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ABI Journal

July 02, 2025

The inability to modify a Section 524(a) discharge put the Ninth Circuit BAP in a bind.

July 01, 2025

A firm wasn’t disqualified when attorneys who left the firm long ago had represented an adversary in a possibly similar engagement.

June 26, 2025

In California, bringing litigation with a marginal possibility of success could be a bad bet whenever a contract permits one side to recover attorneys’ fees.

June 25, 2025

Seventh Circuit holds that comparative fault requires a reduction in compensatory damages for a discharge violation but not for a debtor’s attorneys’ fees.

June 18, 2025

A BAP decision raises the question of whether Ninth Circuit authority has been implicitly overruled by Supreme Court decisions.

June 17, 2025

Selling a debtor’s claims must be structured to avoid champerty under state law.

April 29, 2025

The panel trustee had been found in state court to be a spousal abuser who lied in obtaining a Covid loan.

April 24, 2025

Given that chapter 7 has remedies like denial of discharge for a debtor’s misconduct, bad faith in chapter 11 doesn’t allow dismissal on conversion to chapter 7.

April 14, 2025

The district judge who excoriated Jackson Walker in a decision last year will now decide whether the firm must disgorge what it was paid in dozens of large chapter 11 cases.

April 02, 2025

A contempt sanction upholds the integrity of the court and doesn’t invoke Rule 69(a).