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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 (matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) is an attorney licensed in Wisconsin and New York.  Fearing the legal profession’s future, he has begun documenting the law school tuition bubble at his own blog, The Law School Tuition Bubble, where you can read his latest post, “Dialogue with an Affable Law School Dean, Part 1.”

Credit Slips

• Mortgage Servicing Paper
• A New Title Loan Philanthropic Organization?
• 21% HAMP First Year Redefault Rate
• Projected Filings for 2011
• US News & Unintended Consequences for Bankruptcy Judges (and the Law Clerks They Hire)
• Slipping into Arizona . . .
• Bankruptcy Filing Rate Drops Sharply in November
• Expanding Chapter 9
• Fisking the American Securitization Forum’s Congressional Testimony
• The New Robosigning

WSJ Bankruptcy Beat

• Crystal Cathedral Shutters Christmas Show
• Jewish Times Publisher to Exit Bankruptcy
• Court Approves AVP Sale to Existing Shareholder
• Dreier Bankruptcy Trustee Files Flurry of Lawsuits
• Arena Deal Keeps Coyotes Hockey Team in Desert
• Rock & Republic Finds its Softer Side
• Oaktree, Angelo Gordon Seek Akin Gump Dismissal in Tribune Case
• Too Cool for School
• Braxton Faces Creditor Bid to Break Bankruptcy Shield
• The Daily Docket: A&P Files for Bankruptcy
• Pasadena Playhouse Raises $2 Million to Match Donation
• Creditor Looks to Upend Tamarack Chairlifts
• Farkas Dabbles in Real Estate While Seeking Trial Delay
• Polaroid Trustee Takes Aim at Former ‘NSync Star
• Formosa Star Guides Oriental Trading to Bill for Costumes
• Hecker Admits to Secretly Buying Back Bikes
• Bankruptcy Objections, the Final Frontier
• Cuban Gives Up on Payment From Texas Rangers

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 (matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) is an attorney licensed in Wisconsin and New York.  Fearing for the legal profession’s future, he has begun documenting the law school tuition bubble at his own blog, The Law School Tuition Bubble, where you can read his latest post, “Linkth Dimension–Law School Buildings”.

• 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 or NON-STATE SPECIFIC

Bankruptcy Law Network

• You Can Modify a Mortgage on a Your Home in a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy!
• Mortgage Cramdown – Yes!
• Why Does a Chapter 11 Cost So Much?
• Massachusetts Bankruptcy Judge Endorses Hybrid Plan
• South Carolina Bankruptcy Lawyer Unleashes Vulcan Intellect on the Hanging Paragraph
• When is a Car Purchased for Business Use?
• Upside Down Car Loans Protected in 8th Circuit
• How Can I Lower My Car Loan Balance in a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy?
• Cramdown On First Mortgages Gets A Second Look By Senate
• Insurance Requirement on Vehicles in a Western District of Missouri Bankruptcy
• ¡MORE!

BAPCPA Blog

• Purchase Money Vehicle Creditors Get No Claim Upon Surrender

CreditSlips.org

• Redemption (of the 722 variety) for Struggling Homeowners
• Credit Bidding
• Where Did HAMP Go Wrong?
• Today’s Consumers Prefer Chapter 7 Bankruptcy 3 to 1
• Rates are Low–Where Are All the Refis?
• Electronic Copy of Bankruptcy Code and Rules
• ¡MORE!

Consumer Law & Policy Blog

• The Role of Predatory Lending in the Collapse of Detroit (CL&P Blog)
• MBA & CRL duke it out on Bankruptcy reform (CL&P Blog)

***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 (matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) is an attorney licensed in Wisconsin and New York.  Fearing the legal profession’s future, he has begun documenting the law school tuition bubble at his own blog, The Law School Tuition Bubble, where you can read his latest post, “Income Based Repayment Helps Law Students, Not the Tuition Bubble”.

NYLawyer.com (free registration required)

• Dreier Ex-Wife’s Bid for Support Ruled Issue for Bankruptcy Court

Point of Law

• “Let’s Not Start Lionizing The Anti-Foreclosure Deadbeats”

Credit Slips

• What the Foreclosure Fiasco Means for People in Foreclosure
• Debt Collector to Pay $1.75 Million
• WSJ Blames Evil Consumer Lawyers
• BP Claims in Bankruptcy
• Some Thoughts on the MGM Prepack
• Basel III and Cushy Capital
• Moratorium for What?
• The Finality of Foreclosure Sales

Going Concern

• Accounting News Roundup: PwC Rakes in Fees on Lehman; Grant Thornton: Opening the Audit Market Wouldn’t Hurt Big 4; One in Three IRS Employees Are Eligible for Retirement | 10.15.10

