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  • March 26, 2026

    Drug Supplier Says InvaTech Pocketed Mistaken Payments

    An Indian pharmaceutical company is accusing bankrupt New Jersey generic-drug developer InvaTech Pharma Solutions of pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars of payments due to the Indian company that it received by mistake.

  • March 26, 2026

    Under The Radar: Bankruptcy News You May Have Missed

    Investment firm Jump Trading and its co-founder moved for dismissal of a lawsuit from the administrator for bankrupt cryptocurrency company Terraform Labs. A New Mexico industrial building owner is appealing a New York bankruptcy judge's approval of a disclosure statement from a secured creditor. And the new owner of fundraising technology company Flipcause sought to reassure nonprofits that it would run the platform differently than its previous operator.

  • March 26, 2026

    Creditors, US Trustee Protest Jones Day In Vanderbilt Case

    The U.S. Trustee's Office and a group of creditors have urged a New York bankruptcy judge to reject mining company Vanderbilt Minerals' bid to retain Jones Day as counsel, arguing the law firm is conflicted because it represented the debtor's parent company prior to Vanderbilt's Chapter 11 case.

  • March 26, 2026

    BlockFills Gets Ch. 11 Stay Of Crypto Suit Targeting 3 Execs

    Cryptocurrency firm BlockFills secured a Delaware bankruptcy judge's permission Thursday to temporarily block a lawsuit from creditors alleging the company and three current and former executives failed to properly manage customer assets.

  • March 26, 2026

    Bonds Ellis Adds Michael Best Bankruptcy Litigator In Texas

    Bonds Ellis Eppich Schafer Jones LLP has added a former Michael Best & Friedrich LLP attorney with deep experience in bankruptcy, restructuring and complex civil litigation as a partner in Fort Worth.

  • March 26, 2026

    Cannabis Co. Gets Stay Protection For US Subsidiaries

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Thursday stayed actions against the U.S. subsidiaries of Cannabist Company Holdings as the bankrupt Canadian company moves to sell its assets or wind them down.

  • March 25, 2026

    EV Co. Investors Get Final OK Of $13.3M Deal, Atty Fees

    Investors in bankrupt electric vehicle company Arrival have gotten final approval for their nearly $13.3 million deal ending claims the company touted a purportedly profitable business plan as it went public via merger with a special purpose acquisition company only to scale back its projections within a year of the merger announcement.

  • March 25, 2026

    Woman Deserves Relief From Tax Prep Fraud, Justices Told

    Two taxpayer groups and a tax counsel association urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a woman's appeal over liabilities triggered by a fraudulent preparer, arguing the Third Circuit decision in the case misread the fraud exception in the tax assessment statute.

  • March 25, 2026

    Ex-Nikola CEOs Can't Get Bankruptcy Pause For Investor Suit

    Former CEOs of bankrupt electric-truck maker Nikola Corp. can't hit pause on proposed investor class action claims they face while related claims against the company are stayed amid its bankruptcy proceedings, an Arizona federal judge has determined.

  • March 25, 2026

    Meet The Attys In Biotech Biz Finch's Ch. 11

    A team of attorneys from Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole LLP and Ropes & Gray LLP is steering the Chapter 11 case of Finch Therapeutics, a company that develops treatments to improve the health of the body's microbiome.

  • March 25, 2026

    Fecal Treatment Co. Says Ch. 11 Is Best Option To Sell Assets

    Microbiome treatment developer Finch Therapeutics told a Delaware bankruptcy judge Wednesday that its lack of income or ability to collect on a patent judgment justified its Chapter 11 filing despite a lack of secured debts.

  • March 25, 2026

    Ice Miller Grows In Delaware With 5-Atty Bankruptcy Team

    Ice Miller LLP announced Wednesday that it hired a five-attorney bankruptcy and restructuring team from Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP to help expand its recently opened office in Wilmington, Delaware.

  • March 25, 2026

    Ashurst Adds 4 Ex-Bracewell Partners To Finance Practice

    Ashurst LLP has announced the addition of a four-partner team in New York to expand its finance and restructuring capacities ahead of a proposed merger with Perkins Coie LLP.

