44^th Annual Jay L. Westbrook

Bankruptcy Conference

Austin Nov 19, 20-21, 2025 Four Seasons Hotel
Wednesday Evening John C. Akard Lecture $795 Individual "Early-bird" | $895 after Aug 7 | $995 after Nov 5 $715 Group rate per person (5 registrants minimum) "Early-bird" | $805 after Aug 7 | $895 after Nov 5 $635 Group rate per person (10 registrants minimum) "Early-bird" | $715 after Aug 7 | $795 after Nov 5

Live Webcast Nov 19-21, 2025 $795 Individual $715 Group rate per person (5 registrants minimum) $635 Group rate per person (10 registrants minimum) $100 Add-on rate for in-person registrants

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Overview

Now in its 44th year, UT Law CLE's Jay L. Westbrook Bankruptcy Conference is one of the premier bankruptcy programs in the nation. The conference attracts a stellar national faculty of prominent judges, academics, and practitioners.

Planning Committee

Eric M. Van Horn—Chair

Spencer Fane LLP
Dallas, TX

April Rogers—Director

The University of Texas School of Law
Austin, TX

Hon. John C. Akard

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, Retired
Tomball, TX

R. Byrn "Byrnie" Bass Jr.

Attorney at Law
Lubbock, TX

Pam Bassel

Chapter 13 Trustee
Fort Worth, TX

Hon. Christopher G. Bradley

U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Texas
Austin, TX

Megan F. Clontz

Ferguson Braswell Fraser & Kubasta PC
Plano, TX

Brian T. Cumings

Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody
Austin, TX

Sean B. Davis

Winstead PC
Houston, TX

Abbey Ulsh Dreher

Bonial & Associates, PC
Dallas, TX

Ashley L. Harper

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Houston, TX

Hon. Stacey G. C. Jernigan

U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Texas
Dallas, TX

Erin E. Jones

Jones Murray LLP
Houston, TX

Aaron M. Kaufman

Gray Reed
Dallas, TX

Deborah B. Langehennig

Chapter 13 Trustee
Austin, TX

Demetra Liggins

McGuireWoods
Houston, TX

Angela Littwin

The University of Texas School of Law
Austin, TX

Ryan Manns

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
Dallas, TX

Timothy A. Million

Husch Blackwell
Houston, TX

Kelli S. Norfleet

Haynes Boone, LLP
Houston, TX

Jay H. Ong

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C.
Austin, TX

Michael R. Rochelle

Rochelle McCullough, L.L.P.
Dallas, TX

Cristina Rodriguez

The Office of Tiffany Castro, Chapter 13 Trustee
Houston, TX

Charlie Shelton

Hayward PLLC
Austin, TX

William L. Wallander

Vinson & Elkins LLP
Dallas, TX

Jay L. Westbrook

The University of Texas School of Law
Austin, TX

Deborah D. Williamson

Dykema Gossett PLLC
San Antonio, TX

Megan Young-John

Porter Hedges LLP
Houston, TX

Key Dates

Austin – Nov 19*, 20-21, 2025 – Four Seasons Hotel

*Wednesday Evening John C. Akard Lecture

Live Webcast – Nov 19-21, 2025

Austin
Live Webcast

Individual
Last day for $795.00 Early Bird pricing: Aug 7, 2025
Last day for $895.00 Regular pricing: Nov 5, 2025

$995.00 for registrations received after this time

Group (5 registrants minimum)
Last day for $715.00 Early Bird pricing: Aug 7, 2025
Last day for $805.00 Regular pricing: Nov 5, 2025

$895.00 for registrations received after this time

Group (10 registrants minimum)
Last day for $635.00 Early Bird pricing: Aug 7, 2025
Last day for $715.00 Regular pricing: Nov 5, 2025

$795.00 for registrations received after this time

Last day for cancellation (full refund): Nov 14, 2025

$50 processing fee applied after this date

Last day for cancellation: Nov 17, 2025

Individual
Group (5 registrants minimum)
Group (10 registrants minimum)
Add-on
Last day for cancellation (full refund): Nov 14, 2025

$50 processing fee applied after this date

Last day for cancellation: Nov 17, 2025

Venue

Four Seasons Hotel

98 San Jacinto Boulevard
Austin, TX 78701-4082
512-478-4500 (reservations)
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Accommodations

We’ve arranged a room block at the Four Seasons Austin for event attendees. Information about the room block, including how to book and access the discounted rate, will be emailed to you along with your program registration receipt.

