Terms of Use

These terms

This website is published by the National Bankruptcy Conference (the “Conference”). By using nbconf.org you agree to these terms. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the site.

What this site is

The site is a public record of the Conference’s work: its letters to Congress, testimony, committee reports, proposals and meeting minutes, together with material describing how the Conference operates. It is published for information.

Not legal advice

Nothing on this site is legal advice, and nothing on it creates an attorney-client relationship with the Conference or with any of its members. The Conference’s positions are statements about how the bankruptcy laws should read, addressed to the people who write and administer them. They are not advice about anyone’s circumstances. If you need advice about a matter of your own, consult a lawyer.

The documents in the library

Each document in the library is what the Conference filed or published on the date shown. It has not been revised to reflect later changes in the law, and a position taken years ago may since have been superseded. Where a document is available from its original source — a congressional record, a court docket, a rules committee file — that original governs.

Ask the Library

Ask the Library answers questions using a language model working from the Conference’s own documents, and shows the passages it relied on. It can still be wrong, incomplete, or out of date. Treat an answer as a pointer to the documents, not as a substitute for reading them, and check anything you intend to rely on against the source. Please do not enter confidential, privileged or client information.

Members-only area

Access to the conferees’ area is granted to members of the Conference for their own use. Keep your sign-in details to yourself and do not share your access with anyone else. Material in that area is circulated within the Conference and is not to be redistributed outside it without the Conference’s permission. Conferees who share the Conference's private material may lose access to the conferee-only login or face other disciplinary actions.

Using the material

The Conference’s original documents and the text of this site belong to the Conference or to their respective authors. You are welcome to read, print, quote and link to them for scholarship, teaching, journalism, legislative work and similar purposes, with attribution to the Conference and to the document. 

Nothing here restricts your use of materials that are in the public domain, including federal government documents.

Acceptable use

• Do not attempt to gain access to any part of the site, or any account, that is not open to you.
• Do not interfere with the site’s operation, or place an automated load on it that disrupts its use by others.
• Do not misrepresent yourself as speaking for the Conference, and do not present its documents in a way that misstates what they say.

Links to other sites

The site links to material held elsewhere, including on congressional, court and law school websites. Those sites are not under the Conference’s control, and a link is not an endorsement of what they contain.

No warranty

The site and everything on it are provided as they are, without warranties of any kind, express or implied. The Conference does not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that the material on it is accurate, complete or current.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, neither the Conference nor its members, officers or contributors are liable for any loss or damage arising out of the use of this site or reliance on anything published on it.

Changes

The Conference may change this site, and these terms, at any time. A revised version of these terms will be posted on this page with a new effective date, and applies to use of the site from that date.

Contact

Questions about these terms, about permission to republish, or about anything else on this site go to the Administrative Director at ccschnapp@nbconf.org. Other ways to reach the Conference are on the Contact page. How the Conference handles information collected through the site is described in the Privacy Policy.