President’s Column After spending the past year shadowing our outgoing ABI President, Soneet R. Kapila of KapilaMukamal, LLP (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), I look forward to following in his footsteps as ABI President. His work with the Subchapte…
Questions and Answers with USTP Director Tara Twomey By Tara Twomey T ara Twomey became director of the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees on Feb. 27, 2023. In this article, she answers some questions for the ABI Journal about her career in…
Benchnotes By Aaron M. Kaufman, Bradley D. Pack and Christina Sanfelippo Preference Claims Under § 547 Are Estate Property and May Be Sold Joining the Eighth and Ninth Circuits, 1 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that cl…
Standing Trustees Should Be Paid in Unconfirmed Cases By Grant Rosinko Recent decisions in several circuits have denied compensation to standing trustees when a chapter 13 case is dismissed prior to plan confirmation. There is now a split o…
Assessing In re Topp’s Impact on Interest Rates for Secured Creditors By Michael Miller The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit decided Farm Credit Servs. of Am. FLCA v. Topp (In re Topp) on Aug. 3, 2023. 1 The central issue was th…