The public pension fund of a U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean recently filed for bankruptcy. If the case is allowed to proceed, it could have major implications for retirees all across the U.S.

Thoughts from a Maryland Bankruptcy Lawyer http://www.drescherlaw.com Part 2 of the Introduction to Bankruptcy Preferences. Bankruptcy preferences are best described as ironic: in creating a law supposedly based on fairness, Congress has created a law that unfairly punishes a defendant who has done nothing wrong. It is an awesome and an awful ...

Greetings! Almost everyone has a smartphone these days, and we're all beginning to believe that using tablets will someday take the place of bulky paper files. But how do you use them for more than texts, emails and phone calls?

For the Bankruptcy Beat team, PACER (which stands for Public Access to Court Electronic Records) is basically a way of life. The federally mandated system, managed by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, began in 1988...

March deals brought dramatic contrast between the old and new. One of the companies that invented automatic typesetting over 100 years ago, Monotype, completed a landmark acquisition, while BroadSign, a leader in the...

In re JER/Jameson Mezz Borrower II and In re General Growth Properties Inc. reinforce the importance of careful planning in Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. The GGP case encourages the filing of a Chapter 11 petition sooner rather than later, and Mezz II reveals the risk and possible consequence of filing too late, say Vincent Roldan of Vandenberg & Feliu LLP and Camisha Simmons of Fulbright & Jawors