Parking Information

Daily self parking: $22
Daily valet: $25
Overnight valet parking: $60

Additional Information

The conference will take place in the Four Seasons Ballroom located on the lake level of the hotel.

Our Sponsors

Thank you to our sponsors! Click each logo below to learn more.

Vinson & Elkins LLP

At Vinson & Elkins, our people are our strongest asset. Collaborating seamlessly across 12 offices worldwide, we provide outstanding client service. Our lawyers are committed to excellence, offering clients experience in handling their transactions, investments, projects and disputes across the globe.
We make the business of our clients our business, and are recognized professionals in key industries driving our global economy forward. Our market-leading approach comes from our experience — experience gained from representing entrepreneurial innovators in their most important deals and disputes for over 100 years. Our commitment to excellence, coupled with our commercial approach to solving problems, allows us to collaborate with clients to achieve results.

www.velaw.com/
MACCO Restructuring Group, LLC

MACCO Restructuring Group, LLC (“MACCO”) is a national, award-winning, middle-market focused interim leadership and financial advisory practice. Based in Houston, Texas, it has professionals and locations from coast to coast who possess real world business experience and have led and managed companies serving as CEOs, CROs, CFOs, as senior lenders or in fiduciary roles such as operating chapter 11 trustee, assignee, and receiver.

MACCO believes businesses in operational or financial peril, and the people who own or manage them, should have access to cost-effective, straightforward solutions. MACCO’s attributes of independence, high-ethical standards, and our willingness to take accountability, each allow us to act quickly, move confidently and execute precisely to “put out the fire and protect the stakeholders from getting burned.”

www.macco.group/
Reed Smith LLP

Reed Smith is a dynamic international law firm dedicated to helping clients move their businesses forward. With an inclusive culture and innovative mindset, we deliver smarter, more creative legal services that drive better outcomes for our clients. Our deep industry knowledge, long-standing relationships and collaborative structure make us the go-to partner for complex disputes, transactions, and regulatory matters.

For more information, please visit www.reedsmith.com.
www.reedsmith.com
Haynes and Boone, LLP

Founded in 1970, Haynes and Boone, LLP is among the fastest-growing firms in the Am Law 100, providing a full spectrum of legal services across multiple sectors, including corporate, energy, financial services, real estate, restructuring, litigation, intellectual property and specialty transactions. The firm’s nearly 700 lawyers practice across 19 global offices in California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C., London, Mexico City and Shanghai. Thirty-One different firm practice areas were ranked in the 2023 Chambers USA Legal Guide, and in 2024, Haynes Boone became the first Am Law 100 firm to ever earn a Gold-level Bell Seal from Mental Health America, recognizing its industry-leading commitment to creating a mentally healthy workplace. For more information, visit haynesboone.com.

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Weil

Founded in 1931, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has been a preeminent provider of legal services for the past 90 years. With approximately 1,200 lawyers in offices on three continents, Weil has been a pioneer in establishing a geographic footprint that has allowed the Firm to partner with clients wherever they do business. The Firm's four departments, Corporate, Litigation, Restructuring, and Tax, Executive Compensation & Benefits, and more than two dozen practice groups are consistently recognized as leaders in their respective fields. Weil has become a highly visible leader among major law firms for its innovative diversity and pro bono initiatives, the product of a comprehensive and long-term commitment which has ingrained these values into our culture. Our proven, demonstrated experience allows the Firm to provide clients with unmatched legal services. Please see www.weil.com for more information, including awards and rankings.
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Getzler Henrich & Associates, a Hilco Global Company

“The right experience can turn 20/20 hindsights into 20/20 foresights.”
When facing serious challenges, companies turn to professionals with relevant expertise and experience, and a firm they can trust. Getzler Henrich, founded 1968, is built on key principles of impeccable integrity, a commitment to honesty, and an overriding focus on maximizing values for our clients.
We are the leading independent corporate advisor in the middle market providing a full array of turnaround management, operational improvements, crisis and interim management, corporate restructuring, bankruptcy, financial advisory, litigation support and distressed M&A services across multiple industries.
We lead with seasoned practitioners and industry veterans to bring strategic and pragmatic solutions to achieve successful results. To find out how we can partner with you - please visit us at www.getzlerhenrich.com getzlerhenrich.com/
Jones Walker LLP

