NABT 2025 Annual Conference

The panelists will cover essential strategies for effective trial preparation and presentation. This discussion will emphasize Techniques and Tips for courtroom procedures, leveraging technology, and making cost-effective decisions.  This will include guidance on structuring a case, developing narratives, key examination techniques, evidentiary issues and handling objections. Attendees will gain valuable insights into optimizing their trial approach, from start to finish, ensuring thorough and persuasive case presentations, and elevating your trial game.

One of the most anticipated panels at every conference, the Case Law Update highlights the most important, surprising and challenging decisions rendered by the Bankruptcy and Appellate Courts around the country. The panel scours the opinions that were issued since the last conference and looks for patterns, changes and new approaches to old problems to be able to present them in an interactive, interesting and thought-provoking way.

The panel will discuss a trustee's rights, duties and restrictions in recovering and monetizing the estate’s interests in closely-held limited liability entities and corporations. It will also discuss the legal theories and strategies used to recover assets from non-debtor entities, including trusts, such as veil-piercing and alter ego theories. This panel will only tangentially focus on conventional fraudulent conveyance theories used to recover transferred assets.

One of the most anticipated panels at every conference, the Case Law Update highlights the most important, surprising and challenging decisions rendered by the Bankruptcy and Appellate Courts around the country. The panel scours the opinions that were issued since the last conference and looks for patterns, changes and new approaches to old problems to be able to present them in an interactive, interesting and thought-provoking way.

This session will discuss how GenAI works, how GenAI can be used in the practice of law, and the various ethical pitfalls that can happen when lawyers don't understand how to use GenAI effectively.