2025 Bankruptcy and Restructuring Forum

Date: Oct 10, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, and Online

Member Price: $203.00

Non-Member Price: $254.00

Section Price: $0.00

Event Code: I111125

Areas of Law: Bankruptcy

Earn up to 6.7 credits! (More Information)

Faculty

Keynote

Moderator

Carlos D. Martinez, Esq.
Law Office of Carlos D. Martinez, Iselin
Joseph M. Shapiro, Esq.
Partner, Middlebrooks Shapiro, P.C., Belmar
Joseph M. Shapiro is a Partner in Middlebrooks Shapiro, P.C. in Springfield, New Jersey. He concentrates his practice in commercial bankruptcy, individual bankruptcy, creditor/debtor representation and bankruptcy litigation.

Admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Mr. Shapiro was appointed to the New Jersey State Bar Association Cannabis Law Committee in 2019 and has been a member of the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey and the Turnaround Management Association. In 2012 he served as a volunteer attorney with the Honorable Morris Stern Bankruptcy pro bono project (the Rutgers-Newark Bankruptcy Pro Bono Project).

A lecturer for ICLE, Mr. Shapiro is a former Barrister of the Bankruptcy American Inn of Court and teaches business law to undergraduate students as an Adjunct Professor at Union County College. He has served as a continuing legal education presenter with Marino Legal CLE and as a Judge in the Vincent J. Appruzzese Mock Trial Competition.

Mr. Shapiro received his B.F.A., magna cum laude, from the Savannah College of Art & Design and his J.D. from Seton Hall University Law School. While a law student, he served as a research assistant to Professors Carl H. Coleman and Gaia Bernstein.

Presenters

Jeffrey Bernstein, Esq
McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP, Newark

Presented in Cooperation with the NJSBA Bankruptcy Law Section

The popular Bankruptcy and Restructuring Forum returns for 2025 with cutting edge topics that are vital to your practice!

Whether you are a Judge, a petitioner’s attorney, a creditor’s attorney or a trustee, you will end the day with information that you can immediately put to use in your practice.

The day includes breakfast, lunch and a wine and cheese reception following the program.

Topics include:

  • Emerging technology and bankruptcy - examining the Builder.ai bankruptcy and AI issues
  • Merchant cash advances - litigation and regulation updates
  • Cryptocurrency and digital assets - regulatory evolution and the GENIUS Act
  • Data privacy in bankruptcy - examining the 23andMe Bankruptcy Data Sale

CLE Credits
NJ CLE:NJ CLE information: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 6.7 hours of total CLE credit (Full Credits Available: NJ General: 6.7).
NY CLE (t&nt):NY Professional Practice Non-Transitional: 6.5
PA CLE:PA Substantive Credit: 5.5
New: No PACLE fee is required for this program. To earn PA CLE credits, a valid PA Bar ID number must be entered into the CLE form provided after attending the program.

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