Podcast - Betty… ¿y si nos vamos a la reorganización?
Coan vs Killilea, the Dunne Cross-Border Insolvency Case Explained
Spotlight on Financial Services- Consumer bankruptcy
SDNY Chooses “Time Approach” to Calculating Lease Termination Damages Collectible Against a Bankrupt Estate
Cannabis and Bankruptcy, Ep. 2: Considerations for Businesses [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 54]
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 383: Talking about Money with Jesse Mecham, Founder of You Need A Budget
Recent Tenth Circuit Decision in John Q Hammons Fall Following SCOTUS’ Decision in Siegel v. Fitzgerald Could Result in Significant Refunds for Certain Chapter 11 Debtors
What Happens When a Cryptocurrency Platform Goes Bankrupt?
The Constitutionality of Increased Trustee Fees In Bankruptcy
The Burr Broadcast: CFPB Investigating Practices That Leave Workers Indebted to Employers
Legally Qualified: A Look at Recent Trends that May Affect Bankruptcies and Restructuring in the Year Ahead
The Critical Nature of Bankruptcy Dates and Deadlines
Common Benefits Issues in Bankruptcy
2022 Bankruptcy & Restructuring Outlook
Credit Eco to Go Podcast: Competing for the Attention of the Consumer
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 146: Listen and Learn -- Mortgages and Priority
Credit Eco to Go Podcast - The Results are In: Consumers Really Do Respond Better to Digital Communications
Repossessions and Bankruptcy Post-COVID, Post-Fulton [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 26]
Don’t Wait! What Businesses Should do at the First Sign of Financial Trouble
Nota Bene Podcast Episode 132: 2021 Business Bankruptcy Trends with Ori Katz
On July 16, 2025, the Appellate Division, Second Department declined to apply the Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act (FAPA) to a mortgage foreclosure commenced prior to FAPA’s enactment, pursuant to the doctrine of judicial...more
In a recent decision in New York County Supreme Court, the Court granted the plaintiff lender’s pre-summary judgment motion to appoint a receiver in a mortgage foreclosure action, even though the defendants (borrower)...more
When a bankruptcy case is filed, most disputes are addressed through motions and hearings within the main case. However, certain matters demand more formal litigation—complete with a complaint, discovery, and trial. These...more
Merchant cash advance (MCA) funding provides a quick, “non loan” alternative for small businesses desiring to access additional capital, and its use has become prevalent in the last decade. Given the speed at which MCA...more
The US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware recently reaffirmed but limited the holding of In re DSI Renal Holdings, LLC, which held that under Third Circuit law, neither debtors nor trustees could bring fraudulent...more
The power of a bankruptcy trustee or chapter 11 debtor-in-possession ("DIP") to avoid pre-bankruptcy preferential transfers is an important tool designed to promote the bankruptcy policy of equality of distribution and to...more
Todd Christenson filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy in November 2010. In February 2011, a federal bankruptcy court in Minnesota discharged Christenson’s debts and, later the same year, closed the case. But almost 15 years...more
Last week, the Texas Supreme Court answered the Fifth Circuit’s certified question as to whether simultaneous rescission and reacceleration can reset the limitations period under Texas Law by holding that “a rescission that...more
In Brown v. MRS BPO, LLC, the Northern District of Illinois, acting on its own motion, granted summary judgment in favor of the defense on claims asserting violations of the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA)....more
A U.S. District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin recently denied both the defendant and plaintiff’s summary judgment motions in a Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) case, holding that the reasonableness of the...more
On May 4, 2022, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Hawaii avoided, as fraudulent transfers, debtors’ guarantee of an affiliate entity’s preexisting debts. In 2019, Tianjin Dinghui Hongjun Equity Investment...more
In a recent summary order in an appeal from a bankruptcy court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reaffirmed that mere receipt of a fraudulent transfer is not always sufficient to render the recipient...more
A district court judge recently reversed and remanded a well-known bankruptcy decision discharging a significant student loan debt. In the Southern District of New York, Judge Philip Halpern, reviewing the bankruptcy court’s...more
The Bankruptcy Code grants the power to avoid certain transactions to a bankruptcy trustee or debtor-in-possession. See, e.g., 11 U.S.C. §§ 544, 547–48. Is there a general requirement that these avoidance powers only be...more
A recent case shows how even late payments can be used to satisfy the ordinary course of business defense in a preference avoidance action. Baumgart v. Savani Props Ltd. (In re Murphy), Case No. 20-11873, Adv. Pro. No....more
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York recently denied cross-motions for summary judgment on a debtor’s claim that a law firm’s validation notice constituted a meaningful attorney involvement violation...more
City of Chicago v. Fulton, Case No. 19–357 (2021). The mere retention of estate property after the filing of a bankruptcy petition does not violate the automatic stay under 11 U.S.C. §362(a)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code. ...more
In the hectic world of North Carolina civil litigation, the focused practitioner understandably may lose sight of the forest for the individual trees. Analyzing thousands of pages of poorly-copied document production for that...more
Education Credit Management Corporation (“ECMC”), the guarantor of the student loan debt ruled dischargeable last month by the Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, is...more
The question of what constitutes a “securities claim” in the context of public company D&O policies is often debated in insurance coverage disputes, and the answer to this question can have significant effects on the scope of...more
Real Property Update - • Foreclosure / Reverse Mortgage / Condition Precedent: bank failed to establish that the subject property was not the principal residence of surviving co-borrower under its reverse mortgage, a...more
Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Chris Lazarini examined further developments in a case involving a former UBS investment advisor’s attempt to prevent the company from collecting on promissory notes the advisor owed to UBS upon...more
Regulation - CMS Contemplating Telemedicine Changes - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published what it described as a "major proposed rule" that covers a number of topics that could have...more
Meyers v. Quiz-Dia LLC, C.A. No. 9878-VCL (Del. Ch. Mar. 16, 2018) - This is an interesting indemnification decision for its handling of subrogation rights in the indemnification context, one involving former Quiznos...more
In Dahlin v. Lyondell Chemical Co., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 1956 (8th Cir. Jan. 26, 2018), the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an argument that bankruptcy debtors were required by due process to provide more prominent...more