SNW Partner Ryan J. Richmond will be presenting with Judge Louis Kornreich (ret.) this week at the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees‘ annual conference in Chicago. Their panel, Mediation-ish: How to use Mediation Tools to Facilitate a Consensual Plan, will focus on how subchapter V trustee can use a mediator’s toolkit to facilitate the development of consensual plans of reorganization in small business bankruptcy cases.

The NABT is hosting its annual conference in Chicago, IL August 25-27, 2021. This year’s conference will feature a first-of-its-kind track dedicated exclusively to issues arising under subchapter V of the new Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019.

Ryan’s co-panelist, the Hon. Judge Kornreich, recently retired from the bench, after serving as the bankruptcy judge for the District of Maine. Jude Kornreich is a member of nationally-recognized mediator and is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s mediation section.

Ryan serves as Managing Partner of SNW’s Baton Rouge, LA office and leads the firm’s bankruptcy section.