Well, the long awaited statistics for blog usage are here — and without further ado, here they are:
March was our best month ever for visitors and pages viewed here at www.texaslawyerblog.com [which can also be reached at http://www.texasbankruptcyblog.com just FYI...].
March: 9,393 hits from 1,329 visitors. OK OK that is not different [...]

Delphi, the largest U.S. auto supplier says it will ask the Bankruptcy Court to void all of its labor contracts. Delphi filed for bankruptcy protection in October. Delphi Chairman and CEO Robert S. “Steve” Miller said in a statement “Emergence from the Chapter 11 process in the U.S. requires that we make difficult, [...]

Fast Company magazine has an excerpt on its site from the book “The Wal-Mart Effect : How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works–and How It’s Transforming the American Economy” by Charles Fishman (who is a senior writer for Fast Company).
The excerpt is an interesting account of what led Jim Wier, the CEO of [...]

Judge Sidney Brooks of the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado recently entered an order dismissing a Chapter 11 proceeding. In dismissing the bankruptcy, he also issued an opinion addressing a drafting problem with the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (”BAPCPA”).
In the case of in re TCR of [...]

In what looks like a definite word on the subject, bankruptcy filing fees will be higher effective Sunday April 9. Specifically …
The Chapter 7 filing fee increases to $299.
The Chapter 13 filing fee increase to $274.
A motion to Convert 7 to Chapter 11 will now be $755, and a motion to Convert 13 to Chapter [...]

Here is a link to the latest public appearance of my GTO — (you need to scroll to the right to see it)
Here is the link: http://www.lingenfelter.com/lperides.htm
Mike

In an opinion entered on March 24, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an order requiring an attorney to disgorge fees he received to represent a Chapter 13 debtor (James McGregory) when that attorney later represented McGregory and Wells-Fargo bank in a post-petition transaction.
The attorney, Ross Briggs, represented the debtor in a Chapter 13 [...]

The Federal Trade Commission and the Washington State Attorney General have filed suit to stop Debt Solutions Inc., and three other telemarketers from charging consumers for a “debt elimination program” that promised to reduce credit card interest rates and save consumers thousands of dollars. The agencies allege the businesses marketed themselves to consumers over the [...]

Fort Worth’s Landmark Tower was imploded on Saturday, March 18, 2006. The 30-story former office tower was built in 1954 and had been vacant for more than a decade. Located at Seventh and Houston streets, this towering structure was located just two blocks from our law office.
XTO Energy has owned the building for [...]

In a recently filed suit, Bain Capital, together with various individuals involved with Bain’s purchase and management of KB Toys have been accused by the liquidation trust of KB Toys of taking out excessive amounts of money from the company which then caused it to be unable to pay its creditors, thus causing it to [...]