Here’s what I would have blogged for the second session on Friday’s NACBA Convention. It seems that the enthusiasm for the “live blogging” effort crashed our server. We’re now up, at least for the moment, and for non live blogging. Jon Yarowsky NACBA lobbyist. Two branches of government now involved in politics. Everything in DC […]
NACBA Live Blog: Caselaw Update
Welcome to the 20th annual NACBA convention, here in San Antonio, TX. We’ll be live blogging much of the convention over the next few days, so stay on this site for all the updates.
Bankruptcy Mastery Will Provide Live Coverage Of NACBA San Antonio Convention
I hate taking notes during conventions. I know I should, but I don’t do it – ever. As a consequence, I forget a good chunk of what I’ve learned. I also get that some people won’t be in San Antonio for the NACBA convention April 27 – 29. So I’ve prevailed on Cathy for the […]
Revisiting Those Things I Just “Know”
One of the stock lines in my sermon to clients about the importance of telling the entire and complete truth in the bankruptcy schedules has been the threat of denial of discharge. If your discharge is denied, I intone, those debts are forever non dischargeable in bankruptcy. It’s akin to the parental threat: the bogeyman […]
Can I Have Those Words Back, Please?
It was one of those occasions when in retrospect, you’re certain there is no neural path between your brain and your mouth. And it happened in public, in a courtroom, with my client present. My creditor client filed an objection to confirmation of a Chapter 13 in pro per. Opposing counsel filed a response. The […]
The Business Lease: Who’s On First?
A business lease often looms as one of the biggest claims in a bankruptcy case and a big issue for a small business. For bankruptcy lawyers, the lease raises, as most of these things do, both traps and opportunities Beyond the common subject matter, today’s observations are probably otherwise without a theme. Pivotal issue is […]
A Dozen Nuggets Hidden In The Tax Return
Read any interesting tax returns lately? As bankruptcy lawyers, we’re required to collect them from our clients and funnel them to the trustee. But, are you reading them? Often, as a former employee used to say, they’re dry as dinosaur bones. But almost as equally, they provide new information or clues about assets and […]
