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Yra Harris on How BAPCPA Has "Flown Back in the Banks' Faces Good and Hard"

by admin | Thu, 08/26/2010 - 16:54

With little fanfare, Yra Harris, a veteran trader of Chicago's pits, started blogging his Notes From the Underground last December.  I learned about it last month from a good friend of his, and strongly recommend it to you.  Yra is a fre

Bankruptcy Tweets for the Week Ending 4/4/2010

by admin | Sun, 04/04/2010 - 01:44

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

Bankruptcy Tweets for the Week Ending 3/29/2010

by admin | Mon, 03/29/2010 - 12:00

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

Bankruptcy Tweets for the Week Ending 3/22/2010

by admin | Mon, 03/22/2010 - 14:33

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 are my posts for the week ended 3/22/2010:

9th Circuit Declares Anna Nicole Smith's Estate the Big Loser on Preclusion Grounds in Dispute with Pierce's Estate Over Her Right to Money from J. Howard Marshall's Estate

by admin | Sun, 03/21/2010 - 01:22

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:

Bankruptcy Tweets for the Week Ending 3/14/2010

by admin | Mon, 03/15/2010 - 01:22

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:

US Supreme Court on Justice Holmes' 169th B-day Holds in Milavetz that the Bankruptcy Code's Speech Restrictions on Attorneys Do Not Turn Them into Ruthless Drones

by admin | Mon, 03/08/2010 - 20:36

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

Please "Follow Me on Twitter"

by admin | Sun, 03/07/2010 - 01:38

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

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

by admin | Fri, 03/05/2010 - 01:11

Thanks to Emory University Law School, host of the 7th Annual Symposium of the Bankruptcy Developments Journal, for generously sponsoring my trip to Atlanta yesterday to participate in a panel discussion, moderated by my friend Mark Duedall, entitled Ethi

Cathy Vance, Resident Guru, Calls Expansive Invocation of the In Pari Delicto Defense a "Jurisprudential House of Cards"

by admin | Wed, 01/13/2010 - 22:48

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 while the law firm's lead lawyer is torched in crimi