Jones Walker LLP is a law firm committed to helping clients address today’s challenges, maximize opportunities, and set the stage for future success. Our bankruptcy and restructuring team touts a national footprint, industry focus, and top-tier attorneys providing unparalleled guidance to creditors, debtors, and other business stakeholders. Our experienced attorneys provide counsel at every step, from pre-bankruptcy planning and negotiation of out-of-court workouts and restructurings, to representing clients in bankruptcy court litigation, appeals, and complex Section 363 asset sales and bidding procedures. Attorneys in the practice group are equally skilled in state and non-bankruptcy law remedies and proceedings, such as receiverships. Jones Walker’s bankruptcy and restructuring practice is dedicated to helping businesses, creditors’ committees, lenders, trade creditors, and customers navigate distress within the marketplace.
joneswalker.com
Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C.

Munsch Hardt is a Texas-based law firm with more than 39 years of experience representing commercial clients on any legal matter they may face during the life cycle of their business, from start-up ventures to established institutions with legal needs across Texas and around the world. Munsch Hardt’s Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Insolvency practice ranks among the largest and most experienced insolvency practices in the Southwest. Our practice has been consistently ranked by Chambers USA – Texas since 2005, as well as regionally every year since 2010 in the categories of “Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law” and “Litigation-Bankruptcy” by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”, published by Woodward/White, Inc. To learn more, please visit our website at www.munsch.com.
munsch.com
Parkins & Rubio LLP

Parkins Lee & Rubio LLP is a boutique business law firm, with offices in Houston and New York, comprised of experienced financial restructuring, business bankruptcy attorneys and bankruptcy litigators focused on debtor-creditor rights, corporate bankruptcies, bankruptcy litigation and complex debt restructurings. Our experience includes oil and gas (up-stream, mid-stream, and down-stream, oil field service companies), real estate, financial, chemical, airline, health care, automotive supply chain, trucking, logistics, restaurants, hospitality, private equity and corporate governance. Each of the founding partners of the firm is enthusiastic about the practice of law and has devoted their entire careers to the practice of restructuring, bankruptcy law and bankruptcy litigation. We use our expertise to provide top-tier legal representation to our clients with an uncompromising commitment to ethical, efficient hard work to optimize client results and to build strong and lasting relationships with our clients.
www.parkinsrubio.com/
Financial Software Solutions/ TrusteSolutions

TrusteSolutions, a division of Financial Software Solutions, LLC (FSS), delivers better case management for Chapter 7 trustees with more automation, more customization, and more mobility than any other software available, helping them uphold their fiduciary responsibilities with excellence, maintain compliance effortlessly and maximize profitability. CORE (Case Organization for Receivers & Executives), provides a system of record for court-appointed receivers and Chapter 11/liquidating trustees that saves time through integrated banking, flexible accounting, professional support, and automation tools that take advantage of the “one free look” for ECF documents. Both FSS cloud-based software solutions are productivity-enhancing tools built to save time and increase profitability. trustesolutions.com
Bracewell LLP

Bracewell LLP is a leading law firm that is known worldwide for its unique depth and experience in the energy, infrastructure, finance and technology sectors. To complement our sector-focused excellence, we boast an impressive and diversified array of market-leading substantive practices, including award-winning transactional, litigation, regulatory and government relations practices. This robust mix of sector and practice strengths has allowed us to be a firm of choice for many of the world’s largest and most successful corporate enterprises, financial institutions, private funds and governmental entities.

Our firm’s success is anchored by four authentic pillars of strength: a culture based on personal relationships, collaboration and a shared passion for the firm and its clients; our distinction as a destination firm for talent; blue-chip clients; and a reputation for excellence as a sector and large practice powerhouse.

bracewell.com bracewell.com
Riveron Consulting

Riveron Consulting
Spencer Fane LLP

The Spencer Fane bankruptcy team works with clients to navigate the complex bankruptcy process to maximize their recoveries and help them achieve their business needs and goals. With 26 offices across the nation, the firm’s attorneys are known for their creative problem-solving and pragmatic approach in and out of the bankruptcy court arena.

