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 jointly with the Real Estate Committee on Saturday, April 5, from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. and present a program entitled: "A Failure of Proof? The Mortgage Industry at a Crossroads."
The panelists will be Honorable Cecelia G. Morris, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York; Mary Daffin, Esq., of Barrett Burke Wilson Castle Daffin & Frappier, LLP, Houston, Texas; and Ronda Winnecour, Chapter 13 Standing Trustee (W.D. Pa.) Pittsburgh, PA.
The program will be moderated by Real Estate Committee Co-Chair, Alec P. Ostrow, Esq., of Stevens & Lee, PC, New York.
The discussion will embrace topical issues involving the sub-prime mortgage crisis, the clash between mortgagees and consumer debtors in bankruptcy court, and what happens when the lender's records are not in proper order. A stimulating discussion is predicted.