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10 Tips for Navigating the Commercial Tenant Bankruptcy Process Image

10 Tips for Navigating the Commercial Tenant Bankruptcy Process

Stephanie C. Lieb & Alexander Zesch

Retail, entertainment and hospitality have been hit particularly hard by government-mandated COVID-19 shutdowns. For many, the road ahead will end in, or lead through, bankruptcy. Bankruptcy law has a language of its own, making it challenging to navigate the process for everyone involved, including for the landlords of bankrupt businesses worried about missing rent payments.

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Appellate Courts Split On Bankruptcy Ownership of Malpractice Claims Image

Appellate Courts Split On Bankruptcy Ownership of Malpractice Claims

Michael L. Cook

Judicial hair-splitting, when applying state law to federal bankruptcy cases, creates only uncertainty.

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Asserting the Common Interest Doctrine In Plan-Related Discovery

Francis J. Lawall & Marcy J. McLaughlin Smith

The common interest doctrine can be a powerful tool when used to block discovery of relevant and sometimes critical evidence. However, a determination of when it can be invoked requires a highly fact-intensive analysis.

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How Does a Bankruptcy Litigator Move from One Law Firm to Another? Image

How Does a Bankruptcy Litigator Move from One Law Firm to Another?

Earl M. Forte 

Chapter 11 work can be episodic and uneven, and while litigation skills are essential, it is also quite specialized. So, given these qualities, how does a bankruptcy litigator go about moving from one law firm to another, and what are the pitfalls?

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What a Post-COVID-19 World: Debtors' Extraordinary Responses to COVID-19 Image

What a Post-COVID-19 World: Debtors' Extraordinary Responses to COVID-19

Gerard S. Catalanello & Kimberly J. Kodis

The impact of the pandemic rages on and, in its path leaves many businesses and industries demolished or, at best, severely impaired. Once again, the Bankruptcy Code has been called upon to provide relief to those in dire need

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ABCs As an Alternative to Bankruptcy for Implementing Distressed Transactions Image

ABCs As an Alternative to Bankruptcy for Implementing Distressed Transactions

David S. Kupetz

Companies suffering financial distress frequently reach a crossroads where they need to either implement some type of transaction or will be forced to liquidate. In developing a plan for moving forward, management should evaluate and determine, with appropriate input from outside experts, feasible alternatives.

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Consumer Bankruptcies In 2021 Can Benefit Both Client and Practitioner Image

Consumer Bankruptcies In 2021 Can Benefit Both Client and Practitioner

Joshua Denbeaux, Lee M. Perlman & Heidi Spivak

As in past times of economic turmoil, it is anticipated that there will be a surge in residential foreclosures, debt collection activity, and the resultant wave of consumer bankruptcy filings.

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Perfecting Notice and Saving $$

Tinamarie Feil

The number one goal to save money while perfecting notice should be elimination of the production and mailing of paper notices while expediting notice delivery and eliminating postage costs.

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U.S. Supreme Court Allows Repossessing Secured Lender to Hold Collateral Pending Bankruptcy Stay Image

U.S. Supreme Court Allows Repossessing Secured Lender to Hold Collateral Pending Bankruptcy Stay

Michael L. Cook

A secured lender's "mere retention of property [after a pre-bankruptcy–repossession] does not violate" the automatic stay provision of the Bankruptcy Code, held a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court in City of Chicago v. Fulton.

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Shielding Retainer Fees Prior to Client's Bankruptcy

Milton Williams & Christopher Dioguardi

Which type of retainer agreement gives attorneys the best chance to preemptively shield their retainer fees before a client ends up in bankruptcy or the Department of Justice seizes and forfeits the client's assets?

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