Webinar: Keeping Your Money: A Creditor’s Guide to Defending Preference Actions
August 11 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Frustrated by letters and lawsuits from bankruptcy trustees wanting you to return payments made by customers that still owe you money? By understanding the basics of preference actions and defenses, you will learn whether you really have to give it all back.
In this webinar, you will learn:
- What a preferential transfer is
- How to determine if you have preference exposure
- How to defend yourself against preference claims
- The advantages of secured status in a preference defense
About the speaker: As a member of Spilman Thomas & Battle PLLC, Sally E. Edison concentrates her practice in the areas of commercial bankruptcy, insolvency, and creditors’ rights. In addition to her role as National Bankruptcy Counsel to a multinational group of manufacturing and service companies, Sally’s clientele includes trade creditors, secured creditors, debtors, small businesses, major corporations and court-appointed committees. She also represents former officers and directors in bankruptcy proceedings in insurance coverage and indemnification matters. Her professional successes include defeating a renown former Solicitor General of the United States in oral argument before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and receiving firm-wide commendation by the General Counsel of a public company for the outstanding results she obtained on the company’s behalf. Sally’s decades of experience, along with her commitment to the community and dedication to the advancement of diversity in the legal profession, have made her a sought-after speaker and garnered her significant state and national recognition for professional excellence and leadership. Among other honors, Sally has been named a “Pennsylvania Super Lawyer” (multiple years, including 2015) and a “Pennsylvania Super Lawyer Rising Star” by Super Lawyers; included among Pittsburgh’s “40 under 40” by Pittsburgh Magazine; and selected by the National Diversity Council as one of the “2012 Most Powerful and Influential Women in Pennsylvania.”