Contra Costa County Bar Association
CCCBA Bankruptcy Section is sponsoring:
2018 East Bay Bankruptcy Symposium
Friday, September 14, 12:00 pm – 4:45 pm
Registration Form & Program Details
The annual ACBA East Bay Bankruptcy Symposium is a half-day program designed for bankruptcy practitioners to keep up to date with the latest developments in the field. Co-sponsored by the ACBA and the CCCBA, the program features Bankruptcy Judges, Trustees, and an expert on bias.
Box Lunch Provided.
CCCBA MEMBERS please use code CCCBABANK when you register for the discounted $50.00 rate.
Register HERE
Schedule
12:00PM -12:30PM (check in and lunch)
12:30PM - 2:00PM (1.5 hours): First Panel: View from the Bench
Speakers: Chief Judge Roger Efremsky; Judge Charles Novack
Judges will provide the latest updates regarding bankruptcy practice in the Northern District of California, changes to procedures, attorney fee structure, conduit plans, best practices, and discuss chapter 11 cases for individuals.
2:00PM - 2:15PM Break
2:15PM - 3:15PM (1 hour): Second Panel: Hot Topics from the United States Trustee
Speakers: Tim Laffredi, Assistant United States Trustee, Region 17 - Northern
District of California; Donna S. Tamanaha, Assistant U.S. Trustee for the Office of the United States Trustee, Region 17; and Greg Powell, Assistant United States Trustee for the Fresno and Sacramento Offices of the United States Trustee
Hot topics in consumer bankruptcy cases, highlights and best practices, employment, fee applications, red flags during intake, rise in fraudulent schemes, and chapter 11 cases for individuals.
3:15PM - 3:30PM Break
3:30PM - 4:40PM (1 hour): Third Panel: Gender Bias
Speaker: Leslie Levy, Levy Vinick Burrell Hyams LLP
Ms. Levy will present on our implicit biases, recognizing bias and elimination of bias.
Speaker Bios
Chief Judge Roger Efremsky earned his BS from Menlo College and his JD from Santa Clara University. He was appointed United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of California in 2006. Prior to his appointment, he was the founder and partner of Efremsky & Nagel (1990-2006) specializing in representing creditors in federal bankruptcy and state court proceedings with an emphasis on the representation of secured creditors in consumer and commercial matters.
Judge Charles Novack has served as a United States Bankruptcy Judge in the Northern District of California since May 2010. He regularly lectures on a variety of bankruptcy topics, has been a guest lecturer for the Rutter Group on bankruptcy family law issues, and is a panel member on the Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum’s popular Consumer Update annual program. Prior to his appointment, Judge Novack was a sole practitioner in Oakland, representing Chapter 7 trustees, debtors, creditors and other interested parties in Chapter 7, 11 and 13 cases. From 1994 until 2005 he was an associate and then a partner at the Oakland bankruptcy boutique firm of Kornfield, Paul & Nyberg. Judge Novack also served as an associate professor at California State University, East Bay.
Timothy S. Laffredi is the Assistant United States Trustee for the Northern District of California (San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose field offices) in Region 17. He received his B.A. from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and his J.D. from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Upon graduating from law school, Mr. Laffredi began his career in a two-year clerkship with the Honorable Susan V. Kelley in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Mr. Laffredi then joined the United States Trustee Program through the Department of Justice Attorney General’s Honors Program in the Orlando field office. Mr. Laffredi represented the Program as a Trial Attorney in the Orlando and Jacksonville Divisions of the Middle District of Florida for nearly ten years, and in July 2016, moved across the country to become an AUST in Region 17.
Leslie Levy, along with her women colleagues at Levy Vinick Burrell Hyams LLP, represent plaintiffs in discrimination and harassment lawsuits. Her record includes pioneering lawsuits in numerous areas of civil rights. Leslie has been recognized as one of Northern California’s Super Lawyers from 2005 to the present, is a member of American Board of Trial Advocates, is the recipient of Equal Rights Advocates Gender Justice Honoree award as well as California Women Lawyers prestigious Fay Stender award. She has authored articles, contributed chapters to legal reference books and practice manuals, and drafted California civil rights legislation. She is the recipient of the Hastings College of Law’s Clara Foltz Award for distinguished service to women. She is a graduate of Hastings College of the Law, and has a Philosophy degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
Greg Powell is the Assistant United States Trustee for the Fresno and Sacramento Offices of the United States Trustee. Mr. Powell joined the U.S. Trustee Program in 2007 as a Trial Attorney. Mr. Powell is a 1995 graduate of San Joaquin College of Law. Initially, Mr. Powell was in private practice in Fresno representing clients in insolvency, intellectual property, transactional and business litigation matters. And beginning in 2000, Mr. Powell’s private practice focused primarily on representing debtors in business bankruptcy cases, as well as creditors, committees and bankruptcy trustees.
Donna S. Tamanaha is an Assistant U.S. Trustee for the Office of the United States Trustee, Region 17, in San Francisco, California. She previously served as the Assistant U.S. Trustee for the San Francisco and Oakland field offices. Before that she was a trial attorney in the Sacramento and Milwaukee Offices of the United States Trustee. She began her legal career clerking for the Honorable Charles N. Clevert, Jr. Ms. Tamanaha has made a number of presentations on different topics over the years to various bar associations, chapter 7 and Standing Chapter 13 trustees, state and federal agencies, as well as internal training within the United States Trustee Program. She received her B.A. and J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MCLE Credits
| Elimination of Bias |
1 hr |
| General |
2.5 hr |
