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.)

Update 9.17.09

There’s a thoughtful and entertaining article in the September 2009 Issue of the ABI Journal titled “Restructuring the Misperception of Lawyers:  Another Task for Bankruptcy Professionals” written by Nancy Rapoport (Gordon Silver Professor of Law at UNLV’s William S. Boyd Law School and the author of the book Enron: Corporate Fiascos and Their Implications), and by bankruptcy lawyer and humorist Eric Van Horn.

However, it turns out that while we received permission from the authors to re-post the article here, we do not in fact have permission from the ABI to re-post the article.  So, after further consultation with our own in-house intellectual property counsel, IP Aileen, we have decided that the prudent course of action would be to remove the article from this site.

If you’d still like to read the article (and it is a good one), please fee free to e-mail Eric Van Horn at chapter8humor [at] gmail [dot] com and he’ll be happy to e-mail you a copy.  (It’s either that or shell out $300 for ABI membership to get your own copy of the ABI Journal.)

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

Point of Law

• Future claimants’ interests in Chrysler bankruptcy, cont’d

Going Concern

• Chrysler Auditor Switcheroo Follow-up (UPDATE)
• PwC Basically Says That the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy is a Trainwreck
• Rumor of the Day: Deloitte Snagging Chrysler Audit from KPMG?
• A British D-Lister Does What Many Only Wish They Could Do
• Gold Star of the Day: Deloitte

Above The Law

• Notes from the Breadline: To Be On Your Own (Part III)
• Non-Sequiturs: 08.31.09

WSJ Bankruptcy Beat

• William Jefferson Files For Bankruptcy
• Lehman to Chicago Schools: Pay Up!
• NHL’s Commitment To Arizona: One Season
• The New, Adventurous Eddie Bauer
• Non-Profit’s Bankruptcy Another Blow To Newspapers
• Giants Look To Recover $300M Lehman Fumble
• Kennedy and the Code

Creditslips.org

• Morning graph
• Chapter 11 today

Law Shucks

• On vacation this week.

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

Law Shucks

• links for 2009-08-22 – Mentions Bankruptcy Bill #19 – Law firm raids)
• This Week in Layoffs – 8/21/09
• Reading List for Deal Lawyers – Includes excellent summary of Eat What You Kill by Milt Regan.  (Eat What You Kill is also one of the books in Bankruptcy Bill’s Summer Reading List.)

Point of Law

• Will Number 25 Be The Charm? – S. Todd Brown reviews and analyzes the latest developments in the seemingly endless Congoleum asbestos bankruptcy case.

WSJ Bankruptcy Beat

• Can You Pay My Bills?
• Coyotes Hometown Seeks to Block Gretzky Claim
• Recession Scares Morbid Industries Into Liquidation
• Forget Speidi; Meet Markus and Indrani
• Where’s Schwarzenegger When You Need Him?
• Lucky Dog: Dykstra Values Pooch at $10,000

Creditslips.org

Going Concern

• Preliminary Analytics | 08.26.09 – Madoff & JP Morgan; Colonial Bank-ruptcy; U.S. Postal Service job cuts

Above The Law

• All the News That’s Fit to Recycle (NYT reports: ‘Legal job market is hard!’)
• How to Avoid Getting Fired (very funny video)
• Fall Recruiting Open Thread: Vault 6-10 (2010)
• The Mainstream Media Is Aware That Law Firms Exist, Right? – Commentary on the lack of media attention for the role that law firms played in enabling the global financial crisis.

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No new Bankruptcy Bill or BAPCPA Man cartoons this week, but we’ll be back with more next week.  Meanwhile, given new predictions of back-to-back recessions by Nouriel Roubini of the Financial Times (“The risk of a double-dip recession is rising“), it seems appropriate to reach back to the beginning of Bankruptcy Bill for a re-run of the bankruptcy wave cartoon:

*If you like what you see and want to support us, you can do it via sponsorship/advertising/syndication/other as well as by simply making a donation in any amount via PayPal.

*Click here to see all of the Bankruptcy Bill cartoons and here to see cartoons related to “law firms.”

