Total Credits: 1.0 CLE
Topics covered will include:
-Administrative Order Increasing Presumed Reasonable Compensation in Chapter 13 Cases
-Confirmation Court Announcement
-Upright Law
-New Chapter 13 Form Plan and Payment of Attorneys Fees
-and more
| Trustee Panel HO.pdf (17.7 MB) | 104 Pages | Available after Purchase |
| INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING SEMINAR AND RECEIVING CLE CREDIT2.docx (11.7 KB) | 1 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Mr. Hartley has been actively involved in virtually every type and aspect of bankruptcy, creditor’s rights and insolvency litigation for more than twenty years. His practice regularly includes advising clients in matters of financial restructuring, workout transactions and receivership proceedings. Although Mr. Hartley’s practice focuses primarily on the southeastern United States, he has handled matters in numerous other state and federal courts, including international matters in Mexico, the United Kingdom, Canada and South Korea.Mr. Hartley has been recognized as a leading bankruptcy attorney by Chambers USA, the Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers. He has obtained the highest rating by Martindale-Hubbell and has been chosen as one of the top 50 attorneys in Alabama by Super Lawyers and as the top bankruptcy litigation attorney in southwest Alabama by Best Lawyers.Mr. Hartley is currently a member of the Alabama State Bar (Past Chairman and Board Member of the Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section), the Mobile County Bar Association (Past Chairman of the Bankruptcy Section), the Paul W. Brock Inn of Court, the Federal Panel of Neutrals (for the Southern District of Alabama), the Bankruptcy Court Local Rules and Practice Advisory Committee, and the American Bankruptcy Institute. He is admitted to practice in all federal and state courts in Alabama, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida.
Michele T. Hatcher was appointed Chapter 13 Standing Trustee for the Northern District, Northern Division of Alabama in June 2017. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Hatcher served as staff attorney to Michael Ford, Chapter 13 Standing Trustee for the Northern District, Northern Division of Alabama, for three years. Before joining the Trustee’s office, she was managing partner of Bond, Botes, Sykstus, Hatcher & Tanner, P.C., located in Florence AL, where she specialized in representing consumer bankruptcy debtors for approximately seventeen years. Ms. Hatcher received her J.D. from The University of Alabama School of Law in 1996 and her undergraduate degree in commerce and business administration from The University of Alabama in 1993. She is a member of the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees and serves as the Chapter 12 Case Trustee for the Northern District, Northern Division of Alabama.
Sabrina McKinney is a native of Autauga County Alabama, received her undergraduate degree from Auburn University in 1990 and her J.D. from Jones School of Law in 1993.After law school, she was in private practice where her focus was on plaintiff’s litigation, decedent’s estates, creditor’s rights and the representation of creditors in both state and bankruptcy courts. In 1997 she was hired as Senior Staff Attorney for Curtis C. (Cleve) Reding, Jr., Standing Chapter 13 Trustee for the Middle District of Alabama and served in that capacity until her recent appointment as Trustee. Mrs. McKinney was appointed as the Chapter 12 Trustee in August 2016 and as the Chapter 13 Trustee for the Middle District of Alabama in April 2017. She has been a speaker at numerous CLE’s on various bankruptcy and collection issues. She is currently admitted to practice by the Alabama Supreme Court, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States District Courts for the Middle, Northern and Southern Districts of Alabama. She has served as an officer and is a past president of the Alabama Bar Association’s Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section and currently serves on the Bar’s Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee.
