According to panelists at the latest American Bankruptcy Institute’s conference in New York, mediation in bankruptcy cases is on the rise.
Increasingly, bankruptcy courts are using mediation to help manage their caseloads and to find solutions to the difficult issues that even the most skilled bankruptcy professionals struggle to resolve. At the same time, debtors are turning to mediation to avoid prolonged and expensive litigation.
Bankruptcy professionals are slowly changing their attitudes...
The 2013 report from Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts is out and it offers some insight into what’s to come.
While the case management/electronic case files system is already energizing the way federal courts manage cases and documents, the transition to a next generation of the CM/ECF system is well underway, promising even more efficiency and integration among the appellate, district, and bankruptcy systems; and creating greater consistency and enabling more case-related...
