Ethics Committee

ABI Committee News

Materials from the "Best Practices/Ethical Practice in the Region" Panel at the ABI Caribbean Insolvency Symposium

On January 18, 2008 the ABI held its fourth annual Caribbean Insolvency Symposium in Hollywood, Florida at the Westin Diplomat Hotel.  With almost 200 attendees, amazing facilities at the resort, numerous panels on relevant cross border and other topics and excellent speakers, it was a huge success.  Many thanks go to the Conference Chair, Trish Redmond, the Judicial Chair, Judge Robert Mark, and the meeting planner, Jennifer Aversano.

The panel on "Best Practices/Ethical Practice in the Region" received excellent survey results and featured a discussion of four different hypotheticals that presented challenging and thought-provoking ethical issues (note that the first three "hypotheticals" were actually real situations that some of the speakers had experienced!).  The moderator was Chief Bankruptcy Judge Paul G. Hyman (S.D. Fla.), Gregory H. Hodges (attorney in St. Thomas), Monsita Lecaroz-Arribas (Assistant U.S. Trustee in Puerto Rico) and Felicia S. Turner (ABI Deputy Executive Director and former U.S. Trustee).  Below are links to the materials (the hypotheticals and relevant ethical rules) and the Power Point used to set forth the facts, issues, citations and considerations.

View the "hypotheticals" from the Panel.

View the Powerpoint slides from the Panel.

 

ABI’s 26th Annual Spring Meeting: Committee Educational Session

ABI's 26th Annual Spring Meeting, the networking and CLE event of 2008, will be held April 3-6 at Washington, D.C.'s Renaissance Hotel in the Nation's Capital! Join us during cherry blossom season for exciting and informative sessions, including a luncheon keynote by Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.

The Ethics committee will meet on Saturday, April 5, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.