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BLT (Bankruptcy Lawyer Topics) is a periodic review and comparison of consumer bankruptcy topics being covered on bankruptcy lawyer blogs.

Holding a J.D. and an International Affairs M.A. from Marquette University, Matt Leichter is an attorney licensed in Wisconsin and New York.  He speaks Japanese and focuses on comparative and international law, as well as international business.

• Click on BK Lawyer Blogs for a state-by-state list of bankruptcy lawyers with their own blogs.
• Have a blog or know a good blog post you think should be included? Or a suggestion for a future BLT theme?  Send an e-mail to BLT [at] bankruptcybill [dot] us with the link.
• Suggestion to bankruptcy lawyers with blogs: Make sure to include a “Search” function somewhere on your blog.  It makes it easier to find topical posts on your blog and increases the likelihood that a post from your blog will be included in BLT.

(In reverse order!)

GENERAL

American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) Bankruptcy Blog Exchange

• Shortcomings of Credit CARD Act
• New Consumer Credit Card Rules Take Effect
• Eighty Percent Interest on a Credit Card
• ¡MORE!

Bankruptcy Law Network

• How Will The New Credit Card Laws Affect Me?
• Will New Credit Card Rules Cause a Spike in Bankruptcy?

CreditSlips.org

• Reflections on Credit CARD Act Day

Consumer Law & Policy Blog

• New Credit Card Law Effective Tomorrow (Monday, February 22)

WISCONSIN

Jamie Miller, Esq. (Miller & Miller, LLC) – Milwaukee Bankruptcy Attorney Blog (Milwaukee, WI)

• Soon You Will Really Know What It Really Takes to Pay Off Your Credit Card Debt

***SEE MORE BLOG POSTS FROM BANKRUPTCY LAWYERS AROUND THE U.S.*** (more…)

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Bankruptcy Billables is an overview of bankruptcy-relevant coverage and discussion from various law-related blogs.

Holding a J.D. and an International Affairs M.A. from Marquette University, Matt Leichter is an attorney licensed in Wisconsin and New York.  He speaks Japanese and focuses on comparative and international law, as well as international business.

Law Shucks

• CEO Blames Lawyers for Company’s Bankruptcy

WSJ Bankruptcy Beat

• Maine Sends Hamstrung Negotiator to FairPoint Talks
• The Daily Docket: Air America Signs Off
• If at First You Don’t Succeed, Open Your Wallet
• Tribune Gets Bonus Jitters as Payday Nears
• The Daily Docket: Bankruptcy for MGM?
• Ex-Football Star Facing Bankruptcy, Foreclosure
• The Daily Docket: W.R. Grace Seeks New Loan
• Bankruptcy Gets Starring Role on Bravo
• The Daily Docket: JAL Launches Restructuring
• Hecker Accused of Concealing Assets from Bankruptcy Court

Creditslips.org

• There May Be More Financially Distressed Small Business Owners Than You Think
• On Break Up Fees
• How Many Bankruptcy Appeals?
• Chapter 11 Costs — Help?
• Life Imitates Art (or at Least My Final Exam)
• Usury and Securitization
• A Special Bankruptcy Court
• Visa Does Not Issue Cards or Extend Credit.

Going Concern

• Who Wants to Buy Nic Cage’s Haunted House?

Above The Law

• Morning Docket: 01.14.10
• Bankruptcy Judge to the Rescue of Poor Old Lady/Law School Grad
• Job of the Week: Bankruptcy Baller

Did we miss a good recent bankruptcy-related post on another blog?  E-mail bill [at] bankruptcybill [dot] us to let us know.

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BLT (Bankruptcy Lawyer Topics) is a periodic review and comparison of consumer bankruptcy topics being covered on bankruptcy lawyer blogs.

Holding a J.D. and an International Affairs M.A. from Marquette University, Matt Leichter is an attorney licensed in Wisconsin and New York (he’s celebrating Day 2 of his New York license by providing you with more BLT).  He speaks Japanese and focuses on comparative and international law, as well as international business.

