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Update: Student Loans

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 20:12

Sorry for the lack of recent posts.  Final exams took considerable time away from me.  I'll try to be better in the future.

Types of Bankruptcy

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 12/27/2012 - 23:22

Below is a guest post offering a concise description of the four main types of bankruptcy:

Bankruptcy Judges

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 10/18/2012 - 19:58

I'd like to share a paper that I wrote earlier this year for ABI's student writing competition.  It's about the lack of life tenure for Bankruptcy Judges.

Medical Malpractice Debts

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 09/14/2012 - 19:28

            Sorry about not posting in a while – the start of the fall semester and the submission of job applications has taken considerable time.

The Benefits of Bankruptcy

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 07/27/2012 - 21:04

Last weekend I watched the movie Larry Crowne, starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.  In the movie, Tom Hanks plays a character that had recently been terminated for his job due to his lack of formal education, so he decided to go back to community college to remedy the situation.  He took an economics class there with an eccentric professor.  One day, the two of them were outside the school having a discussion on whether there were any economic benefits to filing for bankruptcy, I believe with Tom Hanks arguing that there were not and the professor arguing that there were.  Granted, this w

Credit Reform

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 21:29

As a person who regularly checks his credit report, I was surprised a few years ago when one of the credit bureaus reported that I had filed for bankruptcy.  This was not true; I was only eighteen or nineteen at the time, and had no reason to file.  It was actually a family member of mine who had filed for bankruptcy.  Adding to the absurdity of the situation was that the bankruptcy had been filed in 1995, when I was only 7 years old.  Despite the inherent nonsense, I still had trouble convincing the representative of the credit bureau over the phone that the bankruptcy did not actually bel

Student Loans

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 02:13

Last week, I came across an article in the Washington Examiner while I was riding the metro to work. This article noted that residents of Maryland carry more student loan debt than any other state in the country at $33,087. Virginia ranked sixth at $30,855. The average is $29,088. Compared to the debt load I will be carrying due to law school, these numbers actually seem rather modest to me, but they still go to show that student loan debt is on the rise, especially in this geographic region.

Introduction

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 05:16

Thanks for taking the time to check out a blog whose topic probably seems boring and depressing to a lot of people. My goal here is to show that bankruptcy can actually be very practical and interesting, and for many people it instills a sense of relief, rather than depression.