The American Bar Association's Environment, Energy, and Resources Law Summit

Foley Partner Jill Murch will be speaking at the American Bar Association’s Environment, Energy, and Resources Law Summit: 16th Section Fall Meeting. The program will be held from September 17-20, 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona.

This summit will provide an opportunity where environment, energy, and resources lawyers meet to dialogue on cutting edge topics in the areas of environment, energy, and resources law. The Fall Meeting brings together leading government officials, academics, and practicing lawyers to provide insight and analysis of topics of national and international importance.

Ms. Murch will be speak on Wednesday, September 17^th from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. on the session titled “The Subprime Lending Crisis, Impending Recession, and the New Rules for Environmental Properties in Bankruptcy”. The panel will navigate the resolution of environmental remediation obligations and the disposition of contaminated properties, such as through sales under Bankruptcy Code § 363 and the use of post-confirmation liquidating vehicles, and will also cover recent developments in case law.