News Topic: Bankruptcy Data

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The latest data from Epiq Systems are available, and they confirm my estimate last month of just over 1.0 million bankruptcy filings for the 2013 calendar year. Epiq Systems reports 96,430 bankruptcy filings for the month of May. Spread over the 22 ... Read full article

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My colleague, Professor Pamela Foohey , has just posted a paper on SSRN about religious organizations that have filed chapter 11. While the Roman Catholic dioceses bankruptcies have grabbed a lot of attention, Foohey identifies 509 other cases filed by ... Read full article

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A friend wrote me and pointed out that Chief Justice Roberts's annual report noted that bankruptcy filings had declined in "89 of the 90 bankruptcy courts." He wondered which court was the exception, and for that sort of information, he ... Read full article

Immigration issues continue to be a major political football, and the work of Jean Braucher, Bob Lawless, and Dov Cohen on race in bankruptcy garnered front-page NY Times attention this year. This makes the publication of Chrystin Ondersma 's paper ... Read full article

Good times in the economy mean goods times a few years later for bankruptcy professionals who deal with consumer cases.  We saw this from the mid-1990s through the 2000s. The last big party in the bankruptcy world was in 2010 (1.5 million non-business ... Read full article

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I have just finished reading Lois Lupica’s paper on her impressive consumer bankruptcy fee study .  This is a model of what empirical, law-and-society research should be – it combines data from electronic court records with focus groups and key player ... Read full article

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In addition to a post last week  broadly raising visitors' physicial interaction with courts, an earlier post discussed variation in the website availability of daily calendars for U.S. bankruptcy courtrooms. ... Read full article

With half the year over, there is half of the year still to go. For our few readers who might actually know the quote--yes, that is a tribute to the legendary Murray Walker . Giving our place in the calendar year, it seemed like an appropriate time to ... Read full article

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The Credit Slips blog always has tried to offer perspectives from many different social sciences. That is why many readers may be distressed to learn of the attack on the American Community Survey (ACS) . If you do not do a lot of social science work, you ... Read full article

In connection with some ongoing research, I have noticed that U.S. bankruptcy courts have different approaches to informing the public about matters being taken up in open court. Many provide PDFs of court calls on their websites up to several weeks in ... Read full article