Landlord-Tenant Law
12/1/2010
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Gary F. Seitz
Gary F. Seitz, Chairman of the Firm’s Bankruptcy and Business Finance department, will be among the speakers at the Landlord-Tenant Law seminar to be held on December 1, 2010 in Wilmington, Delaware.
Gary will provide presentations on Landlord-Tenant Mediation/Dispute Resolution and Collections: Enforcing Your Judgment .
The seminar’s topics will include:
Landlord-Tenant Mediation/Dispute Resolution
- Overview of ADR – Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Effective use of ADR in landlord/tenant cases: mediation; arbitration; collaborative law
Collections: Enforcing Your Judgment
- What to do when a tenant or landlord files bankruptcy
- Effect of a bankruptcy stay, lifting the automatic stay, regaining possession
- Tenant’s duty to pay rent during the pending bankruptcy
- Considerations before pursuing judgment, should you even bother?
- Obtain necessary information to collect judgment early in the rental process
- Obtaining judgment: where to file - jurisdiction and venue issues and what to file - is small claims appropriate?
- Collecting on the judgment
- Moving for periodic payments
- Post judgment attachments and trustee process:
- Can you attach bank accounts or wages and other options
- Absconding, skip tracing, and use of investigators
Gary F. Seitz, a partner in the Philadelphia and Wilmington offices of Rawle & Henderson, LLP and chair of the bankruptcy and business finance section, practices in commercial bankruptcy, commercial litigation, and admiralty and maritime law.
Mr. Seitz serves as a Chapter 7 Panel Trustee in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and acts as a trustee in Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 cases in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the District of Delaware. Mr. Seitz has extensive experience handling bankruptcy matters for creditors, asset purchasers, and trustees. He is a frequent author and lecturer in his area of expertise.
Mr. Seitz is a member of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference, the Delaware Bankruptcy Inns of Court, and the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and American Bar Associations. Mr. Seitz received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Buena Vista University, his LL.M. from Tulane University, and his J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law.
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