Rochelle's Daily Wire

Even for egregious, repeated violations of Bankruptcy Rule 3002.1, the bankruptcy court may only award recovery of economic losses, never punitive damages.

The Seventh Circuit provided a useful guide for how much supervision a lawyer must provide when a nonlawyer is doing most of the work.

Courts are continuing to grapple with bifurcated fee arrangements allowing chapter 7 debtors to pay the entire fee after filing.

Local or state bar groups should work up standard-form retainer agreements and disclosures to facilitate bifurcated fee arrangements.

Delaware bankruptcy judge trusts that dating lawyers at adversary firms didn’t disclose client confidences.

Incivility may be acceptable in matrimonial matters, but not when the lawyer represents a debtor.

The Supreme Court’s Midland Funding opinion was no defense to invocation of a Nevada statute shifting fees and compelling the creditor to pay the debtor’s costs in expunging stale claims.

Another court strains to explain why costs incurred by disciplinary authorities were not in compensation for “actual pecuniary loss.”

A contested matter in bankruptcy court isn’t a ‘civil action’ allowing the debtor to recover attorneys’ fees from the U.S. Trustee under the Equal Access to Justice Act.

The record as a whole and the likelihood of further abuse justify a pre-filing injunction.