BankruptcyLawNetwork

Consumer bankruptcy lawyers are among the most unappreciated and underpaid people in the entire bankruptcy system.

On a time spent basis, we rarely get paid our full hourly rate for the time we put into each case.

On a benefit to our client basis, we usually get only a tiny percentage of the financial benefit received.

Your Bankruptcy Attorney and you are a team, no doubt about it.  So, please choose your bankruptcy attorney wisely because you are going to be spending quite a bit of time with him or her and their staff.  Since the new bankruptcy law took effect in October 2005, the amount of paperwork in bankruptcy has [...]

Capital One violated the bankruptcy discharge thousands of times and got caught, as was recently reported by the Wall Street Journal.  It filed claims in second bankruptcy cases based upon debts which were already discharged in earlier cases. As my colleague Andy Miofsky wrote, “There is a reason Capital One Bank portrays credit card banks as a horde [...]

Why would anyone take out an Internet payday loan?  Bankruptcy lawyers scream this out loud at least once a week.  It tends to frighten the neighbors. Small, high interest loans are often the last gasp effort folks use to make payments on other debt (like mortgage or car loans) — before they give in and [...]