Agenda

 This agenda is subject to change.

8:00 - 8:45 a.m.                  
Registration/ Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:10 a.m.                 
Welcome and Opening Remarks
 Phillip J. Closius, Dean
 University of Baltimore School of Law

 Cassandra Jones Havard
 Associate Professor

9:10 - 10:30 a.m.              
Session 1: 
Examining the Problem: Systemic Credit Issues: Wall Street, the Banks and Consumers 
                

Michael W. Briggs
Counsel - Legal Division
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

David Brenbaum                                
Executive Vice-President,
National Reinvestment Coalition

Donna Gambrell
Director, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
U.S. Department of Treasury

Charles Shafer
Professor
University of Baltimore School of Law

Moderator:                  
Audrey McFarlane
Professor of Law
University of Baltimore School of Law
 
10:40 a.m. - noon                          
Session 2:
Delivering Reform: A Modernized Financial Regulatory  Structure


Ed Mierzwinski
Senior Fellow
Consumer Program
U.S. Public Interest Research Group

Jeffrey Mooney
Senior Special Counsel
Division of Trading and Markets                    
Securities and Exchange Commission

Mark Tenhundfeld
Senior Vice President
Office of Regulatory Policy
American Bankers Association

Christopher J. Young
Assistant Attorney General
State of Maryland
Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation

Moderator:                  
Kia Johnson
Clinical Fellow
University of Baltimore School of Law
 
12:15 - 1:15 p.m.
Lunch   
           
Luncheon Speaker:
The Honorable  Sarah Bloom Raskin
Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation
Lunch will be served in the lobby of the Law Center.

1:30 - 2:45 p.m.                
Session 3:
The Tax Law Implications of the Financial Crisis 


Arturo Estrada
Special Counsel to the Associate Chief Counsel
Financial Institutions and Products
Office of Chief Counsel
Internal Revenue Service

Larry Strauss
President         
Larry Strauss, Esq., CPA & Associates

Moderator:                             
Fred Brown
Associate Professor
University of Baltimore School of Law          

2:45 - 3:00                  
Closing Remarks