Total Credits: 6.5 MCLE, 1.0 Ethics, 1.0 Elimination of Bias, 6.0 Kansas Credit, 1.0 Kansas Ethics
9:00 – 9:56 AM | Case Law Update & Current Developments
Speaker: Hon. Brian T. Fenimore, Chief Judge, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Missouri
9:50 – 10:05 AM | Break
10:06 – 11:02 AM | Stay Violations & Discharge Injunctions – post Taggart
Speaker: Sarah E. Tomlinson, Law Clerk for Hon. Charles E. Rendlen III, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri
11:02 – 11:51 AM | New Bankruptcy Legislation
Speakers: John C. Reed, Pletz & Reed, PC and Daniel J. Casamatta, Office of the United States Trustee, Western District, Kansas City
11:51 AM – 12:51 PM | Lunch
12:51 – 1:40 PM | Advocacy Skills
Speakers: Margaret “Meg” Reuter, Associate Clinical Professor & Director of Field Placement Programs, University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law, Kansas City; Sharon L. Stolte, Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard PC, Kansas City
1:40 – 2:43 PM | Chapter 12 Farm Bankruptcy
Speaker: Fredrich Cruse, The Cruse Law Firm, PC
2:43 – 2:53 PM | Break
2:53 – 3:47 PM | #MeToo, Bias & Bullying
Speaker: Dana Tippin Cutler, James W. Tippin & Associates, Kansas City
3:47 PM | Adjourn
Rebroadcast Moderators:
March 27 | Laura Toledo, Lathrop GPM LLP, St. Louis
April 24 | Sherri Wattenbarger, U.S. Trustee's Office, Western District of Missouri, Kansas City
May 15 | Morgan Teague, Teague & Associates, LLC, St. Charles
June 29 | Sarah Tomlinson, Attorney at Law, St. Louis
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New Bankruptcy Legislation (5.3 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Advocacy Skills (1.3 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Chapter 12 Farm Bankruptcy (316.2 KB) | Available after Purchase |
#MeToo, Bias & Bullying (435 KB) | Available after Purchase |
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Daniel J. Casamatta, in his 33rd year with the U.S. Trustee Program (USTP), is the Acting U.S. Trustee in Region 13 and the Assistant U.S. Trustee in Kansas City. He had previously managed the Grand Rapids office and served as Chief of the USTP's national training center in South Carolina.
With close to 35 years in the practice of law, Dana has served in several positions of bar leadership during her career, including being the first woman of color elected as president of The Missouri Bar, in 2016. Her numerous bar-related awards include the 2020 Eighth Circuit Richard S. Arnold Award for Distinguished Service; three President’s Awards from The Missouri Bar; a President’s Award from the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association; the Ronda F. Williams Spirit of Diversity Award; and the Sly James Diversity and Inclusion Award, just to name a few. She has been recognized as one of the Top 30 Education Law attorneys in Missouri; a Missouri Super Lawyer since 2014; and was honored as the 2018 Woman of the Year by Missouri Lawyers Weekly at their Annual Women’s Justice Awards Luncheon. Dana has tried more than twenty bench and jury trials.
She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English, with honors, from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, and her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
When not practicing law, Dana, along with her husband and law partner Keith Cutler, are co-judges on the two-time Emmy-nominated, nationally syndicated daytime television courtroom show “Couples Court with the Cutlers.” The show is seen daily on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Before becoming a bankruptcy judge on August 31, 2017, Brian T. Fenimore led the bankruptcy team at Lathrop Gage LLP for more than 20 years, representing debtors, creditors, and many other parties in interest. He graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1988 with a degree in Agricultural Economics, and the University of Michigan Law School in 1990. After graduating from law school, he clerked for the Honorable Arthur B. Federman.
Meg Reuter is associate clinical professor at University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she runs the field placement program. She previously taught at Indiana University, Brooklyn Law School, and New York Law School. She has co-authored books on experiential curriculum design and conducted empirical research on lawyering skill development.
Sharon is a shareholder and leader of Sandberg Phoenix’s bankruptcy and creditor rights group. She brings more than 25 years of experience in business law and business and commercial litigation. Her legal practice focuses on bankruptcy, Chapter 11 debtor and creditor issues, as well as Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 debtor matters.
Sharon has represented creditors in all aspects of creditor rights litigation, claim objection litigation, collateral realization, mechanic liens, collections, foreclosures, and replevin litigation. Sharon has also assisted financial institutions, lenders, and large suppliers with consumer and commercial restructuring of troubled credits and other business matters. In addition to representing clients before both state and federal courts, she has served as national counsel for several Kansas City-based construction industry firms. As a result of the breadth of her practice and her years of experience, Sharon is well-known and highly-regarded in the Kansas City legal community.
Sharon is licensed to practice in the Kansas Court of Appeals and Supreme Court, and the Missouri Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. She also appears before the U.S. District and Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, the U.S. District and Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri, and the U.S. District and Bankruptcy Court for the District of Kansas. Sharon is authorized to electronically file in most federal bankruptcy courts in the United States.
Sharon received her Juris Doctor from the University of Kansas School of Law.
Sarah E. (Shay) Tomlinson is a litigation associate with Summers Compton Wells. Shay concentrates her practice on business litigation including employment matters, restructuring, bankruptcy, and government compliance.
Shay earned her law degree from Saint Louis University School of Law. Following graduation, Shay served as a judicial law clerk in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and served as a Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice. She is a contributing author to the ABI Journal and The Wyoming Lawyer.