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<p><br />&ldquo;Make no mistake. It&rsquo;s not over yet. There&rsquo;s plenty of hard work left for the city,&rdquo; said General William B. Lynch during the Distinguished Address at &ldquo;<a title="Photos of the event on Flickr" href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsksWPeRg" target="_blank">Bankruptcy and Beyond: Solving the Problem of Municipal Financial Distress</a>,&rdquo; held on Monday, April 14th on Widener Law&rsquo;s Harrisburg campus.</p>
<p>Lynch, the second receiver for the city of Harrisburg, was one of many experts on municipal bankruptcy, finance, and local government law who spoke at the well-attended event. He touched on the challenges facing Harrisburg during the process, including costly challenges presented by the Harrisburg incinerator, parking authority woes and costly sewer system requirements.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We decided we would recognize it wasn&rsquo;t a math problem. It was a people problem,&rdquo; Lynch said of efforts to find a positive solution that &ldquo;would help each of the parties find something positive in our proposed solution.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Lynch praised the &ldquo;world-class team&rdquo; put in place by his predecessor David Unkovic, who spoke during the day&rsquo;s first panel, Financing Municipalities.</p>
<p>Observing that local governments are &ldquo;inadequately protected in the bond market,&rdquo; Unkovic, who is now an attorney with McNees Wallace &amp; Nurick LLC in Lancaster, said, &ldquo;Financial institutions are intimately involved with these funds.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The student-run Widener Law Journal&nbsp;hosted the daylong conference. Professor Juliet M. Moringiello, who specializes in bankruptcy law and served as the Robert M. Zinman Resident Scholar at the American Bankruptcy Institute during the spring semester of 2010, spearheaded the program.</p>
<p>In addition to Lynch&rsquo;s distinguished address and the first panel featuring Unkovic, the day included opening remarks from Jarad Handelman, First Executive Deputy General Counsel to Governor Tom Corbett. Additional panel discussions included: Pensions and Other Hot Topics in Chapter 9 Cases; What is Unique about a Chapter 9 Case? The Judges&rsquo; Point of View; and Beyond Financial Restructuring: The Future of Today&rsquo;s Distressed Municipalities.</p>
<h3><a id="videos"></a>Videos of the Bankruptcy and Beyond Symposium</h3>
<p>Opening Remarks</p>
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<p>&nbsp;Panel One</p>
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<p>Panel Two</p>
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<p>Distinguished Lunch Address</p>
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<p>Panel Three</p>
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<p>Panel Four</p>
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<p>&nbsp;<strong>DISTINGUISHED ADDRESS:</strong><br /><br /><strong>General William Lynch</strong><br /><em>Former Receiver for the City of Harrisburg</em><br /><br /><strong>SPEAKERS:</strong><br /><br /><strong>Michelle Wilde Anderson</strong><br /><em>University of California, Berkeley School of Law</em><br /><br /><strong>Hon. Thomas Bennett</strong><br /><em>U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Alabama</em><br /><br /><strong>Christine Sgarlata Chung</strong><br /><em>Albany Law School</em><br /><br /><strong>Hon. Mary D. France</strong><br /><em>U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania</em><br /><br /><strong>Jarad Handelman</strong><br /><em>First Executive Deputy General Counsel to Governor Tom Corbett</em><br /><br /><strong>Mark Kaufman</strong><br /><em>McKenna Long &amp; Aldridge LLP</em><br /><br /><strong>Juliet M. Moringiello</strong><br /><em>Widener University School of Law</em><br /><br /><strong>Guy S. Neal</strong><br /><em>Sidley Austin LLP</em><br /><br /><strong>Matthew Parlow</strong><br /><em>Marquette University School of Law</em><br /><br /><strong>Randle Pollard</strong><br /><em>Indiana University Kelley School of Business</em><br /><br /><strong>Scott Pryor</strong><br /><em>Regent University School of Law</em><br /><br /><strong>Frank H. Shafroth</strong><br /><em>George Mason University</em><br /><br /><strong>David A. Skeel</strong><br /><em>University of Pennsylvania School of Law</em><br /><br /><strong>David Thornburgh</strong><br /><em>University of Pennsylvania Fels Institute of Government</em><br /><br /><strong>David Unkovic</strong><br /><em>McNees Wallace &amp; Nurick LLC</em></p>