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ABA
Joint Committee on Employee Benefits
The Sections of Business Law, Health Law, Labor and Employment
Law,
Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, Taxation and Tort Trial
and Insurance Practice
and The American College of Employee Benefits Counsel Present
Employee Benefits in Bankruptcy
Two
90-minute Teleconferences / Audio Webcasts
Wednesday, May 12,
2004
Part I: 12:00-1:30 pm ET / 11:00
am-12:30 pm CT / 10:00 am-11:30 am MT / 9:00 am-10:30 am PT
Part II: 2:00-3:30 pm ET / 1:00-2:30 pm CT / 12:00-1:30
pm MT / 11:00 am-12:30 pm PT
This program has
already taken place.
Audiotapes are available for $150.
For ordering information, contact Nancy Matthews at matthewsn@staff.abanet.org
or (202) 662-8640.
Ref. #JCEBT040512EBA
Successful bankruptcy reorganizations involve
not only physical assets but also the workforce that makes
the business operate. Liabilities for pensions, retiree health
and other benefit plans often have to be resolved before the
debtor can reorganize. Each recession brings new bankruptcy
decisions in those areas where ERISA collides with the Bankruptcy
Code. The current cycle is no exception. This two-part teleconference
will explore these issues at both a basic and an advanced
level.
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Part I: THE BASICS
Introduction to employee benefits
issues in bankruptcy. The speakers will discuss (1)
the Bankruptcy Code principles that benefits lawyers
need to understand and (2) the provisions of ERISA and
the Tax Code that bankruptcy lawyers need to understand,
so that each can understand how these issues may be
treated in a business bankruptcy.
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Part II: EMERGING SPLITS AMONG THE COURTS
Speakers representing a broad spectrum
(employers, unions, debtors, creditors and the PBGC)
will analyze recent decisions that have created splits
in authority on several key issues involving pension
and retiree benefit rights and claims in bankruptcy.
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Part I: THE BASICS |
Moderator
Nell Hennessy, Fiduciary Counselors Inc., Washington, DC
Speakers
Babette Ceccotti, Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP, New York, NY
William H. Schorling, Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling, Philadelphia, PA
Charles K. Kerby, McDermott Will & Emery, Washington, DC
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Part II: EMERGING SPLITS AMONG THE COURTS |
Moderator
Mark S. Wintner, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, New York, NY
Speakers
James J. Keightley, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Washington, DC
David R. Jury, United Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh, PA
Isaac M. Pachulski, Stutman Treister & Glatt, Los
Angeles, CA
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