• “Public Corruption: Maximizing the Recovery Of Damages,” presented at a conference of the County Counsels’ Association of California.  Click here to read the written materials from that presentation on legal remedies for public corruption.
• “The Bankruptcy Examiner,” published in the California Bankruptcy Journal. Click here to read that article on the bankruptcy examiner.
• Post–Purdue: Dr. Strange’s Interdimensional Magic,”  presented at the 37^th Annual Insolvency Conference of the California Bankruptcy Forum on May 16, 2025. Click here to read the written materials (without slides) from that program.
• “Third-Party Releases Post-Purdue,” presented at the ABI 2024-2025 Consumer Practice Extravaganza. Click here to read the written materials from that presentation.
• “Mediating Consumer Credit Disputes under the FCRA and FDCPA in District Court and Bankruptcy Court,” presented as part of a training program for new panel mediators of the ADR Program of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Click here to read the written materials from that presentation.
• “Stare decisis lite in the U.S. Supreme Court,” published in Los Angeles Daily Journal. Click here to see the article.
• “Banking on Compliance,” published in Los Angeles Daily Journal (April 10, 2009) (re Ponzi schemes, Bank Secrecy Act, and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network). 
• “Are bankruptcy criminal referrals sad or not sad?,” published in Los Angeles Daily Journal (Dec. 10, 2018) ( re 18 U.S.C. sections 158(d) and 3057). Click here to read that article.
• “Marino II: Ninth Circuit Lacked Jurisdiction to Review BAP’s Decision on Contempt Sanctions for Discharge Injunction Violation and Affirmed BAP’s Denial of Appellate Fees,” published in the California Lawyers Association Business Law News 1:19 (2021). Click here to read that article.
• “Purdue Pharma correctly interprets the bankruptcy code,” published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal (July 17, 2024). Click here to read that article.
• Multiple ILC E-Bulletins for the Insolvency Law Committee of the Business Law Section of the California Lawyers Section.
  • A copy of a May 2021 ILC E-Bulletin on Taggart and the discharge injunction can be read at this link: https://calawyers.org/business-law/in-re-taggart-980-f-3d-1340-9th-cir-2020/.
  • A copy of a September 2023 ILC E-Bulletin on third-party releases and the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case can be read at this link:
    https://calawyers.org/business-law/purdue-pharma-l-p-v-city-of-grande-prairie-in-re-pharma-l-p-69-f-4th-45-2nd-cir-2023/.
  • A copy of a July 2023 ILC E-Bulletin on third-party preliminary injunctions in chapter 11 cases in the Ninth Circuit can be read at this link: https://calawyers.org/business-law/in-re-mariner-health-cent-inc-2023-bankr-lexis-95-bankr-n-d-cal-2023/.
  • A copy of a February 2024 ILC E-Bulletin that describes the oral argument of Purdue Pharma in the Supreme Court can be read at this link: https://calawyers.org/business-law/supreme-court-hears-oral-argument-in-purdue-pharma-case/.
  • A copy of a July 2024 ILC E-Bulletin on Purdue Pharma can be read at this link: https://calawyers.org/business-law/the-5-4-purdue-pharma-majority-decision/.
  • A copy of a March 2025 ILC E-Bulletin on recent developments in the Purdue Pharma case can be read at this link: https://calawyers.org/business-law/recent-developments-in-the-purdue-pharma-case/.
  • A copy of a September 2025 ILC E-Bulletin on recent developments (including receivership and judgment-preservation insurance issues) in the Kelley v. BMO Harris Bank N.A. case can be read at this link: https://calawyers.org/business-law/reversal-of-1-billion-judgment-kelley-v-bmo-harris-bank-n-a/ .
  • A copy of a January 2026 ILC E-Bulletin on the Purdue Pharma case can be read at this link: https://calawyers.org/business-law/purdue-pharmas-plan-is-confirmed-with-opt-in-third-party-releases-of-sacklers/.

Mr. Gumport has served as a member of the Board of Editors of the California Bankruptcy Journal. He also has served as a panelist in presentations to the ABA Criminal Justice-White Collar Crime Committee (West Coast Region), the American Association of Insolvency Accountants, the California Bankruptcy Forum, the CalCPA Litigation Section, the Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the County Counsels’ Association of California, the Federal Bar Association, the Financial Lawyers Conference of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum, the Greater Inland Empire Municipal Law Association, and the Transportation Lawyers Association.

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