While their team is deeply experienced in guiding clients through the bankruptcy process, the firm’s attorneys are equally adept at favorably navigating clients through non-bankruptcy insolvency matters whether it be state court loan enforcement actions, out-of-court workouts, receiverships, assignments for the benefit of creditors, and similar insolvency proceedings.
www.spencerfane.com
AlixPartners

AlixPartners is a results-driven global consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses respond quickly and decisively to their most critical challenges—from urgent performance improvement to complex restructuring, from risk mitigation to accelerated transformation. These are the moments when everything is on the line—a sudden shift in the market, an unexpected performance decline, a time-sensitive deal, a fork-in-the-road decision. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients until the job is done, and only measure our success in terms of the results we deliver. We partner with you to make the right decisions and take the right actions. And we are right by your side. When it really matters.
www.alixpartners.com
Gray Reed

The Corporate Restructuring & Bankruptcy Department at Gray Reed assists clients in pursuing efficient, innovative and sophisticated solutions in distressed financial situations. We provide prompt, effective advice and responses that allow for the quick assessment of available alternatives, and the ability to minimize losses, resolve disputes and maximize value. Our attorneys have significant experience representing troubled companies, trustees, secured and unsecured creditors, official and ad hoc committees, equity holders, owners, managers and other constituents in financial distress, workout, turnaround, restructuring, planning and bankruptcy scenarios—both in and out of court. Our Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy Department, along with two of its partners, are proud to be ranked in the Chambers USA 2023 legal directory.
www.grayreed.com
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

For more than 120 years, Hunton Andrews Kurth has served clients across the globe with a collaborative and purposeful approach. With offices strategically located in the United States and around the world, the firm is known for its strength in the energy, financial services, real estate, and retail and consumer products industries, as well as its considerable depth across numerous practice areas. Hunton fosters a strong culture built upon an unwavering commitment to its clients, colleagues, and communities. We have 22 full-time restructuring lawyers located in Houston, Dallas, Richmond and New York City. Our practice focuses on representing parties in out-of-court and bankruptcy court financial restructurings across the country and clients include private-equity firms, hedge funds, secured lenders, investors, debtors, unsecured creditors, boards of directors and various official and ad hoc committees. To learn more, please visit www.hunton.com. Hunton.com
Winstead

Winstead is a leading Texas-based law firm with national practices serving clients across the country. We focus on exceeding our clients’ expectations by providing innovative solutions to their business and legal opportunities and challenges. We work as a trusted counsel to public and private companies, governments, individuals, universities, and public institutions. Our business, transactions and litigation practices serve key industries including real estate, financial services, investment management and private funds, higher education and P3, airlines, healthcare and life sciences, sports business and wealth management. Winstead.com

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44th Annual Jay L. Westbrook

Bankruptcy Conference

Live Webcast Nov 19-21, 2025 $795 Individual $715 Group rate per person (5 registrants minimum) $635 Group rate per person (10 registrants minimum) $100 Add-on rate for in-person registrants

Register

Related products: Materials

Overview

Planning Committee

Eric M. Van Horn—Chair

April Rogers—Director

Hon. John C. Akard

R. Byrn "Byrnie" Bass Jr.

Pam Bassel

Hon. Christopher G. Bradley

Megan F. Clontz

Brian T. Cumings

Sean B. Davis

Abbey Ulsh Dreher

Ashley L. Harper

Hon. Stacey G. C. Jernigan

Erin E. Jones

Aaron M. Kaufman

Deborah B. Langehennig

Demetra Liggins

Angela Littwin

Ryan Manns

Timothy A. Million

Kelli S. Norfleet

Jay H. Ong

Michael R. Rochelle

Cristina Rodriguez

Charlie Shelton

William L. Wallander

Jay L. Westbrook

Deborah D. Williamson

Megan Young-John

Key Dates

Venue

Four Seasons Hotel

Accommodations

Parking Information

Additional Information

Our Sponsors

Riveron Consulting

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