  • March 25, 2026

    Bankruptcy Financing Becomes New Front For Lender Battles

    Lender-on-lender brawling that normally occurs out of court is increasingly unfolding in the Chapter 11 financing arena, forcing bankruptcy judges to reckon with in-court deals that use aggressive liability management tactics to promote certain investors over others.

  • March 25, 2026

    Alaskan Airline Gets OK For $20M Asset Sale In Ch. 11

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Wednesday said he would approve Alaska-based airline operator Float Alaska's request for permission to sell aircraft, spare parts and an affiliate for more than $20 million.

  • March 25, 2026

    Cannabis Co. Seeks Ch. 15 As It Eyes Sales Of US Business

    The foreign representative for Cannabist Company Holdings Inc., a purveyor of cannabis products, asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge Wednesday to recognize the company's Canadian insolvency in U.S. courts as it seeks to sell operations it is running in the U.S.

  • March 24, 2026

    Ch. 11 Cases Follow Auto Loan Fraud Claims From Stellantis

    Two new Chapter 11 cases have come on the heels of a lawsuit brought by a Stellantis unit, which alleged the debtors committed auto lending fraud by double-pledging collateral and keeping a fake set of books intended to dupe the lender into providing more financing.

  • March 24, 2026

    Judge Pushes Fight Over Gov't Contractor's Ch. 7 To July

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday delayed a fight over the conversion of government contractor Team Systems International's bankruptcy case until July so it can be heard alongside a fraudulent transfer trial, saying he didn't want to consider the conversion issue over multiple hearings.

  • March 24, 2026

    Catching Up With New Bankruptcy Case Action

    The maker of spandex is looking to swap its debt for equity in Chapter 11, a longtime book distributor plans to finish winding down operations while its bankruptcy keeps an automatic stay on litigation, and a microbiome treatment developer wants to sell its assets in bankruptcy.

  • March 24, 2026

    Justices Weigh Change To Estoppel Rule Used In Ch. 13 Case

    The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday over whether the Fifth Circuit erred in letting judicial estoppel bar a Chapter 13 debtor from pursuing tort litigation after failing to disclose the claim to a bankruptcy court, weighing whether to apply a holistic test to determine if the debtor's mistake was inadvertent.

  • March 24, 2026

    4th Circ. Affirms False Ads Verdict Against Chinese Pool Co.

    The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a jury verdict finding a Chinese pool parts company liable for falsely advertising its products as made in the USA as part of a larger judgment favoring a North Carolina manufacturer that has since ballooned to over $17 million.

  • March 24, 2026

    Caribbean Resort Seeks OK For Ch. 11 Global Settlement

    A bankrupt resort residence complex on the Caribbean island and British Overseas Territory of Anguilla asked a Delaware judge to approve a settlement with various parties including a family who alleged their child was attacked by a facility employee.

  • March 23, 2026

    4th Circ. Finds Mortgage Docs Didn't Violate Bankruptcy Stay

    The Fourth Circuit has declined to revive a debtor's lawsuit claiming his mortgage servicers violated bankruptcy protections, finding that none of the monthly account statements, payoff statements and tax statements the servicers sent him were related to debt collection. 

  • March 23, 2026

    NY Hotel That Housed Asylum-Seekers Hits Ch. 11

    A hotel north of New York City that had agreed to provide long-term shelter for asylum-seekers, and was subsequently sued by a municipality for doing so, has filed for Chapter 11 protection, listing between $1 million and $10 million worth of assets and liabilities.

  • March 23, 2026

    Ch. 11 Venue Shopping Still A Thorn In LoPucki's Side

    Lynn LoPucki, a professor at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law, is back. The long-time bankruptcy gadfly stopped work on his public Bankruptcy Research Database of large corporate Chapter 11s in 2022. In the intervening years, his appearances in the pages of the mainstream business press, where he had regularly denounced forum shopping, waned.

