8:00 AM Conference Registration Open Vaquero ABC 8:00 Am – 4:30 pm 8:00 AM continental breakfast Vaquero D 8:00 Am – 9:00 Am 8:00 AM exhibit hall open Vaquero D 8:00 Am – 4:30 am 9:00 AM Order In The Court! Enjoy a lively discussion among our premier bankruptcy Judges panel who will discuss the issues and conflicts that affect our day-to-day operations. Benjamin R. Levinson, Esq., Law Office of Benjamin R. Levinson (Moderator) The Honorable Scott C. Clarkson, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, Central District of California The Honorable Peter Wentworth Bowie, Chief Judge, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of California The Honorable Stephen L. Johnson, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, Northern District of California The Honorable Eileen W. Hollowell, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Arizona Vaquero ABC 9:00 Am – 10:15 Am Business Casual 10:40 AM Legislative Update: California and Washington Our Legislative Update panel will provide us with detailed summaries of the key issues and bills addressed this year by the California and Washington legislatures. Amongst several other bills, the panel will focus on California's Homeowner's Bill of Rights and Washington's mediation laws. Ronald D. Roup, Esq., Roup & Associates (Moderator) Phillip M. Adleson, Esq., Adleson, Hess & Kelly, UTA Corporate Counsel Michael Belote, Esq., California Advocates, UTA California Lobbyist Holly Chisa, HPC Advocacy, UTA Washington Lobbyist T. Robert Finlay, Esq., Wright, Finlay & Zak Vaquero ABC 10:40 am – 11:55 Am Business Casual 12:00 PM Lunch & Annual Meeting of Members During lunch we will hear from a representative of the California/Nevada Attorney General's office and we will honor the 2012 Dorothy Schick Veteran Member of the Year and the 2012 Suzanne Kelly New Member of the Year. The Annual Meeting will include Board Elections for 2012. T. Robert Finlay, Esq., Wright Finlay & Zak, UTA President Vaquero ef 12:00 Pm – 1:15 pm Business Casual 1:30 PM Trustees Roundtable This session will allow trustees to exchange information concerning operations and best practices. Among the many topics to be discussed are: the drop in Trustee sales in Nevada; how sales are progressing in Nevada and what type of loans (and for which clients) Trustees are recording NODs. Felita Kealing, LPS Agency Sales & Posting Michael Le, NBS Default Services Deborah Kaufman, Regional Trustee Services Chet Sconyers, First American Trustee Servicing Solutions Vaquero ABC 1:30 Pm – 2:45 pm Business Casual 3:00 PM Eviction and Foreclosure Delay Tactics This session will address – from the Trustee's perspective – getting ready for court; what you need to know and what to expect with respect to eviction and foreclosure delay tactics. The panel will specifically discuss (a) documents requested by an eviction attorney and preparing for court as a witness and (b) expectations on the day of court, including bench trial and jury trial. Edward Treder, Esq., Barrett Daffin Frappier Treder & Weiss, LLP Mark Blackman, Esq., Alpert Barr & Grant Vaquero ABC 3:00 Pm – 3:30 pm Business Casual 3:35 PM Fraud and Foreclosure Scams Trustees are seeing several different types of fraud. These include fraudulent BK filings, where a borrower grant deeds a partial interest to a debtor already in bankruptcy, and the debtor may or may not be aware of the conveyance. This bankruptcy stay delays the foreclosure by months. By the time the beneficiary gets relief in one bankruptcy case, borrower grant deeds a partial interest to another debtor in bankruptcy. Another involves fraudulent reconveyances, where a borrower or a borrower's friend signs a substitution of trustee and reconveyance of the deed of trust, which also delays the trustee sale, and forces the beneficiary to file a lawsuit to revive the deed of trust. Another scam: after the borrower reconveys the deed of trust, the borrower then sells the property to a third party, and conveys it. This session will examine how to handle such scams. Kevin Danford, FBI Stephen Robinson, Deputy District Attorney, San Diego County Vaquero ABC 3:35 Pm – 4:05 pm Business Casual 3:15 PM Certification Challenge: Arizona Level I, Nevada Level I, Washington Level I, Oregon Level 1, Utah Level 1 California Level I and Level II Here's your chance to take UTA's certification exam and become a UTA certified Trustee Sale Officer without sitting through the course. UTA certification is designed so that employers and consumers alike will have the confidence in the recipient's thorough knowledge of the nonjudicial foreclosure process. Non-members may take the exam(s) but may not be certified unless they become a member within 60 days of sitting for and passing the exam. The certification challenge is also offered at 3:15 pm on Tuesday. (Registration fee does not include cost of exam) TBD 3:15 Pm – 4:15 pm Business Casual Copyright 2012 - United Trustees Association