News Topic: Judge Jeff Bohm

The rift in the bankruptcy universe created by Viegelahn v. Frost (Matter of Frost) , 744 F.3d 384 (5th Cir. 2014) continues to widen, drawing more exemptions into its vortex in seeming disregard of Supreme Court precedent.   The latest opinion to come ... Read full article

The importance of alternate dispute resolution to  resolve cases is enshrined in federal law, 28 U.S.C. ... Read full article

Texas bankruptcy judge Jeff Bohm has ruled that a chapter 7 debtor who sold his homestead over a year after filing bankruptcy could not keep the portion of the proceeds when he failed to reinvest them within six months.  In re Smith , 2014 Bankr. LEXIS ... Read full article

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Some time ago, I wrote about John Gellene , the silk-stocking lawyer who went to prison for failure to disclose his connections in a high dollar case. ... Read full article

Some time ago, I wrote about John Gellene , the silk-stocking lawyer who went to prison for failure to disclose his connections in a high dollar case. ... Read full article

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This is a paper that I did for the Austin Bar Association summarizing the Texas cases applying Stern v. Marshall to date.   Please note that where the holding is indented, I am directly quoting the opinion.   I also used the following key for highlighting ... Read full article