Surprisingly, the question of how to prove something was signed electronically arises relatively rarely. In Perry v. Ad Astra Recovery Services, Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri tackled the issue, finding that the ... Read full article
In a swan song before retiring from the bench, bankruptcy judge James Gregg penned an interesting decision in In re Hale , 2014 WL 2922347 (Bankr. W.D. Mich. 2014) touching on an attorney's obligation to do an on-line real estate search before filing ... Read full article
Released on PRNewswire a few days ago was a press release about the first bankruptcy court order approving electronic balloting procedures in a Chapter 11 case. Using a system developed by claims agent Upshot Services LLC , the Chapter 11 trustee for Pitt ... Read full article
"High up in the pristine White Mountains of Northern Arizona, is a place where...truth and honesty are hard to find, if at all.." [ Fair use ] So starts Lynnell Levingston's 2008 memoir of politics in Springerville, Arizona. In 2009, ... Read full article
In the bankruptcy world, matching sellers of distressed assets with potential buyers has always caused difficulties - usually resulting in reduced sale prices and relative bargains. For large capital assets - like the Polaroid patent portfolio , or ... Read full article
The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently released its decision in the ongoing debate over whether the Qimonda AG bankruptcy estate gets to ruin the world's semiconductor industry. For those unfamiliar with the complex, but important, ... Read full article
Back in August, the Judicial Conference for the United States Courts released for comments proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure , including revisions to FRBP 5005 that will effectively limit the types of electronic signatures ... Read full article
A true digital currency is the holy grail of the on-line world. Since the start of the Internet, a long series of folks have been trying to find the on-line equivalent of cash - some kind of digital token that is secure, easy to transfer and, for most of ... Read full article
Reading a recent Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, I spotted an item in the Bar Discipline column that highlighted the dangers of not staying up to date with technology. A litigation attorney, let's call him Paul, failed to understand the rules governing ... Read full article
Released on PRNewswire a few days ago was a press release about the first bankruptcy court order approving electronic balloting procedures in a Chapter 11 case. Using a system developed by claims agent Upshot Services LLC , the Chapter 11 trustee for Pitt ... Read full article
As a Chapter 7 panel trustee, I sometimes annoy (to use a mild term) the occasional party - either because they don't understand the bankruptcy process, have an inflated sense of self-entitlement, or merely because my actions are inimical to their ... Read full article
Reuters reports that Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox has filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan, after disclosing that it lost about $480 million dollars in Bitcoin to hackers. ... Read full article
A true digital currency is the holy grail of the on-line world. Since the start of the Internet, a long series of folks have been trying to find the on-line equivalent of cash - some kind of digital token that is secure, easy to transfer and, for most of ... Read full article
Reading a recent Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, I spotted an item in the Bar Discipline column that highlighted the dangers of not staying up to date with technology. A litigation attorney, let's call him Paul, failed to understand the rules governing ... Read full article
Back in August, the Judicial Conference for the United States Courts released for comments proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure , including revisions to FRBP 5005 that will effectively limit the types of electronic signatures ... Read full article
"High up in the pristine White Mountains of Northern Arizona, is a place where...truth and honesty are hard to find, if at all.." [ Fair use ] So starts Lynnell Levingston's 2008 memoir of politics in Springerville, Arizona. In 2009, ... Read full article
The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently released its decision in the ongoing debate over whether the Qimonda AG bankruptcy estate gets to ruin the world's semiconductor industry. For those unfamiliar with the complex, but important, ... Read full article
Courts do not agree on the issue of domain names as property. Some courts treat domain names as a contract right between the domain name holder and the registrar. Other courts recognize domain names as a separate form of intangible property . ... Read full article
In the bankruptcy world, matching sellers of distressed assets with potential buyers has always caused difficulties - usually resulting in reduced sale prices and relative bargains. For large capital assets - like the Polaroid patent portfolio , or ... Read full article
You would think that air should be free, but of course air, or at least the right to send signals through it, has not been free for some time. The FCC controls the right to use air to transmit information, divvying the air up into all sorts of frequencies ... Read full article
