ABI Teleseminar Series

1. ABI Teleseminar Series Business Bankruptcy I -June 15, 2 p.m. EDT

2. Andrew CainePachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young, Jones & Weintraub PC; Los Angeles Alec OstrowStevens & Lee PC, New York Michael RichmanMayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, New York George SingerLindquist & Vennum PLLP, Minneapolis, Minn. Deborah ThorneBarnes & Thornburg LLP, Chicago Speakers

3. Andrew CainePachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young, Jones & Weintraub PC; Los Angeles Andrew W. Caine is a shareholder at Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young, Jones & Weintraub PC’s Los Angeles office, where he is engaged in matters throughout the nation. He has had lead responsibility in litigation concerning a variety of business, bankruptcy and commercial law issues, as well as the representation of debtors, trustees, creditors and committees in chapter 11 reorganization cases. He handles matters in state and federal courts, with an emphasis on disputes tried in bankruptcy court, including avoidance actions and contested reorganization matters. Mr. Caine leads Pachulski, Stang's avoidance litigation and post-confirmation practice. He is ABI chairman and previously served as ABI's Vice President-Education. Mr. Caine has written numerous articles and lectures nationally on bankruptcy and litigation. He is also a former member of the Los Angeles Superior Court panel of business law arbitrators. Mr. Caine is a graduate of earned his B.A. at Northwestern University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Mortarboard, and his J.D. from UCLA. Back to Speakers

4. Alec OstrowStevens & Lee PC, New York Alec P. Ostrow is a member of the firm Stevens & Lee PC, New York, where he specializes in bankruptcy, corporate reorganizations, workouts, creditors’ rights and commercial litigation. He is an adjunct professor of law at St. John’s University School of Law in the LL.M. Bankruptcy Program. Mr. Ostrow is the author of several articles on various topics in bankruptcy law, including “Bankruptcy Adds New Vistas to Real Estate Landscape,” Journal of Corporate Renewal, vol. 17, no. 8, p. 16 (August 2004); “Qualitech and Sales Free and Clear of Leasehold Interests: Bankruptcy Process and Due Process,” NABTalk, Vol. 19, No. 4, p. 14 (2004); “The ‘Animal Farm’ of Administrative Insolvency,” 11 Am. Bankr. Inst. L. Rev. 339 (2003); “Free and Clear of Successor Liability or, Whose Liability Is It Anyway?,” 2003 Ann. Surv. Bankr. L. 119; and “Bankruptcy and Redundant Representation, or How Many Bankruptcy Lawyers Does it Take to Change…a Debtor into a Debtor-in-Possession?” 11 J. Bankr. L. & Prac. 227 (2002). Mr. Ostrow is a contributing author to a major treatise on bankruptcy sales. He has been a featured speaker at conferences sponsored by the American Bar Association, ABI, the New York Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Judicial Conference of the Second Circuit. He is the co-chair ABI’s Real Estate Committee and a member of the panel of mediators for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Ostrow is a magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College and received his law degree from New York University School of Law. Back to Speakers

5. Michael P. RichmanMayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, New York Michael P. Richman is a senior bankruptcy partner in the 200-lawyer New York office of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, and is ABI’s immediate past-president. He has served on ABI’s Board of Directors since 1996 and as Vice President-Development from 2001-03. He is also a member of the Creditors’ Rights Subcommittee of the New York State Bar Association’s Federal Courts Committee, and serves as a certified court-appointed mediator in the mediation program of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and the Commercial Division of the New York Supreme Court, New York County. Among his current and recent engagements, Mr. Richman appears regularly as a speaker and moderator at national and regional programs on matters of current interest (including post-confirmation issues in chapter 11 cases, the treatment of commercial leases and executory contracts under §365, new bankruptcy legislation, recent developments of national interest and asset sales under §363) and has testified on behalf of ABI before the House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law in support of a bill to authorize additional bankruptcy judgeships. Mr. Richman earned his A.B. at Vassar College and his J.D. with honors from Columbia Law School. Back to Speakers

6. George SingerLindquist & Vennum PLLP, Minneapolis, Minn. George H. Singer is a partner in the Minneapolis office of Lindquist & Vennum PLLP, where he focuses his practice on corporate and commercial law, including corporate finance, bankruptcy, workouts and commercial transactions. He formerly served as an attorney on staff with the National Bankruptcy Review Commission and currently serves as an adjunct professor at Law at the Hamline University School of Law in Saint Paul, Minn., where he teaches courses on secured transactions and bankruptcy. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Minnesota Corporate Counsel Association, ABI, the Turnaround Management Association, the Volunteer Lawyer's Network and Legal CORPS. Mr. Singer earned his B.B.A at the University of North Dakota and his J.D. with distinction from the North Dakota School of Law. Back to Speakers

7. Deborah ThorneBarnes & Thornburg LLP, Chicago Deborah L. Thorne is a partner at Barnes & Thornburg LLP in Chicago, where she concentrates her practice in the areas of creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, financial restructurings and commercial transactions, workouts, UCC foreclosures, restructuring plans and replevins of personal property. She is bankruptcy chair of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association, formerly served as chair of the Chicago Bar Association and as a member of the Chicago Council of Lawyers. She is on the web editorial board at ABI and a member of the board of the Women Employed Institute. Ms. Thorne received her B.A. from Macalester College, her M.A.T. from Duke University and her J.D. with honors from the Chicago Kent College of Law. Back to Speakers