 as law clerk to Bankruptcy Judge Thomas
M. Twardowski, and then served as Clerk of Court of the
Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Judge
Carey received his J.D. in 1979 from the Villanova University
School of Law and his B.A. in 1976 from The Pennsylvania State
University.
Speaker
Shopping for Debt: Buyer
Beware of Good Deals
Friday, Nov 1
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Archives
Sidney Cherubin Brooklyn Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project
Brooklyn, NY
Sidney Cherubin, Esq., is the Director of Legal Services of the
Brooklyn Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project. He is also
an Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn Law School where he teaches
the NY Civil Consumer Law Clinic. He was an Attorney, Brooklyn
Site Director and Acting Legal Director while employed at The
Family Center from August 2002 until August 2007 where he
gained a great deal of experience representing families
affected by a terminal illness with regard to all aspects of
planning for the future well-being of the children in the families.
These services include drafting guardianship and standby
guardianship papers and representing parents and caregivers
in court; executing wills, powers of attorney, health care proxies,
living wills, uncontested divorces and Article 17A Guardianships.
As the Director of Legal Services of the VLP, Sidney supervises
the Family Law, Bankruptcy, Guardianship, Matrimonial,
Foreclosure and Consumer Debt practice. Sidney oversees and
supervises the Kings County Civil Court CLARO and Volunteer
Lawyers for the Day Projects. He is an active member of the
Civil Law Advice and Referral Office (CLARO) Council, a co-
chair of Brooklyn Bar Association Pro Bono Committee and
Special Events Committee and Brooklyn Bar Association
Judiciary Committee, member of the New York City Bar
Association Civil Court Committee.
Speaker
When Worlds Collide:
How to Represent the Pro
Bono Client When
Bankruptcy is Only Part of
the Solution
Wednesday, Oct 30
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM
Location: Archives
Michael R. Enright Robinson & Cole
Hartford, CT
Mike Enright co-chairs Robinson & Cole LLP’s Bankruptcy and
Creditors’ Rights Team. For over 35 years, he has represented
debtors, committees, creditors, and other interested parties in
the business bankruptcy and workout process and in
bankruptcy litigation. In the insolvency area, his work also
includes preference, fraudulent transfer, and other bankruptcy
litigation analysis and defense. Mr. Enright has extensive
experience guiding clients through bankruptcy filings, including
reorganization and liquidation.
Mr. Enright recently represented a global fuel oil supplier in its
Chapter 11 case, including negotiation and confirmation of its
plans, which included providing for a substantial distribution to
creditors. Mr. Enright also routinely represents secured creditors,
creditors’ committees, and other creditors. He recently assisted
a major global corporation in safeguarding its financial interests
following a customer’s Chapter 11 filing.
Mr. Enright participates as a member of the American Bar
Association's (ABA) Business Bankruptcy Committee, speaking
annually on current developments in bankruptcy for the Task
Force on Current Developments. He writes frequently on
bankruptcy related topics, including for practice guides and