• Click on BK Lawyer Blogs for a state-by-state list of bankruptcy lawyers with their own blogs.
• Have a blog or know a good blog post you think should be included? Or a suggestion for a future BLT theme?  Send an e-mail to BLT [at] bankruptcybill [dot] us with the link.
• Suggestion to bankruptcy lawyers with blogs: Make sure to include a “Search” function somewhere on your blog.  It makes it easier to find topical posts on your blog and increases the likelihood that a post from your blog will be included in BLT.

(We begin from the middle!…)

GENERAL

CreditSlips.org

• The Other Underwater Loans: Negative Equity in Auto Finance
• Calling All Article 9 Supernerds—Negative Equity and State Law

Consumer Law & Policy Blog

• Car Sales Plummet after Cash-for-Clunkers Program Ends

National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA)

• Eighth Circuit Allows Debtor to Claim Vehicle-Ownership Expense for Wholly-Owned Vehicle

NEVADA

Haines & Krieger (Las Vegas, NV)

• Five Warning Signs That You Are Headed for Bankruptcy
• Bankruptcy Myths

Black & LoBello Law Blog (Las Vegas, NV)

• Bankruptcy FAQ

***SEE MORE BLOG POSTS FROM BANKRUPTCY LAWYERS AROUND THE U.S.*** (more…)

BLT (Bankruptcy Lawyer Topics) is a periodic review and comparison of  consumer bankruptcy topics being covered on bankruptcy lawyer blogs.

Holding a J.D. and an International Affairs M.A. from Marquette University, Matt Leichter is a licensed attorney in Wisconsin and soon in New York (January 13, 2010!).  He speaks Japanese and focuses on comparative and international law, as well as international business.

• Click on BK Lawyer Blogs for a state-by-state list of bankruptcy lawyers with their own blogs.
• Have a blog or know a good blog post you think should be included? Or a suggestion for a future BLT theme?  Send an e-mail to BLT [at] bankruptcybill [dot] us with the link.
• Suggestion to bankruptcy lawyers with blogs: Make sure to include a “Search” function somewhere on your blog.  It makes it easier to find topical posts on your blog and increases the likelihood that a post from your blog will be included in BLT.

GENERAL

National Bankruptcy Forum

• Why Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Has Your Second Mortgage Lender Feeling “Undersecured”

Bankruptcy Law Network

• No Modification for You!

Consumer Law & Policy Blog

• HAMP Homeowners Stuck in Limbo

ALABAMA

Watts Law Group, P.C. and M. Stan Herring, P.C. – Alabama Consumer Law Blog (Birmingham, AL)

• Washington Post Article about DC Lawyer Writes about Foreclosure Defenses
• A Tragic Tale of a Mortgage Loan That Should Never Have Been And the Devastation It Caused a Family

***SEE MORE BLOG POSTS FROM BANKRUPTCY LAWYERS AROUND THE U.S.*** (more…)

What happens when you take two spirited six-year-old boys who love to use their imagination and pretend to be Power Rangers, and it also happens that both of their fathers are bankruptcy attorneys?

Read this amusing post by Long Island bankruptcy attorney Craig Robins to find out.

Popular law blog Law Shucks not only appreciated Fantasy Bankruptcy #2 but laid down the challenge for someone to create real fantasy bankruptcy in its Quick Shucks 10.30.09 edition.

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A nice profile about us by Charleston, South Carolina bankruptcy attorney Russell A. DeMott just went live on the Bankruptcy Law Network’s site.  Click below to have a look-see:

• Bankruptcy Bill and BAPCPA Man:  Cartoons come to bankruptcy

http://www.bankruptcylawnetwork.com/2009/11/02/bankruptcy-bill-and-bapcpa-man-cartoons-come-to-bankruptcy/

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LawShucks added its own take on Bankruptcy Bill’s Fantasy Bankruptcy in its Quick Shucks 10.08.09:

Fantasy bankruptcy is brilliant. Harvey Miller is the Adrian Peterson of the draft, but then do you go for the double-down strategy of picking Goldstein, or do you diversify and go with someone from K&E?

