Bankruptcy Blogs

Milavetz: U.S. Supreme Court To Bankruptcy Lawyers -- You Are Debt Relief Agencies

03/08/10

 Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P.A. v. United States, No. 08-1119 (March 9, 2010) (click here for opinion). The majority opinion was written by Justice Sotomayor.   Justices Scalia and Thomas filed opinions concurring in part in the opinion, and the judgment.

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Please "Follow Me on Twitter"

03/07/10

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 blogging.  I started this blog in 2005

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Legal Ethics and Web 2.0: Revisiting the "Law of the Horse"

03/05/10

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

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On The Rise: Bankruptcy Dollar Amounts Will Increase On April 1, 2010

03/02/10

It hasn't gotten much publicity yet, but certain dollar amounts in the Bankruptcy Code will be increased for cases filed on or after April 1, 2010. You can find a chart listing all of the changes on this Federal Register page, which printed last month's official notice from the Judicial Conference of the United States.

Among the most meaningful increases for Chapter 11 and other business bankruptcy cases:

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On The Rise: Bankruptcy Dollar Amounts Will Increase On April 1, 2010

03/02/10

It hasn't gotten much publicity yet, but certain dollar amounts in the Bankruptcy Code will be increased for cases filed on or after April 1, 2010. You can find a chart listing all of the changes on this Federal Register page, which printed last month's official notice from the Judicial Conference of the United States.

Among the most meaningful increases for Chapter 11 and other business bankruptcy cases:

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11th Circuit Confirms That Potential Claims And Lawsuits Must Be Diclosed Or A Debtor Will Be Judicially Estopped From Pursuing Them.

02/28/10

There have been several cases over the years dismissing lawsuits by Debtors who failed to list the claim as an asset in their Bankruptcy schedules.  As the opinion below confirms, the same duty applies where the claim arose after the filing of a Chapter 13 case and even where the Debtor proposed to pay, and in fact did pay, all claims in full through a Chapter 13 plan.

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Recession In Real Life

02/22/10

Has anybody stopped to look at real people, and not just to discuss economic theory.

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