WSJ Bankruptcy Beat

• Farkas to Remain Tethered to GPS Anklet
• The Daily Docket: Awal Seeks Bankruptcy in U.S.
• Sex.com Seeks to Sell Itself for $13 Million
• Bumpy Ride for Residents of Florida ‘Fly-In’ Community
• With Ski Season Looming, Tamarack Faces Setback
• Oilily Bounces Back From Bankruptcy
• The Daily Docket: TerreStar Files for Chapter 11
• Hecker Sent Back to Jail
• Arts Company Crafts Benefit to Repay Creditors
• Restructuring Revenue Expected to Remain Flat
• Young Buck Assets Up for Auction
• Luby’s Sticks With Fuddruckers Favorites
• Kristal Estate Open to Selling CBGB Name
• HBO Announces Cast for Upcoming ‘Too Big To Fail’ Film
• Movie Gallery: Ex-Worker Trying to Swap Secrets for Job
• Ex-Taylor Bean Chairman Wants to Remove Ankle Monitor
• Pasadena Playhouse Plots ‘Sexy’ Revival After Bankruptcy
• D.C. Attacks Love Nightclub Sale
• Klee Gets High Marks from Auditor on $12M Tribune Probe

Above the Law

• A Sign of Improvement in the Chicago Legal Market?

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 (matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) is an attorney licensed in Wisconsin and New York.  Fearing for the legal profession’s future, he has begun documenting the law school tuition bubble at his own blog, The Law School Tuition Bubble, where you can read his latest post, “Dear ABA Committee Chair, No, It’s Not That Complicated.  Signed, The Legal Profession.”

• 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 or NON-STATE SPECIFIC

Beat the Press (Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy Research)

• Foreclosure Moratorium: The NYT Does Not Know What The Obama Administration Fears, Only What It Says It Fears

CreditSlips.org

• Moratorium for What?
• The Finality of Foreclosure Sales
• The Notary Fraud Condonation Act of 2010
• Foreclosure Relief Could Help Economy and End Chaos Faced By Borrowers
• Wrongful Foreclosures and Clouded Title

Consumer Law & Policy Blog

• Would the Foreclosure Fraud Have Occurred if the CFPB Were Already Here?
• Robosigner Scandal Making for Strange Bedfellows
• The Washington Post Reports That The Government Had Been Warned That The Mortgage Foreclosure Industry Was A Mess

ALABAMA

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

• No Title Insurance Could Stall Sales of Foreclosed Homes
• Struggling Virginia Family Wrongfully Foreclosed By Chase

ARIZONA

Brian Dault, Esq. (Dault & Associates PLLC) – Phoenix Bankruptcy Lawyer Blog (Chandler, AZ)

• JP Morgan Halts 50,000 foreclosures

***SEE MORE BLOG POSTS FROM BANKRUPTCY LAWYERS AROUND THE U.S.***

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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 (matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) is an attorney licensed in Wisconsin and New York.  Fearing the legal profession’s future, he has begun documenting the law school tuition bubble at his own blog, The Law School Tuition Bubble, where you can read his latest post, “The Link Kontroversy—Law Schools’ Evening Programs Imperiled, ‘Gainful Employment’ Rules Stalled, & Boy Have I Got a Job for You!”

Credit Slips

• The Notary Fraud Condonation Act of 2010
• Lehman in Jakarta — Venue, Choice of Law, and International Bankruptcy
• Bankruptcy Filings Follow Their Usual Summer Sideways Move
• Lehman in Jakarta
• Ransom Argument–Not Very Edifying
• Wondering How Lenders Are Making Up for Missing Credit Card Fees? Check Your Home Escrow.
• Foreclosure Relief Could Help Economy and End Chaos Faced By Borrowers
• NCBJ Endowment Is Solicting Research Grant Proposals
• Measures of TARP
• The 79.9% APR Credit Card
• What Is the Government Interest in Bankruptcy Cases?
• Time Flies
• Wrongful Foreclosures and Clouded Title
• Initial Thoughts on AIG
• The Shadow Consumer Bankruptcy System

WSJ Bankruptcy Beat

• Lazard’s Kurtz: Executives Quicker to Call Restructuring Advisers
• Toni Braxton Files for Bankruptcy Again
• Jeb Bush Warns of Greece-Like Crisis for Municipalities
• A Tree Grows in Bankruptcy Court
• Crime Dramas Boost ION Media’s Post-Bankruptcy Ratings
• Hecker Trustee Seeks to Question Mercedes Dealers
• Salahi’s Polo Company Enters Bankruptcy
• Restructuring Pros Mark Bankruptcy Reform’s 5th Birthday
• Beach Club Privileges Keep Attorneys from Sea Island Case
• Bankruptcy Lawyer Shares Name with Facebook Founder
• Oriental Trading Faces Candy Claim
• Two Petters Companies Plead Guilty to Fraud Charges
• Tepper Emerges from ‘Billionaire Closet’
• Trustee Seeks to Question Casino About Bergstein Gambling
• Mo Money Mo Restructurings
• Turnaround Pros: Tough Times Call for New Managers
• Airbus Questions Parts Orders from Grounded Mexicana
• The Daily Docket: Takefuji Files for Bankruptcy
• Price Reduced on Former Blixseth Estate
• Judge Approves CBGB’s Guitar Hero Agreement

NYLawyer.com (free registration required)

• Dreier Ex-Wife’s Bid for Support Ruled Issue for Bankruptcy Court
• Cadwalader Declines to Testify Before Congress’ TARP Oversight Panel

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 (matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) is an attorney licensed in Wisconsin and New York.  Fearing for the legal profession’s future, he has begun documenting the law school tuition bubble at his own blog, The Law School Tuition Bubble, where you can read his latest post, “With the Links”.

