Will CFPB Nominee Richard Cordray Pass the Senate's Mean Test?

Introduction By Vijay Malik, Law Student at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska

Richard Cordray’s confirmation as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is anything but certain.  Forty-four Republican senators are committed to blocking Cordray’s appointment unless the newly created federal agency is restructured.  As the former attorney general of Ohio, Cordray attracted national attention . . . → Read More: Will CFPB Nominee Richard Cordray Pass the Senate’s Mean Test?

SURF’S UP IN ANAHEIM!

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE 46th NACTT CONFERENCE

By Michael B. Joseph, NACTT President, Robert G. Drummond, NACTT Vice President and Michaela White,

Editor and Advisor of the NACTT Academy

The National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees, together with the NACTT Academy for Consumer Bankruptcy Education, congratulates you on . . . → Read More: SURF’S UP IN ANAHEIM!

Richard Wieland becomes US Trustee for Region 19

Attorney General Eric Holder recently appointed Richard Wieland, the former U.S. Trustee for Region 20 (Kansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico) to serve as US Trustee for Region 19 (Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming).  Mr. Wieland will serve for an interim period, which began on July 15th.

Mr. Wieland, who served as a trial attorney in . . . → Read More: Richard Wieland becomes US Trustee for Region 19

The Organized Lawyer

The Organized Lawyer (Carolina Academic Press, 2009)

By Kelly Lynn Anders

Working in the field of law requires the management of an enormous amount of information, a skill seldom addressed in law school. We’re tuned in, online, hooked up, and essentially accessible 24 hours a day— and challenges with information overload only promise to . . . → Read More: The Organized Lawyer

A Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery Inside An Enigma: The Collapse of the Subprime Mortgage Market

A Review of Michael Lewis’ New York Times Bestseller, The Big Short

By Vijay Malik

Very few had ever heard of Michael Burry ten years ago.  Now, not only has he been featured in acclaimed author Michael Lewis’ #1 New York Times Bestseller, The Big Short, but also on 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair, . . . → Read More: A Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery Inside An Enigma: The Collapse of the Subprime Mortgage Market

The Born Ultimatum

Introduction by Vijay Malik

In The Warning, Frontline Producer Michael Kirk chronicles the failed, behind-the-scenes campaign of Brooksley Born, the head of a little-known regulatory agency, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to regulate the obscure, trillion-dollar derivatives market that ultimately helped trigger the financial collapse of 2008. Born warned many of the country’s . . . → Read More: The Born Ultimatum

Distress Investing – Principles and Technique

Distress Investing – Principles and Technique

By Martin Whitman & Fred Diz

Book Review by Vijay Malik

The collapse of many of Wall Street’s longstanding icons during the recent credit crisis perhaps presaged a new era in global financial markets.  While the implosion seemed instantaneous, with the value of publicly . . . → Read More: Distress Investing – Principles and Technique

Procedures Governing Administrative Review of a United States Trustee's Decision To Deny a Chapter 12 or Chapter 13 Standing Trustee's Claim of Actual, Necessary Expenses

Introduction by Vijay Malik

A debtor’s bankruptcy filing under chapter 12 and 13 includes a plan whereby the debtor pays her creditors a percentage of the amount owed to them over a certain period of time.  Upon confirmation by the bankruptcy court, a standing trustee will administer the plan under the supervision of a . . . → Read More: Procedures Governing Administrative Review of a United States Trustee’s Decision To Deny a Chapter 12 or Chapter 13 Standing Trustee’s Claim of Actual, Necessary Expenses

Book Review – Paul Ingrassia, Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry’s Road to Bankruptcy and Bailout – and Beyond

By Michael Schmidt

Introduction

Paul Ingrassia detailed the history of the American automobile industry in his book, Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry’s Road to Bankruptcy and Bailout – and Beyond, starting in the year 1863, the year of Henry Ford’s birth, up through the year 2009.  The book focused on the “Big Three” . . . → Read More: Book Review – Paul Ingrassia, Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry’s Road to Bankruptcy and Bailout – and Beyond

THE NEWEST FORECLOSURE STALL TACTIC AND WHETHER LENDERS SHOULD CHASE THE WILD GOOSE OR SHOOT ON SIGHT

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