2022 Annual Bankruptcy Institute | Virtual

Wendi Alper-Pressman Related Seminars and Products

Armstrong Teasdale LLP

Christopher Borniger Related Seminars and Products

Office of the United States Trustee (U.S. Department of Justice)

Chris Borniger is a trial attorney with the U.S. Trustee’s Kansas City office. Before turning to law, Chris spent five years as an editor at The Dallas Morning News. He has a journalism degree from the University of Kansas and a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Jonathan Brent Related Seminars and Products

Jonathan Brent Attorney at Law

Tracy Brown Related Seminars and Products

Law Office of Tracy Brown, P.C.

Tracy A. Brown has managed her own firm for over 25 years and is licensed in Missouri and Texas. She specializes in Bankruptcy and Tax Resolution. In 2003 she was appointed as a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Panel Trustee in the Eastern District of Missouri. She has a Texas CPA license. 

Hon. Bonnie Clair Related Seminars and Products

United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri

Bonnie L. Clair is the Chief Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Conference News and serves on the NCBJ-UST Liaison Committee for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, but people only want to hear about her appearance on Jeopardy! in 2006. 

Diana Daugherty Related Seminars and Products

Ch. 13 Bankruptcy Trustee for the Eastern District of Missouri

Diana Daugherty was appointed Standing Chapter 13 Trustee for the Eastern District of Missouri on March 1, 2017, and served as staff attorney for John V. LaBarge, Jr., the prior Standing Chapter 13 Trustee. Diana was the 2008 recipient of the Missouri Bar's Roser Award for Excellence in Bankruptcy Practice.

Hon. Dennis Dow Related Seminars and Products

United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D.

Judge Dow was appointed a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Missouri by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on November 10, 2003.

Prior to joining the bench, Judge Dow was a partner with the firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Judge Dow was listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of bankruptcy law continuously from 1995. 

Judge Dow is a member of the Missouri Bar, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute.

Judge Dow is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, inducted in March 2013 and was selected in November 2014 to become a conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference.  

He is a member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges.

He is Chief Judge of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel.  He served a term as Chair of the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules

Judge Dow received his B.A., with honors, from the University of Wyoming in 1975 and his J.D. in 1978 from Washburn University School of Law, where he was Notes Editor of the Washburn Law Journal.  

Robert Eggmann Related Seminars and Products

Carmody MacDonald P.C.

Robert E. Eggmann received his Bachelor of Arts from St. Louis University in 1986 and received his Juris Doctorate from St. Louis University School of Law in 1989. Mr. Eggmann is an attorney in the St. Louis, Missouri based law firm Carmody MacDonald P.C. Mr. Eggmann practices in the fields of bankruptcy, restructuring, creditor’s rights, commercial litigation and financial transactions. He has extensive experience in the field of the representation of Chapter 11 debtors and creditors’ committees. Mr. Eggmann also serves as a Chapter 7 panel trustee for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Illinois and a Sub Chapter V trustee for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of Illinois. 

Dana Estes Related Seminars and Products

Office of the Chapter 13 Trustee

Dana M. Estes has been a Staff Attorney for Richard V. Fink, the standing Chapter 13 Trustee for the Western District of Missouri since 2004. She received her undergraduate degree in Biology from William Jewell College in 1993 and her J.D. from Washington University School of Law in 1998.

Hon. Brian Fenimore Related Seminars and Products

United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri

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.

Joseph Jeppson, VI VI Related Seminars and Products

Jeppson Law Office, LLC

Joe Jeppson owns the Jeppson Law Office which has represented debtors in chapters 7 and 13 bankruptcy in Missouri and Kansas since 2011. Joe is a board-certified specialist in consumer bankruptcy law and has been a regular speaker at local, state, and national events for more than a decade. He has served the bankruptcy bar as a member of the Western District of Missouri’s Attorney Advisory Committee and led the Kansas City Bankruptcy Bar Association as President, VP of Membership Athletic Director.

