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May 2021
MBBA’s May Joint Chapter Meeting Event – A Night of Fun and Games (Plus Voting on Next Year’s Board)!
Breaking from your regularly scheduled educational Zoom meetings, your MBBA Chapter Event Chairs have planned a fun evening of games that allow you to embrace your inner competitive side and get to know your fellow MBBA members a little better. After voting on the next year’s MBBA board (if that was not enough to entice you to attend the May meeting), MBBA members will break-out into teams to do some icebreakers, trivia, spontaneous challenges, game show antics, and more! …
Find out more »June 2021
United States Trustee Program introduction to the new Chapter 11 Periodic Reports
Please join us on June 30, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. for a virtual presentation by the United States Trustee Program on the new Chapter 11 periodic reports, which become effective on June 21, 2021. Assistant United States Trustees Jeanette Rice and Gerard Vetter will provide important information on the NEW Chapter 11 periodic reports. This program will introduce these streamlined, data-embedded, uniform forms and detail the procedures for completing, filing and serving the new monthly operating reports and post-confirmation…
Find out more »September 2021
2021 Kickoff Virtual Meeting
MBBA Annual Kickoff Program--VIRTUAL Tuesday, September 21, 2021 12-1:30 p.m. Despite not being able to enjoy each other’s company in person at our annual kickoff events, this year’s virtual program will include many of the aspects of previous kickoff events. We look forward to meeting with you and getting the year off to a great start. We will hear valuable insights from Chief Judge Thomas J. Catliota; Mark A. Neal, Clerk of Court; Gerard R. Vetter and L. Jeanette Rice…
Find out more »October 2021
Law Clerk Panel Presentation
Get in the know, from those in the know! Please join the BBA for the Law Clerk Panel, featuring several of our Bankruptcy Judges' law clerks in a roundtable discussion moderated by Judge Maria Chavez-Ruark. If you would like to submit a question to the law clerks, please send your question to Judge Ruark at judge_ruark@mdb.uscourts.gov no later than September 30, 2021. Please RSVP by October 8, 2021. Zoom information will be sent my separate email 24 hours prior to…
Find out more »Joint Virtual Chapter Meeting: Ethics Panel
Please join the MBBA for an Ethics Presentation* Moderated by The Honorable S. Martin Teel Panelist: Kimberly D. Marshall, Stephen A. Metz, and Gerard R. Vetter Zoom information will be provided 24 hours in advance of the meeting. *The MBBA will be applying for 1 hour of VA MCLE credit, including 1 hour of ethics.
Find out more »December 2021
Jingle & Mingle Holiday Happy Hour
The Maryland Bankruptcy Bar Association cordially invites you to join us for a Jingle & Mingle Holiday Happy Hour at Lib’s Grill in Maple Lawn on December 14, 2021 from 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Due to continued health-safety concerns, this year’s holiday party will be a mix and mingle and will not consist of our usual sit-down dinner. Please feel free to drop-in or stay awhile, depending on your comfort level. We have reserved a private room that fits…
Find out more »February 2022
Virtual Joint Chapter Meeting–Local Rules Updates
Please join the Maryland Bankruptcy Bar Association for our Virtual Joint Chapter Meeting which will feature Augustus T. Curtis and Dennis J. Shaffer as they discuss the new Maryland Local Rules that went into effect the latter part of 2021. Zoom information will be sent 24 hours prior to the event.
Find out more »March 2022
Virtual Joint Chapter Meeting: Hot Topics in Consumer Bankruptcy Cases
Please join the Maryland Bankruptcy Bar Association for our Joint Chapter Meeting which will feature The Honorable Nancy V. Alquist, Gary R. Greenblatt (Coon & Cole, LLC) and John C. Schropp (Yumkas, Vidmar, Sweeney & Mulrenin, LLC) as they discuss bifurcated attorney's fees in chapter 7 cases and discharge injunction issues after In re Taggart. Zoom information will be provided the day before the event.
Find out more »April 2022
Virtual Joint Chapter Meeting: Bifurcated Fees in Chapter 7
Please join the Maryland Bankruptcy Bar Association for our Joint Chapter Meeting that will feature Gary R. Greenblatt (Coon & Cole, LLC) for a discussion on bifurcated attorney's fees in chapter 7 cases. Zoom information will be provided the day before the event.
Find out more »May 2022
The Twenty-Fourth Annual BBA Spring Break Weekend
Register Now Program Schedule Make a Hotel Reservation General Conference Information The 24th Annual BBA Spring Break Weekend will be held on Thursday, May 5, 2022 and Friday, May 6, 2022 at the Westin Annapolis Hotel, 100 Westgate Circle, Annapolis, Maryland. Registration includes the program materials, drop-in lunch on Thursday, cocktail party on Thursday, continental breakfast on Friday, and luncheon on Friday. Space is limited. The BBA encourages all attendees to register online. If you prefer to register by first…
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