Strip #16 – GM First Day Hearings
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Thank you to everyone who supported Bankruptcy Bill with a donation and/or by mentioning our effort on your site, including LawShucks.com which encouraged readers to support Bankruptcy Bill in a post about the lawyers involved in the GM case and then subsequently got itself a nice mention in a New York times articles on law firms that resulted in some extra traffic for us.
But the super-priority secured thank-you (a new creditor class recently approved by the…um….Eastern Western District of Delaware) goes to three people who stepped forward at the last minute, each making donations of $39 to ensure an extension of time to solicit donations for Bankruptcy Bill (at least for another week):
- Nancy Rapoport, (who has now donated twice) the Gordon Silver Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, with specialties in bankruptcy ethics, ethics in governance, and the depiction of lawyers in popular culture. She’s also the author of the book Enron: Corporate Fiascos and Their Implications (with Jeffrey Van Niel) and appeared in the movie Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. You can read her blog here.
- Marc Carroll, of Translations.com (a rare non-lawyer fan)
- Walter Swett, a staff member in Congressman Charlie Rangel’s office in New York (another non-lawyer fan, which on second thought perhaps isn’t so rare afterall)
Bankruptcy Bill loves you guys (to the extent that an animated lawyer is capable of love) and thanks you for not only enabling the publication of this strip, but for starting off the next strip $78 in the black. And the next strip is……..
Strip #17 – BAPCPA Man!
Does whatever a BAPCPA can. Please do your part to help us raise the remaining $222 we need to publish it.
CLICK HERE to make a donation via PayPal for Strip #17
- Please don’t make Nancy, Marc, Walter and the others do all the work again (unless your goal is to turn them into clients). If everyone chips in a little bit, even $1.00, the pain will be spread nice and evenly and everything will work out fine, just like in the new GM tv ad.
A reminder that we are always open to various forms of STR.I.P. Financing to help us continue to publish future strips of Bankruptcy Bill (ideally with more frequency). Please contact us to discuss sponsorship or syndication opportunities.
- “GM First Day Hearings”
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- Here are links to see more of Gideon Kendall’s creative artwork as well as his Sketch Journal and a recent profile of Gideon in the Kensington Brooklyn Blog.
Thanks!
-Bill & Struck
p.s. Regarding copyright issues, our legal counsel, IP Aileen, says: “Other bloggers/websites/publications: You are more than welcome to post Strip #16 on your sites as long as you also include all of the text, links and images in this post, including this paragraph. If you fail to respect our wishes, then we’ll turn you into a Weil Gotshal first-year bankruptcy associate and force you to spend 17 consecutive weekends in the bowels of 767 Fifth Avenue (aka the “GM Building”) working on fee applications in the GM case.”
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Tags: Bankruptcy law, Billing, GM Bankruptcy, Mega-cases
June 18th, 2009 at 11:41 am
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