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President
Lawrence Katz
8010 Towers Crescent Dr.
Suite 300
Vienna, VA 22182
(703) 760-1921
President Elect
Mark A. Neal
101 W. Lombard St.
Suite 2625
Baltimore, MD 21201
(410) 962-4300
Secretary
Lynn Kohen
6305 Ivy Lane
Suite 600
Greenbelt, MD 20770
(301) 344-6221
Treasurer
Alan Eisler
11140 Rockville Pike
Suite 570
Rockville, MD 20852
(240) 283-1164
Asst. Treasurer
Richard Goldberg
36 S. Charles St.
Suite 2000
Baltimore, MD 21201
(410) 385-4272
Immediate
Past President
Lawrence Yumkas
2530 Riva Road
Suite 308
Annapolis, MD 21401
DIRECTORS
Merrill Cohen*
Lawrence D. Coppel*
Richard Costella
Deborah H. Devan*
Edward C. Dolan*
Morton A. Faller*
Mark J. Friedman*
John Garza*
James Greenan
Gregory P. Johnson*
Patrick Kearney
Karen Moore*
Howard A. Rubenstein*
Paul Sweeney*
Lisa Tancredi
James A. Vidmar*
Irving E. Walker*
Richard L. Wasserman*
*Past President
Page Last Updated:
April 23, 2008
Copyright
September 5, 2007
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Proposed Slate of Officers and Directors - The Board of Directors has approved the Proposed Slate of Officers and Directors for the 2008-2009 term. The Proposed Slate will be put to vote at the Association's Annual Meeting to be conducted at the BBA's Spring Break Weekend in Annapolis, May 2 and 3, 2008. |
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Members on the Move - On March 1, 2008, Irving E. Walker, Gary H. Leibowitz and G. David Dean joined the firm of Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard, P.A. Together they opened the Baltimore office for the firm which is now located at 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 2350, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, phone (410) 230-0660. |
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Withdrawal of Reference Manual - The Honorable Duncan W. Keir, Chief Judge and Richard L. Wasserman, Esq. recently completed and made available to the bar a Memorandum Summarizing Procedures With Respect to Withdrawal of the Reference of Bankruptcy Matters from the United States Bankruptcy Court to the United States District Court in Maryland. A copy of this Manual is now available on this site under the above menu links "Bar Assn. Info. / Library >>." The BBA thanks Chief Judge Keir and Mr. Wasserman for their hard work on this project. |
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Spring Break 2008 Schedule Set - The BBA's marquee continuing legal education program - "Spring Break" - will be held at the Loews Annapolis Hotel on May 2 & 3, 2008. The BBA thanks Protiviti for sponsoring the educational portion of the program and Larry Coppel for continuing to organize this wonderful event.
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President's Message  |
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The Bylaws of the BBA were originally adopted on April 30, 1996. They were amended once on November 16, 2000 and are now in need of further updating in order to keep pace with current trends in the practice of law generally and the workings of the BBA specifically, as well as to reflect a recent change to the Articles of Incorporation of the BBA, discussed in paragraph 1 below.
At the annual meeting of the BBA, which will take place on Friday, May 2, as part of our Annual Spring Break Weekend, I will be asking the members of the BBA to approve the proposed amendments to the Bylaws. A blackline of the proposed changes is also available. These changes can be summarized as follows:
1. Eligibility for Membership - The Board of Directors recently approved an amendment to the Articles of Incorporation of the BBA with respect to the qualifications for membership. Previously, there were only two categories of membership: (a) "Attorney Members" who were admitted to practice before the District Court for the District of Maryland and who concentrated their practice on bankruptcy law, and (b) "Honorary Members" who were voted in. All of the bankruptcy judges in Maryland are Honorary Members. The amendment to the Articles added a third category for "Associate Members." Those Panel Chapter 7 Trustees and Standing Chapter 13 Trustees who are non-attorneys and thus ineligible to be Attorney Members of the BBA are now eligible to become Associate Members while they are serving as Trustees. This change in the Articles of Incorporation requires a number of corresponding changes to the Bylaws.
2. Notice - These days, we rely almost exclusively on email for communications among the officers, directors and members of the BBA. Notice by mail is expensive, slow and not always effective. For this reason, the proposed amendments to the Bylaws permit virtually all communications to be by email and make a number of timing adjustments to reflect this change.
3. Officer and Director Positions - The structure of the BBA is designed to provide equal representation between the Baltimore and Greenbelt divisions and to ensure a smooth transition of administrative functions from year to year. To further these goals, the proposed amendments to the Bylaws create a new position of Assistant Secretary (we already have an Assistant Treasurer) and permit officers and directors to serve up to three consecutive terms (the current limit is two terms). A number of related changes are included as well.
4. Miscellaneous changes - Along with the changes outlined above, a number of technical changes are being proposed to ensure that the Bylaws accurately reflect the way the BBA is currently operating. These changes are fairly self-explanatory. I urge all members of the BBA attending the annual meeting to vote in favor of these proposed amendments to the Bylaws. Thank you.
Larry Katz President |
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05/02/2008 & 05/03/2008 |
Spring Break CLE Weekend
Annapolis
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