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Bankruptcy Bill #24: Bankruptcy Song Contest Winner!

BankruptcyBill — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:58:06 +0000

At long last, we’re ready to announce the winner and runner-up of Bankruptcy Bill’s Bankruptcy Song Contest!

Thanks to everyone who submitted an bankruptcy song, to everyone who voted and shared their comments and to illustrator Gideon Kendall for suggesting the cartoon announcement prize idea.

Also thanks to our sponsors for their support of the first-ever (to our knowledge) Bankruptcy Song Contest and for collectively making a donation to the National Consumer Law Center in the amount of $25 for each song submitted (for which we received a nice thank you note from the NCLC’s Executive Director):

Bruce Weiner (Rosenberg Musso & Weiner) – NYBankruptcyNet (Brooklyn, NY)
George Haines & David Krieger (Haines & Krieger) (Las Vegas, NV)
Russell A. Demott – Charleston Bankruptcy Blog (Charleston, SC)
Nancy Rapoport (nancyrapoport.blogspot.com), the Gordon Silver Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law (UNLV)

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2nd Place

Congratulations also to Arlene Robins of Woodbury, NY for her wonderful submission “BANKRUPTCY WIFE’S LAMENT”. Arlene will receive a t-shirt (or other item from our fabulous catalog of BAPCPA Man and Bankruptcy Bill merchandise on Zazzle. (Note: Arlene is the wife of good-humored Long Island bankruptcy attorney Craig Robins, who also has an excellent song entry titled “DEBT-FREE GIRL”.)

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The Bankruptcy Song Submissions

Once again, here are the song entries for Bankruptcy Bill’s Bankruptcy Song Contest:

1. “AMEND IT MY WAY” by Judge Sheri Bluebond (United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California)

2. CABARET” by Judge Sheri Bluebond (United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California) (Click song title or scroll down the page to see lyrics.)

3. “DON’T CRY FOR ME HOUSEHOLD FINANCE” by Judge Sheri Bluebond (United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California)

4. “DEBTS IN WRONG PLACES” by Judge Alan S. Trust (United States Bankruptcy Judge, Eastern District of New York)

5. “‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE FILING” by Mark Sippel, Esq. (Sippel & Carroll PLLC (Kingman, AZ))

6. “PHARAOH OBAMA – LET THE DEBTORS GO” by Mark Sippel, Esq. (Sippel & Carroll PLLC (Kingman, AZ))

7. “THE BANKRUPTCY ABUSE SONG” by Mark Sippel, Esq. (Sippel & Carroll PLLC (Kingman, AZ))

8. “DEBT-FREE GIRL” by Craig Robins, Esq. (Woodbury, NY)

9. “BANKRUPTCY WIFE’S LAMENT” by Arlene Robins (Woodbury, NY)

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BONUS!

And if you just can’t get enough bankruptcy music, CLICK HERE to hear “Bankruptcy Lover“ by Bankruptcy Bill & The Fresh Starts.

If the anti-Consumer Finance Protection Agency people ran Toyota . . .

BankruptcyBill — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:19:14 +0000

Thanks to the Center for Responsible Lending for posting a great cartoon from Pixton.com that calls out the weakness of the arguments being made against the creation of a Consumer Finance Protection Agency.

Overruled! – “Healthcare for lawyers” – by Joseph Aronds, Esq.

BankruptcyBill — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:27:10 +0000

Here’s another Overruled! cartoon by Joseph Aronds, Esq., Assistant Vice President at Hartz Mountain, whose cartoons have been running for the past two years in the New Jersey Association of Corporate Counsel’s monthly publication ACC Focus on the New Jersey Chapter. Joe was also recently appointed Vice President of Communications for NJCCA, which ran a nice profile of him here. Joe can be reached at joseph.aronds [at] hartzmountain.com.

Also, thanks to Joe for mentioning Bankruptcy Bill in the Member Notes section of their February 8, 2010 issue.

BAPCPA Man #18: BAPCPA Man vs Mortgantua – Part 6 – Max Gardner’s Bankruptcy Bootcamp

BankruptcyBill — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:30:25 +0000

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We check back in with our bankruptcy super hero in his battle to save a homeowner against the ominous and powerful Mortgantua. Things were looking grim, but perhaps there is hope. Click here for a refresher on ongoing the BAPCPA Man vs Mortgantua saga.

