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When Innovation Overwhelms The Rule Of Law

In an era where technology is rapidly evolving and artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere, it’s worth ask... (more story)

Adventure Photography Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Photographing nature everywhere from Siberia to Cuba and Iceland to Rwanda provides me with a constant reminder to... (more story)

How Ch. 11 Can Alleviate Merchant Cash Advance Concerns

Merchant cash advance funding is one of the biggest challenges for small businesses today because funders are so p... (more story)

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Wave Of Defaults Looms For Fed's Main Street Loans

Some businesses that took out big loans backed by American taxpayers during the COVID-19 pandemic have gone bankrupt, and the stage is set for a wall of similar debt to start crashing later this year when larg... (more story)

Judge Nixes Jones' Ch. 7 Deal With Sandy Hook Families

A deal proposed by the Chapter 7 trustee in the bankruptcy case of right-wing conspiracy peddler Alex Jones that would have resolved the nearly $1.5 billion in claims held by the families of Sandy Hook school ... (more story)

Girardi Keese Trustee Sues NY Atty Who Funded Girardi

The bankruptcy trustee for disgraced California attorney Tom Girardi's defunct law firm is suing to prevent New York attorney Joseph DiNardo from discharging $7.5 million in his own bankruptcy, claiming DiNard... (more story)

Purdue Pharma Seeks To Wind Down Pension Plan For $43M

Purdue Pharma LP has asked a New York bankruptcy judge for permission to terminate a pension plan that has more than 3,000 participants, arguing the present value of the plan's assets and favorable economic co... (more story)

Commercial Ch. 11s Up 16%, Outpacing Individual Filings

Commercial Chapter 11 filings rose by 16% in January compared to the same month a year before, exceeding the increase in consumer bankruptcy filings over the same period, according to data provided by legal te... (more story)

Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings

Paul Hastings LLP spent 2024 representing renowned bankruptcy cases, including FTX, Core Scientific, WeWork and Diamond Sports Group's Chapter 11, helping various creditors recover billions of dollars and over... (more story)

Implant Maker Exactech Must Fix Disclosures For Ch. 11 Vote

A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday rejected medical implant maker Exactech Inc.'s bid to send its Chapter 11 plan out for voting, saying a disclosure statement attached to the proposal lacked critical info... (more story)

King & Spalding Adds Restructuring Partners In New York

King & Spalding LLP said it has hired away two Alston & Bird partners for the firm's bankruptcy stable.

Orrick Pressed On Past Work For SmileDirectClub Trustee

A Texas bankruptcy judge on Monday asked a law firm why it didn't disclose previous work it did for the Chapter 7 trustee liquidating SmileDirectClub when it applied to be special litigation counsel, saying he... (more story)

Trustee Objects To White & Case Pay In Terraform Ch. 11

The U.S. Trustee's Office has asked a Delaware bankruptcy court to reject a roughly $431,000 request by White & Case LLP for work on behalf of the official committee of unsecured creditors in defunct cryptocur... (more story)

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'Pay-To-Pay' Fees Are Unfair Debt Practice, 11th Circ. Rules

The Eleventh Circuit said a mortgage servicing company illegally charged borrowers fees for online and phone payments, upholding a Florida federal court's decision that it improperly collected so-called pay-to... (more story)

US Trustee Blasts Releases In First Mode Ch. 11 Disclosures

The Office of the U.S. Trustee asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to reject the Chapter 11 plan disclosure from bankrupt electric-engine developer First Mode Holdings Inc., arguing that it provides too little i... (more story)

Meet The Attys Helping Liberated Brands Through Ch. 11

Outdoor apparel retailer Liberated Brands LLC has assembled a team of attorneys from Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP to guide the company through a Chapter 11 case aimed at winding... (more story)

Lowenstein Sandler Aims To Combine Dueling Dispensary Suits

Lowenstein Sandler LLP has moved in New Jersey state court to consolidate its $800,000 legal fee case against a cannabis dispensary with a malpractice suit that the dispensary recently filed against it and han... (more story)

Liberated Brands Gets OK To Tap $25M In Ch. 11 Financing

A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday agreed to give interim approval for outdoors and athletic clothing retailer Liberated Brands LLC to access $25 million of its $35 million debtor-in-possession financing.

Discount Retail Chain Bargain Hunt Hits Ch. 11

Discount retailer Bargain Hunt Stores, which operates almost 100 outlets, has entered bankruptcy in Tennessee with plans to shut its doors through Chapter 11.

US Trustee Wants Stay For Container Store Plan Appeal

The U.S. Trustee's Office asked a Texas bankruptcy judge to put The Container Store's Chapter 11 plan on hold while it appeals his decision that a creditor's failure to opt out of the plan's third-party releas... (more story)

Travel App Mondee's DIP, Sale Plan Abusive, Investor Says

A Mondee shareholder has alleged the insolvent travel app company's proposed debtor-in-possession financing and bidding procedures would violate the Bankruptcy Code by allowing the transfer of "substantially a... (more story)

Guo Trustee Gets OK To Keep Law Firm Deal Sealed For Now

The Chapter 11 trustee overseeing convicted Chinese fraudster Miles Guo's bankruptcy estate can keep secret for 180 days an adversary proceeding settlement with a New York law firm because similar clawback cas... (more story)

Judge Rejects Blink Fitness Ch. 11 Plan Exculpations

A Delaware bankruptcy judge Tuesday rejected Blink Fitness' request to shield the administrator of its Chapter 11 wind-down plan from legal liability, saying she can't release claims for future acts.