North Dakota (ND) Bankruptcy Law CLE Course Catalog

This panel will discuss notable Chapter 11 cases and legislation from the past year for an overall refresher and update on chapter 11 basics and trends.

This panel will focus on impairment, TransWest issues, third-party releases, horizontal gifting related to Noverra and more.

This panel will discuss subchapter V — whether there have been any notable filings, what to expect with this type of filing, what practitioners should be aware of, what issues are likely to be paramount, how practitioners should handle cases filed under this subchapter, and issues that creditors might need to know about — from the perspectives of the DOJ, the prospective appointed trustee and debtor’s counsel.

This panel will focus on the immediate and continuing repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy, with a focus on macroeconomic effects, how businesses have been affected, what efforts have been made by the federal government through various stimulus and relief packages, and what to expect in the future.

Our expert faculty will update you on a potpourri of automatic stay and discharge injunction violation issues, including the latest guidance from the Supreme Court on action vs. inaction, the return of repossessed cars and the collection of discharged debt.

This panel will discuss a potpourri of unique and interesting issues that present themselves in various out-of-court restructuring contexts. 

This session will highlight particularly interesting case law developments to date in 2021 and their impact on bankruptcy law and practice.

This panel will discuss issues that arise at the crossroads of sexual abuse claims and chapter 11, including the tension caused by using a financial reorganization tool to resolve highly emotional personal-injury claims, the stresses that cases of this ilk place on the Bankruptcy Code (including the uniqueness of claims bar dates in cases of this sort, nonprofit debtors and the absolute priority rule, and the propriety of third-party releases), and the use of mediation to globally resolve these cases.

Since the enactment of the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (H.R. 3311, “SBRA”), which took effect on Feb. 19, 2020, bankruptcy courts and practitioners have had opportunities to address a number of novel issues, interpreting and applying what are essentially brand-new Bankruptcy Code statutes. In this panel, we will discuss some of the key SBRA areas that bankruptcy courts across the U.S. are addressing, as well as the novel issues that practitioners are navigating.