For more information on Max Gardner’s Bankruptcy Bootcamp, go to MaxBankruptcyBootcamp.com. Click here to see the ABC News Nightline feature on Max Gardner’s Bankruptcy Bootcamp. And click here to see the Wikipedia entry on Max’s eponymous grandfather who served a term as governor of North Carolina from 1929-33.

For additional information on mortgage and foreclosure, here are a few blog posts:

Bruce Weiner (Rosenberg Musso & Weiner) – NYBankruptcyNet (Brooklyn, NY)

No Mortgage Cramdown Bill for Christmas

Haines & Krieger (Las Vegas, NV)

Eugene Melchionne, Esq. – ConsumerBankruptcyTips.com (Waterbury, CT)

Attorney Melchionne featured in NYTimes article on family’s fight against foreclosure in Connecticut

The Credit CARD Act of 2009….animated!

BankruptcyBill — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:56:37 +0000

Bankruptcy Bill is pleased to welcome the Credit CARD Act of 2009, which went effective today, February 22, 2010, with an appropriate animated video commentary by Mark Fiore (www.MarkFiore.com).

Update 2/23/10: Forgot to mention that we saw this video posted originally on the Center for Responsible Lending website:

Overruled! – “Tears of a Clown” – by Joseph Aronds, Esq.

BankruptcyBill — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:08:55 +0000

Also, thanks to Joe for mentioning Bankruptcy Bill in the Member Notes section of their February 8, 2010 issue.

Bankruptcy Bill #23: Neiger LLP Preference Action 3000!

BankruptcyBill — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:02:37 +0000

Apologies for the wait, but we finally have the first new Bankruptcy Bill cartoon of 2010 out, a customized cartoon courtesy of Neiger LLP.

Bankruptcy Bill #23: Neiger LLP Preference Action 3000
http://www.neigerllp.com/neiger-llp-preference-action-3000/

(CLICK IMAGE BELOW TO SEE THE FULL CARTOON ON THE NEIGER LLP WEBSITE)

FYI, we love coming up with original, customized cartoons. If you’d like one yourself, just get in touch with us at bill@bankruptcybill.us.

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Overruled! – “Groundhog Day” – by Joseph Aronds, Esq.

BankruptcyBill — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:02:09 +0000

Also, thanks to Joe for mentioning Bankruptcy Bill in the Member Notes section of their February 8, 2010 issue.

Overruled! – “Wrongful Eviction” – by Joseph Aronds, Esq.

BankruptcyBill — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:07:41 +0000

While the Bankruptcy Bill and BAPCPA Man cartoons are on hiatus for another week or so, we thought it would be nice to share another Overruled! cartoon by Joseph Aronds, Esq., Assistant Vice President at Hartz Mountain, whose cartoons have been running for the past two years in the New Jersey Association of Corporate Counsel’s monthly publication ACC Focus on the New Jersey Chapter. Joe was also recently appointed Vice President of Communications for NJCCA, which ran a nice profile of him here. Joe can be reached at joseph.aronds [at] hartzmountain.com.

Overruled! “Super Lawyer” – by Joseph Aronds, Esq.

BankruptcyBill — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:02:30 +0000

Bankruptcy Bill was recently introduced to another lawyer with an affinity for cartoons:

Joseph Aronds, Esq., Assistant Vice President at Hartz Mountain, has been writing a cartoon called Overruled! for the past two years for the New Jersey Association of Corporate Counsel’s monthly publication ACC Focus on the New Jersey Chapter. Joe was also recently appointed Vice President of Communications for NJCCA, which ran a nice profile of him here.

We asked Joe if he’d be interested in having his cartoons posted on the Bankruptcy Bill site as well and he said, “Sure!” We hope our readers enjoy the cartoons and would also like to extend special thanks to bankruptcy attorney Sharon Levine of Lowenstein Sandler PC for introducing us. You can get in touch with Joe at joseph.aronds [at] hartzmountain.com.

(Joe wishes to acknowledge Seth Wimpfheimer’s help with the coloring.)