Eric Johnson Related Seminars and Products

Spencer Fane, LLP

Eric is a partner at Spencer Fane LLP where he serves as the practice group leader for the bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors’ rights group and co-practice group leader of the firm’s banking and financial services group. Eric represents clients in bankruptcy, non-bankruptcy insolvency proceedings, such as receiverships, and other related insolvency matters.

Eric is a fellow of The American College of Bankruptcy and serves on the board of directors for the American Bankruptcy Institute, one of the leading organizations for insolvency professionals. Eric was recently named by Best Lawyers in America as a 2023 “Lawyer of the Year” for Kansas City, Missouri for bankruptcy litigation and bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law.

Eric received his Juris Doctor from the University of Iowa College of Law and his undergraduate degree from the University of Northern Iowa, where he currently serves on the board of managers for the alumni association.

Michelle Masoner Related Seminars and Products

UMB Bank N.A.

Michelle Masoner is Legal Counsel with UMB Bank N.A. She practiced primarily in the area of commercial litigation, corporate restructuring, bankruptcy, and debtor-creditor rights for over 20 years in private practice. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law.

Adam Miller Related Seminars and Products

Office of the United States Trustee

Adam E. Miller has been a trial attorney with the Office of the United States Trustee in Kansas City, Missouri since 2007 where he is involved in administering and litigating cases under all Chapters of the Bankruptcy Code.  Previously, he served on detail in the Office of General Counsel for the Executive Office of United States Trustees where he advised program leadership and field offices on numerous issues of bankruptcy law.  Currently, he serves on the program’s working group responsible for supervising the collateralization and safekeeping of more than $3 billion in bankruptcy estate assets. 

Before joining the United States Trustee Program, he was in private practice with the consumer bankruptcy firm of Morgan, Allen and King in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and clerked for the Hon. Yvonne Kauger on the Oklahoma Supreme Court.  He has a B.A. degree from Oklahoma State University; a J.D. degree from Oklahoma City University (summa cum laude) where he served as the Acting Managing Editor of the Oklahoma City University Law Review; and an LL.M. degree from the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law at the Boston University School of Law where he served as the Graduate Editor of the Review of Banking and Financial Law.  He is a member of the bars of the state of Oklahoma and Missouri; the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the 8th and 10th Circuits and the United States Supreme Court and also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law where he teaches classes in Bankruptcy and Banking Law.

Hon. Cynthia Norton Related Seminars and Products

United States Courthouse

Chief Judge Cynthia A. Norton was appointed on Feb. 1, 2013. She is a frequent speaker and author on many bankruptcy and related topics. 

Pamela Putnam Related Seminars and Products

Sandberg Phoenix & Von Gontard P.C.

David Sosne Related Seminars and Products

Summers Compton Wells LLC

Hon. Kathy Surratt-States Related Seminars and Products

US Bankruptcy Court

Judge Surratt-States was sworn in as U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri on March 17, 2003 and appointed Chief Judge on February 1, 2013.

Judge Surratt-States received her B.A., cum laude, from Oklahoma City University and her J.D. from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.

David Warfield Related Seminars and Products

Thompson Coburn, LLP

David A. Warfield is a co-chair of Thompson Coburn's Financial Restructuring practice group.

Daniel West Related Seminars and Products

SouthLaw, PC

Dan joined the firm in May 2000 and is a Shareholder and Managing Attorney over the St. Louis, Missouri operation. He is currently licensed to practice law in Missouri and is also admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri and the Federal District of Kansas and the Federal District of Nebraska. He obtained his B.A. in Finance from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1994. He obtained his law degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1997.
Dan has concentrated his practice of law representing secured creditors in bankruptcy and related litigation, primarily in the Eastern District of Missouri since 1997. He is a noted speaker at various industry conferences and an author in regional and national publications.

Jacqueline Wright Related Seminars and Products

State of Alaska Department of Law