Total Credits: .80 including .80 CLE
This seminar will discuss recent Subchapter V cases and comparisons with Chapter 13 cases and will offer hypothetical cases and how best to handle them.
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Steve Altmann is a bankruptcy attorney representing debtors and creditors in Chapter 7, Chapter 11 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy matters. He is a graduate of the Cumberland School of Law and is licensed to practice in both Alabama and Georgia. He is admitted to practice before the United States Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama as well as the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Steve serves on the Panel of Small Business Reorganization Act (“SBRA”) Trustees for the Northern District of Alabama and is a member of the Birmingham Bar Association (Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section). He has been named a Super Lawyer in Alabama and recognized in the Birmingham Magazine by his peers as a Top Attorney in the area of Bankruptcy Law.
Bill Bensinger focuses his practice on commercial dispute litigation, bankruptcy and restructuring litigation. He represents creditors, franchisors, landlords, unsecured creditors’ committees and financial institutions in a wide variety of matters, including preference and avoidance actions, workout transactions and insolvency matters.
Bill represents franchisors in bankruptcy, including matters concerning the assumption of franchise agreements, and represents landlords in bank matters concerning the assumption of commercial leases. His work on behalf of financial institutions includes general creditor’s rights litigation, collection, lien enforcement, cash collateral, relief from stay, and plan confirmation issues. He is aa 1998 graduate of Samford University and received his J.D. from Cumberland School of Law and his Masters of Law in Bankruptcy from St. John’s University School of Law.
Chris Hawkins was sworn in as a bankruptcy judge for the Middle District of Alabama on March 14, 2022. Before his appointment, Chris was a partner at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, where he focused exclusively on bankruptcy and insolvency matters. For over twenty years, he represented debtors and creditors in out-of-court restructurings, commercial and consumer bankruptcy cases, bankruptcy litigation, and consumer bankruptcy compliance and regulatory enforcement matters.
Chris formerly served as Co-Chair of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Consumer Bankruptcy Committee and is an adjunct professor at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University. He co-authored Thorny Issues in Consumer Bankruptcy Cases (2nd ed. 2020) and is a member of the 33rd Class of Fellows of the American College of Bankruptcy. Prior to taking the bench, he was listed in Chambers USA for Bankruptcy and Restructuring and was named in the 2022 edition of the Lawdragon 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy and Restructuring Lawyers.
Chris graduated summa cum laude from Spring Hill College in 1996, earning bachelor’s degrees in English and Marketing. He earned his juris doctor degree from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1999, where he graduated summa cum laude, served on the managing board of the Alabama Law Review, was a member of the Order of the Coif, received the M. Leigh Harrison Award, and was a Hugo Black Scholar.
In October of 2015, Judge Oldshue took the bench as United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of Alabama, in Mobile, Alabama. Prior to taking the bench, Judge Oldshue was a shareholder in the firm of Rosen Harwood, P.A in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where he served as the Managing Shareholder of the firm's Creditor's Rights Department. While in practice, Judge Oldshue’s memberships included the Alabama State Bar, where he served as Chairman of the Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section, the Tuscaloosa County Bar, American Bankruptcy Institute (member, Commercial Fraud Task Force, Unsecured Trade Creditors Committee, and Consumer Bankruptcy Committee), the Conference on Consumer Finance Law, and the Commercial Law League of America. In 2001, Judge Oldshue became one of only seven attorneys in the state to achieve board certification as a specialist in creditors’ rights law. Judge Oldshue received his Bachelor of Science degree, and his juris doctorate and master’s of business administration concurrently, from The University of Alabama.
