Recent News
An America a Without Bankruptcy Law ?
An excellent blog post by Dallas Bankruptcy Attorney Reed Allmand about a topic most of us never think about… what it would be like to live and work in a country with no modern bankruptcy or insolvency law to act as a safety net. Reed’s blog post describes how...
Videos Produced be the Bankruptcy Court System Explaining Bankruptcy
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWD8tTl8Ey0] View all the videos here
Nearly a Third of Working Families Considered 'Low-Income' – How did we get here ?
A good post from the Atlantic Wire that highlights and expands on the recent report from the Working Poor Project that indicates that 30.1% of working families are "struggling to meet basic needs. I see these families daily in our law practice. Hard working Americans...
Finding the Right Bankruptcy Lawyer
Once you have made the decision to at least talk with an attorney or lawyer about the prospect of bankruptcy, then it becomes important to find the right attorney to help guide you. Here are a few tips that I think are important in finding the right attorney to talk...
The Case of the Sequaciously Servile Lawyer
“Butler-style” representation, under which the sequaciously servile lawyer does whatever the client wants and then cites that client’s command as a shield to the improper actions has no place in bankruptcy court or in any court." The above alliterative quote is taken...
2010 Bankruptcy Filings Up 14%
An interesting blog post with this information from Maryland Bankruptcy Attorney Brett Weiss: "According to the 2010 Fiscal Year statistics from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the number of bankruptcies filed between October 1, 2009 and September 30,...