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Justia Legal Resources: Bankruptcy Law Center

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When debts pile up, a consumer or a business owner may feel that bankruptcy offers the best way to relieve the mounting stress. Filing for bankruptcy requires careful thought and planning, though. The Bankruptcy Law Center provided by Justia can serve as a reference. How Does Filing for Bankruptcy Protect a Debtor?

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Lex Machina Adds Court Analytics for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Cases

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The legal analytics platform Lex Machina , which is owned by LexisNexis, has again expanded its coverage, this time adding a Chapter 11 bankruptcy module that provides legal analytics for over 115,000 Chapter 11 proceedings. The module includes the entire docket in any bankruptcy proceeding filed after 2009 in a U.S.

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Guest Post: Building Better Civil Justice Systems Isn’t Just About The Funding

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This observation applies manifestly to our court systems: an inefficient and complicated civil justice system has become its own greatest enemy, frustrating its very purpose of providing access to civil justice for all. If courts move to standardize the collection of “data” (i.e.,

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Three Ways AI-Assisted Court Reporting Helps Improve Client Experience 

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Dean Whalen, Chief Legal Officer of Readback, a new AI-assisted deposition court reporting platform, explains how AI-assisted court reporting addresses the stenographer talent crunch — with added benefits. By 2010, however, the video rental giant would accrue over $1 billion in losses and file for bankruptcy. The reason?

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First Amendment Protects Non-Lawyers in Providing Legal Advice in Debt Cases, Federal Court Rules

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And enjoining enforcement against Plaintiffs alone, whose activities are carefully limited to out-of-court advice, will not threaten the overall regulatory exclusivity of the legal profession.” The Court holds that it does.” … But Plaintiffs have designed a unique program of their own.

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Wolters Kluwer’s Almanac of the Federal Judiciary Now Includes Access to Judges’ Profiles and Reviews from Courtroom Insight

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The Almanac of the Federal Judiciary is a publication that provides biographic profiles and financial disclosure information for every federal judge, including those sitting on the Supreme Court, Appellate Courts, Districts Courts, Bankruptcy Courts, and Specialized Courts.

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How Attorneys Can Use Legal Data for Strategic Law Firm Positioning

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A great example of how firms can use short-term trends to shore up their practices and prepare for downturns comes from the dramatic decline in bankruptcy cases filed in 2020. For instance, one trend we reported on previously was the slow and steady decline of asbestos-related litigation in state courts.

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