Rochelle's Daily Wire

Lawyers leaving a bankrupt firm are not required to pay over profits on hourly matters they take to their new firms.

Almost $35,000 in actual and punitive damages was imposed on a judgment creditor and its collection law firm for failing to vacate a garnishment following notice of bankruptcy and discharge.

Careful drafting and copious documentation are required for a bifurcated fee arrangement to pass muster in chapter 7.

Sixth Circuit upholds dismissal of claims for reverse veil piercing and reverse alter ego.

A creditor lost a dischargeability suit by failing to call the right witnesses to prove that a lawyer’s trust account was used to hide assets.

A nonprecedential opinion applies Fifth Circuit authority to achieve a result that’s equitable for the debtor and creditors, and maybe also for a personal injury defendant.

Saying she is in the minority in her district, a new Delaware judge ruled that allowing creditors to opt out won’t permit a plan to impose nonconsensual, third-party releases.

Eighth Circuit was compelled to overrule its own precedent that permitted the bankruptcy court to bar a debtor from amending schedules based on bad faith.

The claim of a member of a creditors’ committee was subordinated because she evaded disclosure that her claims would consume the entire estate.

The ‘fugitive disentitlement doctrine’ does not allow a federal court to dismiss an appeal because of a fugitive’s contempt of a state court order, the First Circuit rules.