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By Henry E. Hildebrand, III, Chapter 13 Trustee for the Middle District of Tennessee

In re Bradley, 2013 WL 3753559, *22, *23, *28, *50 (Bankr. S.D. Tex. July 16, 2013) (Bohm)

A debtor’s attorney, his firm and the owners of the firm would be individually sanctioned for filing documents without obtaining the debtor’s signature, verification, or authorization and for utilizing “appearance attorneys” in the representation of their clients.

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In a long and comprehensive decision, Judge Jeff Bohm, the Chief Bankruptcy Judge of the Southern District of Texas, reviewed the methods by which an . . .

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