• 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 or NON-STATE SPECIFIC

A Clean Slate – the Bankruptcy Law Blog by Andy Winchell

• The “Alphabet Problem” For Dummies

American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) Bankruptcy Blog Exchange

• Mortgages, Foreclosure, Morality
• Stopping Foreclosure When the Lender Says “NO!”
• Florida Mortgage Foreclosure and Liability
• A New Unexpected Cause of Foreclosure Examined
• Foreclosure: The Best Thing That Ever Happened To You?
• Foreclosure Update: the Good and the Bad
• What Is The Difference Between Surrendering A Home And Foreclosure?
• If I walk away from my underwater house, can I be sued for the deficiency?
• Foreclosures Likely to Top One Million This Year
• Minor late fees won’t trigger foreclosure
• ¡MORE!

Bankruptcy Law Network

• Foreclosure: Should You Embrace It?
• Avoid bankruptcy if not facing a mortgage foreclosure deficiency judgment
• Bankruptcy and Short Sales
• Bankruptcy And Foreclosure
• File Bankruptcy: Keep Your Home / Walk Away From Your Home
• Does Working On A Mortgage Modification Stop Foreclosure?

Beat the Press (Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy Research)

• Money for Failed Modifications Goes to Banks, Not Homeowners

***SEE MORE BLOG POSTS FROM BANKRUPTCY LAWYERS AROUND THE U.S.***

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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 (matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) is an attorney licensed in Wisconsin and New York.  Fearing the legal profession’s future, he has begun documenting the law school tuition bubble at his own blog, where you can read his latest post, “Failure to Launch: The Curious Case of Wilkes Law School, PA”.

Law Shucks

• Backup Plan if (when) WS2:$NS Bombs

WSJ Bankruptcy Beat

• Real Housewife Finds Drama in Bankruptcy Court
• The Daily Docket: Trump Casinos Cleared To Exit Bankruptcy
• St. Vincent’s Sale Plan Hits a Snag
• With Properties Nearly Worthless, Even Lender Walks Away
• Doctors Fight St. Vincent’s Bid to Pay Contractors
• SpongeTech Strikes Out in Bankruptcy
• Opera Props Find New Life at Harry Potter Park
• Mudslide Prevents ‘Ghost Town in The Sky’ From Reopening
• Fraud Suspect Faces X-Rated Accusations
• Rothstein Emails Reveal Cash Concerns
• Pasadena Playhouse Set to Emerge From Bankruptcy
• The Daily Docket: Tronox Files Bankruptcy-Exit Plan
• Art Business Tumbles Into Bankruptcy
• Judge Bans Travel for Hecker
• Former Kiss Guitarist Loses Bankruptcy Appeal (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 (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.

GENERAL or NON-STATE SPECIFIC

American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) Bankruptcy Blog Exchange

• HAMP Mortgage Modification and Chapter 13 Bankruptcy
• HAMP Notes

Beat The Press (Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy Research)

• Money for Failed Modifications Goes to Banks, Not Homeowners

CreditSlips.org

• Redemption (of the 722 variety) for Struggling Homeowners
• Today’s Consumers Prefer Chapter 7 Bankruptcy 3 to 1

Consumer Law & Policy Blog

• Mortgage Crisis Update: Treasury Tinkers with Failed HAMP Program, Delinquencies and Foreclosures Stubbornly Refuse to Go Away
• Latest HAMP Report: Treasury Program a Failure

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

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Bankruptcy Man continues his epic battle against the ominous and powerful Mortgantua. Click here for a refresher on ongoing the BAPCPA Man vs Mortgantua saga.

• Click here for an informative post titled “Reflections on Bootcamp“ by bankruptcy lawyer Andy Winchell on his Clean Slate blog.
• Also, in the Wall Street Journal’s Bankruptcy Beat Blog there’s an article on the most influential bankruptcy lawyers of the decade and an interesting comment by bankruptcy lawyer John Cantrell questioning the lack of inclusion of O. Max Gardner on the list.

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)

• Haines & Krieger’s Las Vegas Foreclosure Round-up
• Capitalism, bankruptcy, foreclosure and hell

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

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

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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)

• Haines & Krieger’s Las Vegas Foreclosure Round-up
• Capitalism, bankruptcy, foreclosure and hell

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

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