January 17 is Martin Luther King Day, but unlike many, I won’t be “off” from work. I’ll be presenting at and attending the ABI’s Northeast Consumer Winter Conference at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. I can understand how it might seem disrespectful to be attending a conference on a day when we should be celebrating the life of a civil rights leader. But it is also, I think, particularly fitting. Let me explain…
Posts Tagged ‘Chapter 7 Trustee’
A Friendly Reminder to List it or Lose it
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
If you don’t list all of your property on your bankruptcy schedules, you risk losing it. Let me repeat this again, just in case you think I might be kidding: if you do not list all of your property on your bankruptcy schedules, you will lose it.
I’ve written about this before and I came across a recent decision out of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that reminds is that “list it or lose it” is alive and well. (more…)
When Bankruptcy Attorneys do a Wicked Bad Job
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
I’ve been doing a lot of research lately on attorney malpractice… specifically, bankruptcy attorney malpractice. More and more attorneys are popping into bankruptcy practice because they think it’s the new growth area. And sadly, some are doing a god-awful job at it – and in some cases, they are hurting debtors. So in my research, I came across this case that came down last Friday out of the Northern District of California.
What caught my eye about it was the opening sentence: “[t]he schedules filed in this Chapter 7 case by [debtors’] attorney …contained horrific omissions, including a furniture store filled with furniture, a $13,000.00 bank account, a 2008 Mercedes automobile, and real property.” [emphasis added]. As I read the decision, I learned that the term “horrific” was justified, and then I wondered to myself…’how many other lawyers are out there doing the exact same thing as this guy?’