E-Everything for Bankruptcy Lawyers

Recent Posts from E-Everything for Bankruptcy Lawyers

• E-Everything Going Dark

  For those last 2 remaining readers left after all this time, E-Everything is going dark, fini, no mas. Even though these dark economic times should be the golden days of the modern bankruptcy era, the…

• Federal Rule of Evidence 502 and the Bankruptcy Lawyer

  At long last, proposed Federal Rule of Evidence 502 has been introduced to the Senate as S.2450. In a nutshell, FRE 502 is intended to reduce the likelihood of waiver of attorney-client privilege and work…

• Friendly Reminder about Bankruptcy Rule 9037...

  Now that December 1 has come and gone, and another set of amendments of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure has become effective, time for a belated reminder that Bankruptcy Rule 9037 has been adopted.…

• The Mitchell Report: Moral Bankruptcy and MLB

  To my surprise, the release of the Mitchell report is clearly pulling readers away from this site. Here is the link to the report.As a matter of geeky interest, there are at least three instances…

• Trustee "Smart Form" May Become Data-Miner's Smart Bomb

  I have been sitting on this one a while, but when ALM and ABI picked up the story, decided it was worth a few electrons in this forum. In at least the last 2 years,…

• Forget Sub-Prime: The Real Action in E-Bankruptcy may be the Struggling Adult Industry

  A recent article in Conde' Nast Portfolio.com, written by Claire Hoffman details the financial struggles of the heavy-hitters in the adult industry, such as Vivid Entertainment, as a result of the growing phenomenon of free…

• Trouble at E-Trade Proves that Sub-Prime Woes Rankle E-Paradise

  Recent conjecture that E-Trade may be forced to file bankruptcy as a result of the continuing sub-prime mortgage fiasco shows that even "e-commerce" is vulnerable to exposure. Outside of foreclosures and shocking re-adjustment of ARM's,…

• Hawaiian Airlines Bankruptcy: Issuing a "Litigation Hold" May not be Enough when Rogue Employee Destroys ESI

  Mesa Air Group, a party in bankruptcy litigation with debtor Hawaiian Airlines (HA), got an ugly pre-Halloween surprise from the bankruptcy court hearing the case. According to the the recent opinion in Adv. Proc No…

• State Bar of Texas Displays Technological Dominance Through Recently Announced YouTube Contest

  My friend John Sirman and his cohorts at the State Bar of Texas continue to amaze me. Earlier this year, the Texas Bar was the first bar organization in the country to offer its own…

• Fulbright Litigation Survey Highlights E-Discovery Issues

  Our Biglaw friends at Fulbright & Jaworski have released their 4th annual Litigation Trends Survey (available here) which on its own is something of an interesting read. The more interesting tidbits relate, of course, to…