Molly Simons

Senior Bankruptcy Counsel, MDK (Blue Ash, Ohio)

Biography

Molly Simons has been a licensed attorney since 2008 after graduating from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University. With an undergraduate degree in Hospitality Food Service Management from Kent State University, Molly is a unique attorney as she approaches the practice of law with a hospitality background. Client’s satisfaction is of the utmost importance to her.

Molly’s primary focus for the first ten years of her practice was as a consumer Chapter 13 and Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Attorney representing Debtors. She moved to the Creditor side of bankruptcy in 2018 and joined MDK as Senior Attorney in July of 2025.

Molly is licensed in the States of Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, and West Virginia and is admitted federally in all federal jurisdictions for Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, West Virginia, Colorado and Wisconsin. She is formally the Co-Chair of the Bankruptcy Committee with the Cincinnati Bar Association and was recently accepted to her second term on the  Attorney Advisory Committee for the Southern District of Ohio.

Articles by Molly Simons

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October 5, 2025
Bankruptcy couldn’t wipe away debts for discrimination and retaliation—intentional harm is non-dischargeable.
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June 22, 2025
“The non filing of claims is a real situation which happens all the time and it serves no one, least of all the debtor.”
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November 3, 2024
Attorney Michael McCormick took the win when Judge Cavender of the Northern District of Georgia held nothing back in an October 2024 reported decision. The Judge made his feelings well known as he assessed and described the history of this Mortgage Claim/Lender and this abusive Debtor’s past and ongoing behaviors.
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August 28, 2022
If you put your ear to the ground you may hear the rumblings regarding a change to Bankruptcy Rule 3002.1 requiring the institution of a mid-case bankruptcy audit. This mid-case audit would be like the Notice of Final Cure but would be performed by a trustee’s office in the middle of a pending Chapter 13, rather than at the end,...
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June 26, 2022
Consider if you will that your client has just filed a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy. They have intelligently chosen to surrender a luxury item - a boat or 4-wheeler or even that extra vehicle they don’t need. Because the creditor would like to preserve the value of the collateral by obtaining possession quickly, they file a Motion for Relief shortly after...
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