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We’ve got a new rss feed address via FeedBurner

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Bankruptcybill

Apologies for any inconvenience to our rss subscribers.  The reason for the change?  The ABA Journal kindly emailed to let us know that Bankruptcy Bill is now in their Blawg Directory–have a look at http://www.abajournal.com/blawgs/bankruptcybill.us. However, they also pointed out that they were having trouble with the old rss feed of http://bankruptcybill.us/feed.  Hence the switch.

Not clear if this means we’re going to be in the ABA Journal’s Top 100 Blawgs, but regardless, we appreciate being on their radar screen.  And if you haven’t done it already, take a moment to tell the ABA Journal why Bankruptcy Bill should be included in their Top 100 Blawgs:  http://www.abajournal.com/blawgs/blawg100_submit (Deadline Friday, Oct 2).

Here’s an interesting post by Jayne Navarre, managing director of lawgravity.com, (re-posted with permission).  Jayne consults on Internet marketing and communications for law firms. She coaches lawyers and marketers on the nuances necessary to succeed in social media, social networking and search optimization on the Web.  She blogs at www.virtualmarketingofficer.com and can be reached at jln@lawgravity.com.

I just dropped an idea bomb over on the Legal Marketing Association’s peer-to-peer social network, LMA Connect; it’s a members only community so I can’t post the link. However, it’s so big –at least in my mind– that I thought I’d share it with my blog readers with a caveat “you heard it here, first.”

I think law firm web sites should host banner and skyscraper ads for their clients. For free, of course.

It may help if I set up the story.

(Click here to read the rest of the post on Jayne’s blog.)

BLT (Bankruptcy Lawyer Topics) is a periodic review and comparison of  consumer bankruptcy topics being covered on bankruptcy lawyer blogs.

• Click on BK Lawyer Blogs for a state-by-state list of bankruptcy lawyers with their own blogs.
• Have a blog post you think should be included?  Send an e-mail to bill [at] bankruptcybill [dot] us.

On the heels of today’s article in the New York Times (”Online Scammers Prey on Jobless“), it seemed appropriate to see what various bankruptcy lawyer blogs have to say on the topic of scams in world of bankruptcy, debt, mortgages and foreclosure.

WISCONSIN

Law Office of Gregory A. Holbus, Esq. – Wisconsin Bankruptcy Blog (Green Bay, WI)

• Can I max out my credit cards before I file bankruptcy?

TEXAS

Going Concern

• Huron Book Cooking Lawsuits Likely to Be Filed this Week
• Huron Consulting is Clearly Not a CPA Firm
• Preliminary Analytics | 08.05.09 – Coverage of bondholders’ attempt to fire Trump, and Banks Get Picky In Doling Out Credit Cards
• LandAmerica: Victims of Bad Marketing or Ponzi Schemers?

Law Shucks

• This Week in Layoffs – 7/31/09
• The Month in Layoffs – July 09

Point of Law

• W.R. Grace Chapter 11
• Clear as Mud: Asbestos Trusts and Empirical Evidence

Above The Law

• Jones Day Slams Its Competitors
• Public Law School Tuition On The Rise
• Unemployed Student Wants Her Money Back
• Bankruptcy Won’t Discharge $350,000 of Student Loan Debt for Law Graduate

Did we miss a good recent bankruptcy-related post on another blog?  Post in the comments section below, or e-mail bill [at] bankruptcybill [dot] us to let us know.

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Bargain Babe is who Bankruptcy Bill would love to date if he could ever get out of the office.  (See Bill’s previous efforts at dating.)

Bargain Babe (www.bargainbabe.com) is also known as Julia Scott, “a cheapskate by nature and a journalist by training.”  And her site has become one of the go-to spots on the web for ways to save money.

Bankruptcy Bill and BAPCPA Man both strongly recommend Bargain Babe for anyone into cutting costs and alliteration.  See an NBC News interview with Bargain Babe after the jump.

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