New York City Annual Seminar Was a Success: Don’t Miss the 2027 Seminar

Numbers are moving up for Chapter 13 filings, and the attendance was up for  61st Annual NACTT Seminar in New York City, with over 700 registrants.  

If you missed NACTT’s Annual Seminar in New York City, you missed terrific  presentations by several panels, covering the following topics: Raise It or Risk It:  Trustee Discretion and Judicial Expectations; Boomers to Zoomers: Bankruptcy  Challenges Across the Age Spectrum; Creditors Without Borders: Legal Challenges in  a National Bankruptcy Practice; The Taxman Always Rings Twice: When Taxes Refuse  to Go Away; Breaking Debt: Foreclosure, Tax Sales, and the Bankruptcy Hustle;  Google Law Degrees and the Constitutionally Confused: A Field Guide to Pro Se and  Sovereign Citizen Debtors; Durand-Day All Night Long: Tackling Student Loans in  Chapter 13 Plans; Late Claims, Stale Claims and Missing Claims: What are a Debtor  and Trustee To Do?; Legislative Process and Bankruptcy Legislation: An Insider’s  Perspective; Ethics for Bankruptcy Attorneys: Prison Orange Isn’t in Your Color Wheel;  Crossing the Finish Line: How to Help Debtors Complete their Plans, Chapter 13  Showdown: Judges vs. Trustees—Family Feud Style; Buy Now, Regret Later: The  Rise of Consumer Scams and How to Respond; Pre- and Post-Petition Causes of  Action: Who Represents, Who Recovers, and Who Pays?, and the Annual Chapter 13  Case Law Update. 

Recordings of the panel presentations and the excellent materials are available  for purchase from the Academy. 

Hopefully, you will attend the 2027 Annual Seminar to be held in Denver at the  Gaylord Rockies Hotel, July 14-17, 2027. Mark your calendar now! 

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