*To see more of Gideon Kendall’s work go to www.gideonkendall.com and gideonkendall.squarespace.com/journal.  Or order yourself a copy of Dino Pets, the wonderfully illustrated children’s book written by Lynn Plourde and illustrated by BAPCPA Man’s favorite illustrator, Gideon Kendall.

p.s.  Regarding copyright issues, our legal counsel, IP Aileen, says:  “Other bloggers/websites/publications:  You are more than welcome to post “Bankruptcy Wave” 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, we’ll fix the economy so as to remove the need for any bankruptcy services (if you’re a lawyer) or any more coverage of the recession (if you’re a journalist/blogger).”

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*Update: In bankruptcy news today,  Michael Foreman has joined Haynes & Boones‘ New York office.  He was previously at Dorsey & Whitney.

*If you like what you see and want to support us, you can do it via sponsorship/advertising/syndication/other as well as by simply making a donation in any amount via PayPal.

*Click here to see all of the Bankruptcy Bill cartoons and here to see cartoons related to “law firms.”

*To see more of Gideon Kendall’s work go to www.gideonkendall.com and gideonkendall.squarespace.com/journal.  Or order yourself a copy of Dino Pets, the wonderfully illustrated children’s book written by Lynn Plourde and illustrated by BAPCPA Man’s favorite illustrator, Gideon Kendall.

p.s.  Regarding copyright issues, our legal counsel, IP Aileen, says:  “Other bloggers/websites/publications:  You are more than welcome to post Strip #19 – Law Firm Raids 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, we’ll send you back to Kirkland’s restructuring group (Chicago office).”

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

Point of Law

• Cramdown still lurking
• Systemic Indifference (S. Todd Brown comments on reckless and indifferent collection practices of mortgage companies cited in a Huffington Post piece by Karen Weise.  Ties commentary into accuracy of claims process in bankruptcy cases, particularly asbestos cases.)

WSJ Bankruptcy Beat

• Lawyer aims to bring “Fiegenomics” to Washington (Bankruptcy lawyer Tom Fiegen to challenge Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley for his seat.)

Creditslips.org

• Thanks to Max
• Private Tax Collection
• The Lack of Evidentiary Foundations Fosters Fraud
• Show Me the Original Note and I Will Show You the Money
• The Alphabet Problem and the Pooling and Servicing Agreements
• Does a Tarnished Credit Report Equal an Untrustworthy Employee?
• How Much Credit Card Debt Do Bankrupt Consumers Have?
• What Does RESPA Have to do with Consumer Bankruptcy Cases?
• Countrywide Sanctioned by Ohio Court Citing Porter & Twomey
• HAMP–Is It Really All About the Money?
• The Consumer Financial Protection Agency
• Truth in Lending or Truth in Ownership of Residential Mortgage Notes
• The Problem with Houston
• Greetings to Max Gardner
• Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) iPhone App

Going Concern

• Huron Consulting Beats the Numbers, Cooked Books and a Bunch of Other Shadiness Notwithstanding
• Bank Failures by the Numbers
• Hammer Wants Everyone to Know That the IRS Can’t Touch This

Above The Law

• $40 Million Benchslap for Weil Gotshal (relates to IP and litigation, but anything about Weil Gotshal is bankruptcy relevant from Bankruptcy Bill’s perspective)
• How Well-Endowed Is Bernie Madoff?
• Official New Vault Rankings (Weil Gotshal moves up to #6)
• Morning Docket 08.18.09 (Why has there been no litigation surge in the recession?)
• Non-Sequiturs: 08.17.09 (Link to another legal cartoon site:  Courtoons–Daily Legal Cartoons.  By David Mills)
• Bad News for the Brothers Madoff?
• Morning Docket 08.17.09 (Programmers figure out a way to hack PACER to be able to access public court docs without having to pay for them.)

NYLawyer.com (free registration required)

• Laughing All the Way to the Bankruptcy: NY Firm Passes $100 Million in Fees in Lehman Disaster
• Zombie Firm Loses Bid to Set Aside NY Default Judgment

Law Shucks

• Layoffs in the Vault 25
• This Week in Layoffs – 8/14/09

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

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

Above The Law

• Non-Sequiturs 08.11.09 – ” For the bankruptcy law groupies among you: It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… BAPCPA Man!”
• Morning Docket 08.11.09 – On potential shenanigans in the Heller Ehrman bankruptcy case.
• Morning Docket 08.10.09 – ABA Journal article on practice areas that are still booming, including debt collection.

