The Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association, in collaboration with the Milwaukee Bar Association Bankruptcy Section, is pleased to present the following CLE program:

Bankruptcy Appeals

Friday, November 16, 2007

Noon – 1:30 p.m.

Milwaukee Bar Association

424 East Wells Street, Milwaukee

1.0 CLE credit applied for

Presenter: Samuel R. Maizel, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, LLP, Los Angeles, CA

As the co-author of the recently published American Bankruptcy Institute’s Bankruptcy Appeals Manual-Winning Your Bankruptcy Appeal (ABI 2007), Mr. Maizel will discuss all of the “must-know” issues relevant to conducting an appeal – including choosing the proper forum, standing, timing, standards for review and stays pending appeal. He will also provide guidance on drafting appellate pleadings and presenting an effective appellate argument.

Mr. Maizel’s practice includes bankruptcy matters and financial restructuring in and out of court, with a focus on the healthcare industry. He has served as lead bankruptcy counsel to debtors in chapter 11 cases, as an examiner appointed pursuant to the request of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and as lead counsel to various official bankruptcy committees and to individual creditors. He has led his firm’s representation of the Attorneys General of forty-six states and six territories that are parties to the Master Settlement Agreement with the tobacco industry since 2000. Before joining Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Mr. Maizel represented the federal government in bankruptcy, district, and appellate courts nationwide as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Commercial Litigation Branch.

For questions or special needs, please contact Katy Borowski at 414-276-5933 or kborowski@milwbar.org.

Make checks payable to the MBA and send to EDWBA, Bankruptcy Appeals, 424 East Wells Street,

Milwaukee, WI 53202.

Refunds will not be issued for cancellations after November 12, 2007.