The client came to see me on a sunny Thursday in the middle of an otherwise cold winter, wondering what had happened to her ordinary Chapter 7 bankruptcy case. I hated to be the bearer of bad news, but there it was. This kind and gentle man had filed for bankruptcy with another (very competent) [...]
April 2011
Has your legal practice jumped on the QR Code bandwagon or has the QR Code jumped the shark? A QR Code, or “Q”, for short, is the latest greatest must-have high-tech business card you can wear on your sleeve, email, Gmail, even pony-express mail, and, yes you can tattoo it onto a body part. Think [...]
My dear Houston friend and colleague, Jeff Norman, has been appointed as the new Chapter 13 Trustee for Columbus, Ohio. Jeff begins his new job on June 1, 2011. Jeff is an experienced board certified bankruptcy attorney and litigator with over 23 years experience. He is Board Certified in Consumer Bankruptcy Law by the Texas [...]
Two years ago, the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office proposed regulations that would help control debt collector abuses (as reported by Bankruptcy Law Network here) by requiring debt collectors to inform people that the debt they were trying to collect was too old to try to collect in a court proceeding. The final rule went [...]
For some time, I have been exposing the fraud that is the Lender Processing Services (and mortgage servicers in general) business model. I have discussed how it is so revered by the mortgage servicing community because it will do anything, legal or illegal, to help a mortgage servicer foreclose your home. It’s one thing when [...]
Congratulations to Bankruptcy Law Network’s Brett Weiss and Adrian Lapas on being awarded the 2011 Distinguished Service Award by the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys at its annual convention in Washington DC. The awards were presented to Brett and Adrian by NACBA President Billy Brewer “In Recognition of and Appreciation for your Extraordinary [...]