NYLawyer.com (free registration required)

• Ouch! BigLaw Firm Settles Malpractice Claim for $20 Million
• NY Partner, Firm Cash In for $15 Million in Madoff Scandal
• NY Partners Switching Firms, NY Associates Making Partner – Kathryn Coleman and Eric Fromme to Hughes Hubbard Reed from Gibson Dunn
• BigLaw Associates On the Move – Associate Gloria Huang goes to Herrick Feinstein from Shearman & Sterling

Law Shucks

• Weil Finally Getting Paid – A summary of Weil Gotshal’s billing in the Lehman bankruptcy case
• Quick Shucks – 8/5/09 – Mentions a big firm bankruptcy associate in Philadelphia who also runs his own restaurant
• Handicapping the Next Layoff
• This Week in Layoffs – 8/7/09

Point of Law

• Chrysler and Sales Free and Clear

Creditslips.org

• The Consumer Financial Protection Agency
• Truth in Lending or Truth in Ownership of Residential Mortgage Notes
• The Problem with Houston
• Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) iPhone App
• How to Count Medical Debt in Bankruptcy
• Bankruptcy Filings Rise in July, Set Off Most of June’s Decline
• Congressional Hearing on Medical Bankruptcies (July 28, 2009)
• 2d Circuit Chysler Opinion
• Exporting Chapter 11
• A Note on Senior Debt
• Fed Conference on Consumer Credit
• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
• After Notice and a Hearing — One Out of Two Ain’t Bad?

Going Concern

• Preliminary Analytics | 08.11.09 - CIT’s latest problem
• Review Comments | 08.10.09 – Recession forecast and the latest on the Huron Consulting accounting scandal
• Preliminary Analytics | 08.10.09 – Update on when Madoff victims can expect full payout
• Michael Jackson’s Doctor is a Deadbeat – And a candidate for bankruptcy?
• Colonial Bank Shouldn’t Make Any Late Summer Plans – Accounting irregularities and possible receivership for the mortgage lender
• The FDIC May Have to Seize Itself – Can the FDIC go under?
• More Madoff Justice Expected Today

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

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.

(To see more of Gideon Kendall’s work go to www.gideonkendall.com and gideonkendall.squarespace.com/journal.)

While Struck is not likely to win any awards for his pro bono bankruptcy service, here are some law firms and lawyers who have:

• George Cauthen of the firm Nelson Mullins in Columbia, SC won the Richland Sertoma Club Service to Mankind Award for his pro bono work in bankruptcy and other areas of law.

• New York State Bar Association 2009 President’s Pro Bono Service Award Winners
  • Kim Zinke (2nd Judicial District: Kings County)- Brooklyn Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project
  • Thomas Miller (6th Judicial District: Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison, Otsego, Schuyler, Tioga, Tompkins counties) – Law Office of Thomas Miller, Binghamton
  • Barbara R. Ridall (8th Judicial District: Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans, Wyoming counties) – Bulan Chiari Horwtiz & Ilecki, LLP, Buffalo
  • Simon Haysom (9th Judicial District: Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester counties) – Simon Haysom LLC, Goshen
  • Hon. Robert J. Nicholson (Senior Lawyer), Oswego
  • Syracuse University College of Law Pro Bono Bankruptcy Practice Group (Law School Group), Syracuse

• Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP was recognized by the American Bar Association on August 3, 2009, for developing an innovative pro bono policy which requested that every lawyer in the firm perform 50 hours of pro bono work, every partner and counsel take or supervise at least one pro bono matter, and every new lawyer work on at least one pro bono matter.

If you know of someone else who deserves a mention for their pro bono bankruptcy work, feel free to post a comment about them.

p.s.  Regarding copyright issues, our legal counsel, IP Aileen, says:  “Other bloggers/websites/publications:  You are more than welcome to post Strip #18 – Pro Bono 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, we’ll make you work for Weil Gotshal on an entirely pro bono basis.”