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Mark your Calendar!
The 2008 Annual Seminar of
The Financial Lawyers Conference
February 22-24, 2008
How to Beat the Bankruptcy Process (or Not?): Letters of Credit; Swaps, Repos, and Other Protected Contracts; Interests in Intellectual Property
Our Seminar Moderator will be
Professor Ronald J. Mann
University of Texas School of Law
The moderator for our Seminar will be Professor Ronald J. Mann, a nationally recognized scholar and teacher in the fields of commercial law, payment systems and electronic commerce, and regarding the many bankruptcy issues implicated in these areas. Professor Mann is a co-author of the first American casebook in electronic commerce, and also has published two widely-used commercial law casebooks and a book concerning the global credit card industry. Additionally, he has delivered numerous papers and published in leading law journals in the United States, Israel, and Japan, and recently served as the Reporter for Articles 3 and 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Professor Mann graduated first in his class from the University of Texas School of Law. He clerked for Judge Sneed on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and then for Justice Lewis Powell, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court. After three years in private practice, he served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States and argued several key bankruptcy cases before the Supreme Court, including BFP v. Resolution Trust Corporation and Dewsnup v. Timm. Prior to joining the Columbia Law School faculty, Professor Mann held endowed chairs at the University of Michigan Law School and most recently at the University of Texas School of Law. He also taught at Washington University in St. Louis, was the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies at the Bank of Japan.
The seminar will be held at
Ojai Valley Inn & Spa
Ojai, California
A short drive northwest of LA, the luxurious, newly-renovated Ojai Valley Inn & Spa offers guests the finest of amenities, including a world-class spa, award-winning cuisine, superb golf and tennis, and scenic horseback rides, as well as art and mind/body classes. The charming shops and galleries of Ojai are a short stroll away. (Please see http://www.ojairesort.com/ for more information about the resort and to view this beautiful property, but please note - all Seminar applications and accommodations must be made through the Financial Lawyers Conference.)
Seminar Applications, etc: Membership Applications for The Financial Lawyers Conference were sent a few months ago. If you have not returned your membership application, please do so now, since only members of The Financial Lawyers Conference can attend the Annual Seminar. You can find a membership application on this site by clicking on "Membership Application" on the left side-bar of this site or you may check on the status of your membership or request an application by sending an email message to Christyne Buteyn. Seminar Invitations, Rules and Application will be sent to members only in early February. Also to make a special request for an Invitation, Rules, Application and Membership Application Christyne Buteyn at info@financiallawyers.org
Please direct all questions regarding the 2008 Annual Seminar to Christyne Buteyn @ info@financiallawyers.org
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