Bankruptcy Blogs

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 [...]

"Bernard Madoff’s son Andrew must submit to a bankruptcy judge’s decision to permit a $198 million lawsuit to go forward because he sought that court’s protection when he filed a claim against his father’s estate, a federal judge said. U.S....

To all law profs out there who plan to attend next week's Association of American Law Schools annual meeting, be sure not to miss the Creditors' and Debtors' Rights section program Saturday morning at 8:30.   The theme of the program:  "Marathon at 30:  A Retrospective on Bankruptcy Court Jurisdiction in the Shadow of Article III."  Bankruptcy Judge J.

It's become a tool for enforcing the Fair Housing and Equal Credit Opportunity Acts, but regulators haven't provided a framework for banks to carry out the actual intent of the CRA - prudently serving community credit needs.