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(matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) 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.
Bankruptcy Billablesis 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(matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) is an attorney licensed in Wisconsin and New York. He speaks Japanese and focuses on comparative and international law, as well as international business.
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(matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) 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.
New Feature: The Bankruptcy Word looks at the etymology of bankruptcy terms. Matthew Knox is a first year associate in the bankruptcy section of Adair & Myers, PLLC, in Houston, Texas and enjoys learning about the exciting and storied world of bankruptcy. He can be reached at mak@am-law.com.
“Bankruptcy”
Where does the word itself come from? The textbook we used in my bankruptcy class in law school glossed over its origins in a way that hinted at mystery and controversy:
“[W]hether or not ‘bankruptcy’ derives from the Italian banca rotta or ‘broken [merchant's] table’… the clearest origins of United States bankruptcy law are to be found in England.” (The Law of Debtors and Creditors, p. 107, 5th Ed. 2006, by current chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel and two-time Daily Show guest Elizabeth Warren, and Jay Lawrence Westbrook.)
Broken merchant’s table? Wait, what?
The story is that:
“In medieval Europe, a merchant who was unable to pay his bills was dealt with harshly: his creditors would (more…)
Bankruptcy Billablesis 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(matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) is an attorney licensed in Wisconsin and New York. He speaks Japanese and focuses on comparative and international law, as well as international business.
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(matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) is a Brooklyn-based 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.
Bankruptcy Billablesis 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(matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) is an attorney licensed in Wisconsin and New York (two months as of tomorrow!). He speaks Japanese and focuses on comparative and international law, as well as international business.
Also thanks to our sponsors for their support of the first-ever (to our knowledge)Bankruptcy Song Contestand for collectively making a donationto theNational Consumer Law Centerin the amount of $25for each song submitted (for which we received a nice thank you note from the NCLC’s Executive Director):
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(matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) 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.
Time to “restructure” your social life again for Bankruptcy Bill’s favorite new event to hit the underground bankruptcy scene… Turnaround Underground. (Here’s the Reuters article about the last event.)
The February issue of the ABI Journal features another humorous Chapter 8 column by the ABI’s resident bankruptcy humorists Scott K. Brown (Lewis & Roca LLP, Phoenix) and Eric M. Van Horn (Rochelle McCullough LLP, Dallas).
Scott and Eric’s column, “Seven Lessons from 2009″, covers topics including professional fees in government sponsored bankruptcies, using a bankruptcy judge’s letter to the local bar to develop business, attending and organizing a panel for an ABI conference, and the link between the global financial crisis, the letter “G”, and the number “7.”
Email Scott (sbrown@lrlaw.com) or Eric (evanhorn@romclawyers.com) for a copy of the article if you do not have your ABI Journal handy
Whenever a celebrity files for bankruptcy, there’s a bankruptcy lawyer representing that celebrity. Who are they and where do they come from?
Bankruptcy Bill has put together a list below of the bankruptcy lawyers for each celebrity bankruptcy (to the extent we can find the info). If we’ve missed any lawyers or any worthy celebrities, please email bill [at] bankruptcybill.us to let us know, or just add a comment to this post.
Thanks to the following folks for supporting this post, each of whom is a celebrity in their own right in the bankruptcy world:
Professor Nancy Rapoport – Blog: http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com (Las Vegas, NV) 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 Fiascosand Their Implications (with Jeffrey Van Niel) and appeared in the movie Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
And now, without further ado, is the first ever….
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CELEBRITIES & THEIR BANKRUPTCY LAWYERS
Apologies to everyone whose blog was previously included here. We're having some technical problems with a bunch of the rss feeds (tricky little things) and the feeds weren't working for a number of blogs. Hence the removal of them from the sidebar for the time being. We're working on getting them up and running again.
“[W]hether or not ‘bankruptcy’ derives from the Italian banca rotta or ‘broken [merchant's] table’… the clearest origins of United States bankruptcy law are to be found in England.” (The Law of Debtors and Creditors, p. 107, 5th Ed. 2006, by current chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel and two-time Daily Show guest Elizabeth Warren, and Jay Lawrence Westbrook.)
