Total Credits: .80 including .80 CLE
This seminar will discuss extending and imposing the automatic stay, statutory language, standing requirements for filing motions for relief, confirmation issues faced by secured creditors and more.
| Seminar Handout (14.2 MB) | 76 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Rebekah Beal began her career as a Bankruptcy law clerk for Judge William R. Sawyer in the Middle District from 2006-2008. She worked as a creditors’ rights attorney at the Stephens Millirons from 2008 until 2022. She currently holds the position of Supervising Attorney at Padgett Law Group, representing secured creditors in all of the Alabama Bankruptcy Courts.
Mr. Harrison received his undergraduate degree from the University of Montevallo. He earned his J.D. from The Birmingham School of Law while working at AmSouth Bank and SouthTrust Bank in the bankruptcy and foreclosure departments. After being admitted to the Alabama State Bar in 1997, Mr. Harrison worked at Bond, Botes, Sykstus, Larsen & Hatcher for two years in Huntsville, AL. For the last 25 years Mr. Harrison's practice at Key, Greer, Harrison & Casey has focused on representing secured and unsecured lenders in a wide variety of consumer and commercial litigation matters that arise in bankruptcy proceedings involving creditors' rights or creditor liability issues. Mr. Harrison is admitted to practice in the Northern District of Alabama, Middle District of Alabama, Southern District of Alabama and the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Mr. Harrison is a member of the Alabama State Bar, member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, co-chair and chairman of the Tuscaloosa Bankruptcy Bar Association. He serves on the Westem Division Bankruptcy Bar Committee. He frequently lectures on bankruptcy law issues regarding secured creditor practices and legal standards regarding discharging student loan obligations.
Mr. Spina is a 1985 graduate of Auburn University with a B. S. in Accounting and a 1988 graduate of Cumberland School of Law at Samford University. He was admitted to the Alabama State Bar in 1988 and the Tennessee State Bar in 2006. He is licensed to practice before all Alabama and Tennessee state courts, the United States District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Alabama, the Eastern, Western and Middle Districts of Tennessee as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Mr. Spina is a member of the Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section of the Alabama State Bar, the Creditor’s Rights Section of the Tennessee Bar, the Bankruptcy and Commercial Law section of the Birmingham Bar Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, and an associate member of the National Association of the Chapter Thirteen Trustees. He has worked exclusively in the representation of creditor rights in bankruptcy and state courts throughout Alabama since 1988. Paul may be contacted at pspina@spinalavelle.com.