Expert Analysis

  • The 3rd-Party Bankruptcy Release Landscape After Purdue

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    In its Purdue Pharma ruling prohibiting nonconsensual third-party releases, the U.S. Supreme Court did not comment on criteria to render a third-party release consensual, opening a debate in the bankruptcy courts on the permissibility of opt-out versus opt-in releases, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Striking A Balance Between AI Use And Attorney Well-Being

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    As the legal industry increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence tools to boost efficiency, leaders must note the hidden costs of increased productivity, and work to protect attorneys’ well-being while unlocking AI’s full potential, says Ed Sohn at Factor.

  • Being An Artist Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My work as an artist has highlighted how using creativity and precision together — qualities that are equally essential in both art and law — not only improves outcomes, but also leads to more innovative and thoughtful work, says Sarah La Pearl at Segal McCambridge.

  • Bankruptcy Decision Exemplifies Venue Issue For Franchisees

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    A California bankruptcy court's decision earlier this month in Pinnacle Foods and a lingering circuit split on assumption of executory franchise contracts highlights the issue of whether franchisee debtors can qualify for case venue in friendlier circuits, says David Gamble at Parkins Rubio.

  • Lawyers With Disabilities Are Seeking Equity, Not Pity

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    Attorneys living with disabilities face extra challenges — including the need for special accommodations, the fear of stigmatization and the risk of being tokenized — but if given equitable opportunities, they can still rise to the top of their field, says Kate Reder Sheikh, a former attorney and legal recruiter at Major Lindsey & Africa.

  • Judicial Committee Best Venue For Litigation Funding Rules

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    The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules' recent decision to consider developing a rule for litigation funding disclosure is a welcome development, ensuring that the result will be the product of a thorough, inclusive and deliberative process that appropriately balances all interests, says Stewart Ackerly at Statera Capital.

  • The Strategic Advantages Of Appointing A Law Firm CEO

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    The impact on law firms of the recent CrowdStrike outage underscores that the business of law is no longer merely about providing supplemental support for legal practice — and helps explain why some law firms are appointing dedicated, full-time CEOs to navigate the challenges of the modern legal landscape, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate Strategies.

  • What Being An 'Insider' Means In Ch. 11, And Why It Matters

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    As borrowers grapple with approaching near-term maturities on corporate debt, lenders should be proactive in mitigating the risks of being classified as an insider in potential bankruptcies, including heightened scrutiny, preference risk, plan voting and more, say David Hillman and Steve Ma at Proskauer.

  • How Cos. Can Build A Strong In-House Pro Bono Program

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    During this year’s pro bono celebration week, companies should consider some key pointers to grow and maintain a vibrant in-house program for attorneys to provide free legal services for the public good, says Mary Benton at Alston & Bird.

  • Navigating The Bankruptcy Terrain After Purdue Pharma

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    The U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling in Harrington v. Purdue Pharma is having a significant impact on bankruptcies, with recent cases addressing nonconsensual third-party releases and opt-out mechanisms, and highlighting strategies practitioners can employ to avoid running afoul of the decision, say Brett Axelrod and Agostino Zammiello at Fox Rothschild.

  • Use The Right Kind Of Feedback To Help Gen Z Attorneys

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    Generation Z associates bring unique perspectives and expectations to the workplace, so it’s imperative that supervising attorneys adapt their feedback approach in order to help young lawyers learn and grow — which is good for law firms, too, says Rachael Bosch at Fringe Professional Development.

  • How 9th Circ. Ruling Expands Bankruptcy Trustees' Powers

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    The Ninth Circuit recently held in The Lovering Tubbs Trust v. Hoffman that a trustee can avoid intentionally fraudulent transfers, even if no creditor suffered harm as a result, materially strengthening bankruptcy trustees' powers, say Robert Klyman and Rod Kazempour at DLA Piper.

  • State Of The States' AI Legal Ethics Landscape

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    Over the past year, several state bar associations, as well as the American Bar Association, have released guidance on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in legal practice, all of which share overarching themes and some nuanced differences, say Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson at SMB Law Group.

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