Practice and Procedure

Individual Chapter 11 Cases after BAPCPA: Can You Still Close the Case Early?

Individual Chapter 11 Cases after BAPCPA: Can You Still Close the Case Early? Practitioners, judges and scholars have debated the ins and outs of BAPCPA in countless seminars and scholarly efforts. One area that courts will inevitably address pertains to the changes

Preferential First-day Orders Same Question Different Look

Several years ago, this column addressed the then-growing tendency of bankruptcy courts to enter "first-day orders" allowing debtors to make post-petition payments on account of pre-petition unsecured employee wage claims over and above the priority limit established in