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More reported bankruptcy decisions now than any time ever.  30-70 decisions a day being reported compared to 10-25 in past years, with probably double or triple the number of commercial decisions coming down than before.  ... Read full article

Too busy to blog, but still trying to tweet cases daily that I think you'll find of interest (and perhaps even helpful to one of your current cases).  RSS Feeds are also available.  These are my tweets since my last blog post at the end of January: ... Read full article

Below are my twitter posts since my last post of May 29 of recent cases that might be of interest to you.  RSS Feeds are also available.    ... Read full article

And so, it appears, 19 years of hell for the remaining surviving heirs of J. Howard Marshall II come near an end.  Here's the chronology: ... Read full article

As first noted here , I've been posting nearly daily on Twitter a bankruptcy case highlight or development that I don't want to clutter this blog with.  RSS Feeds are also available, so you don't need a Twitter account to access them. Here ... Read full article

Whatever you may think about the fact that Refco's outside corporate counsel, Joe Collins, was convicted on 5 criminal counts and sentenced today to 7 years in prison , one has to wonder how the system got so turned upside down on the civil side that ... Read full article

Listening to Kevin O'Keefe at the Emory Symposium describe twittering as perhaps the most important branding tool since the advent of television (an obvious exaggeration, but point taken), I decided to finally start Twittering as a complement to ... Read full article

Back in the good old days when bashing BAPCPA was in vogue, I posited here that BAPCPA's "debt relief agency" provisions "look more like an effort to create a consumer bankruptcy lawyer clone who, much like the ever-multiplying ... Read full article

Here are my Twitter posts for the past week.  RSS Feeds are also available. ... Read full article

No shortage of interesting cases.  Here are a few that I posted on Twitter this past week.  RSS Feeds are also available ... Read full article

When reading recent US Supreme Court opinions interpreting BAPCPA, the statute's manifest flaws are the "elephant in the room" (origins of phrase here ), and Justice Kagan's recent opinion for the Court in Ransom v. FIA Card Services , ... Read full article

[ 9/3/2010 Update:   Here's a transcript of the panel discussion published in the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal.] ... Read full article

Last year I spent about 75 hours creating an outline on the treatment of intellectual property licenses in bankruptcy for a PLI seminar, which I published here .  ... Read full article

Busy lawyers often assume that it's ok to skip a ministerial presentment hearing and await the Court's order scheduling a hearing on the merits.  Today's opinion from the 7th Circuit in United States v. ... Read full article

Here are my tweets for this past week, though expanded into plain english.  RSS Feeds are also available for those seeking instant gratification: ... Read full article

Here are my tweets for this past week, though expanded into plain english.  RSS Feeds are also available for those wanting them individually organized: ... Read full article

As noted in this post , last week I started posting on Twitter, which has a 140 character limit per post.  These are my posts for the week ended 3/14/2010: ... Read full article