Total Credits: 1 CLE
This seminar will discuss recent US bankruptcy cases involving automatic stay. Cases covered will address civil contempt, damages, attorneys fees and more.
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Judge Callaway serves as Judge for the Southern District of Alabama. Prior to his appointment, he practiced business litigation and bankruptcy law with Hand Arendall firm in Mobile. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard in 1980 and law degree from Vanderbilt in 1983. Judge Callaway served on the board of the South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program for over twenty-five years, including seven as president. He has also served as chair of the Alabama Access to Justice Commission, president of the Mobile Bar Association, state bar commissioner for three terms, and member of the state bar executive council and disciplinary commission. He received the Pro Bono Publico award from the American Bar Association in 2011.
Glenn Glover has a broad practice that includes representing commercial creditors in out-of-court workouts, bankruptcy cases, and a variety of litigation settings. Glenn also has substantial experience in representing financial institutions in consumer litigation in bankruptcy courts. He has practiced in the areas of bankruptcy and creditors’ rights for over 20 years. Glenn has extensive experience in representing financial services clients in litigation in bankruptcy courts, having handled hundreds of matters for them over the years. He is extremely knowledgeable about the numerous types of bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy claims that are often brought against financial services companies in litigation, including discharge violations, violations of the automatic stay, violations of confirmation orders, and violations of numerous other bankruptcy statutes and rules, as well as non-bankruptcy claims, including FCRA, FDCPA, RESPA, and TILA allegations, particularly as the allegations relate to bankruptcy. Glenn was previously seconded as an in-house counsel for six months with a large non-bankruptcy mortgage servicer as its national bankruptcy litigation and compliance attorney, during which time he gained an immense amount of knowledge and experience. Based on his wealth of experience and substantive knowledge, he is often able to quickly value various bankruptcy-related claims brought against financial services companies and dispose of them in an economic and expeditious manner.
Glenn’s practice has also involved a significant amount of workouts and restructurings for banks and other financial institutions, spanning both the transactional and litigation areas of the law. He has substantial experience in real estate workouts of all sizes. Glenn is particularly familiar with important issues associated with drafting and securing favorable forbearance and modification terms for his clients with distressed loans, in addition to the numerous tools that are available for his clients’ use and advantage. On the litigation side, he follows his clients’ distressed loans into bankruptcy or litigation whenever necessary and has taken scores of depositions and handled numerous evidentiary hearings in state, federal and bankruptcy courts for his clients. Glenn has experience with a variety of creditor arrangements and has the knowledge and understanding of those arrangements to position his clients for maximum recovery. He has obtained numerous successes in his practice by assisting his creditor clients in obtaining payment in full and defeating lender liability claims raised by borrowers. Glenn has spoken on numerous occasions on topics relating to bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, including presentations for the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Norton Bankruptcy Institute, local and state bar organizations, and several of Bradley’s financial services clients. Glenn has also published numerous blogs in the area, as well as published articles.
Anthony Brian Bush, Esq., graduated from Thomas Goode Jones School of Law with honors, i.e. cum laude, where he was a Charter Member of the Patterson Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, Clerk of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, served as an Honor Court Justice, and was a junior editor for the Jones Law Review. Additionally, he received highest grade and best paper awards in multiple classes including Business Associations, Wills and Trusts, Alabama Civil Procedure, Sales – Uniform Commercial Code Article II, and Pre-trial Practice. Mr. Bush is licensed to practice law in the courts of the State of Alabama, the United States District Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama, and the United States Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama. Mr. Bush has dedicated his practice to the areas of Bankruptcy, Constitutional Law, Construction Law, General Civil Litigation (business and consumer), Civil Rights, Consumer Rights (Fair Debt Collection, Fair Credit Reporting, Telephone Consumer Protection, Truth in Lending, Debt Collection Defense, and Wrongful Foreclosure), Employment Law, Personal Injury and Police Brutality / Misconduct. He is a knowledgeable attorney with sophisticated strategies and records of success to protect the interests of his clients.
