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• Western District of Tennessee – July 17 closing date

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• Western District of Washington – August 19 closing date

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• Southern District of Ohio – Term Law Clerk – August 18 closing date

• CARES Act Makes This Ideal Time for a Student-Loan Payment Checkup: That’s Rich!

• Student Loan Forgiveness Shouldn’t Cost This Much

• Memphis, TN – 9,000 Eviction Hearings Stalled by Coronavirus Resume – Advocates Say It’s the Beginning of a Crisis

• Louisville May Use Federal Relief Funds to Help People Pay Rent Amid COVID-19 Impacts

• N.Y.C., Facing Pandemic Fallout, Freezes Rent for 2 Million Tenants for a Year – Landlords, citing rising costs, had pushed for increases. Tenants had argued for rollbacks because of the coronavirus outbreak’s financial toll.

• Princeton University’s Eviction Lab has created a directory of municipal and state policy changes for evictions.

• Columbia University’s detailed database of legal orders pertaining to the COVID-19 epidemic

• Judge Gives Former Westlake Lawyer Prison Time for Stealing Clients’ Money – U.S. District Judge ordered John Gold to prison for embezzling more than $49,000 in a bankruptcy case and fraudulently endorsing a check for more than $15,000.

• Goshen Man Charged in $4.3M Investment Fraud Scheme Involving Amish

An excellent, scholarly resource for your research needs on 11 U.S.C. §1325(a)(5)(B). We will publish this 13-paged piece in four parts in consecutive weeks.

This week’s sections include: Cramdown Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §1325(a)(5)(B) and BAPCPA Limitations on the Cramdown Provision

Same GREAT Conference – Online Format

“This decision was disappointing for all as we were all looking forward to being in San Diego.” Mary Viegelahn, NACTT Program Chair

Each session will be released online on the day it was scheduled to be presented in San Diego – July 9-11. All sessions will be available to watch until August 10th. If you watch all sessions, it is the equivalent of 23 hours of 45-minute CLE. The staff track will also be recorded and released in the same format.

All late registration fees have been waived so REGISTER NOW!!

“One of the cosmic ironies of our legal system is that it costs money to file bankruptcy. Bankruptcy gets you out of debt only if you have the money to file.”

This piece from one of our favorite authors can be used on your blog or to educate non-bankruptcy attorneys on the benefits of Chapter 13 bankruptcy.

• Why Zoom Meetings Are So Dissatisfying – Internet Chats Disrupt the Automatic, Split-Second Cues on Which Conversation Relies. . . “Adding these pauses to work calls can make speakers seem less convincing.” (You will have to register for a free account in order to read this article but it is worth it. It discusses how delays in our normal patterns of speech experienced in all online video communication platforms affect credibility – this could mean between an attorney and a potential client, a debtor and a trustee/staff attorney at a 341, a witness and a judge, an attorney and a judge, etc.)

• How to Look Better on Zoom (and Other Video-Calling Apps)

• Preparing to Participate in a Zoom Video Hearing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Western District of Wisconsin (The Best Practices contained in this link are applicable for all courts.)

Other helpful hints:

• Use a good ol’ ethernet cable instead of wi-fi whenever possible
• Test your internet speed – type the phrase “speed test” into a Google search; the first search result will help you determine your connection speed
• Make sure you instruct your client to be dressed – and properly – no shirtless 341 attendance – male or female
• Make sure you client is awake before your case is called
• Mute the ringer on your phones – cell and landline