For up-to-date information about pending bankruptcy
legislation, visit THOMAS
- legislative information on the web provided by the Library
of Congress.
US
Bankruptcy Law - Bankruptcy code courtesy of the Legal
Information Institute of Cornell Law School.
Internet
Bankruptcy Library hosted by Bankruptcy Creditors' Service,
Inc. has news about bankruptcy filings, on-line bankruptcy
discussion groups, conferences, publications, resources material,
and more.
American
Bankruptcy Institute - Comprehensive information about
legislative news related to bankruptcy, bankruptcy statistics,
judges' opinions, bankruptcy code and analysis. ABI is "the
nation's largest multi-disciplinary, non-partisan organization
dedicated to research and education on matters related to
insolvency." ABI publishes a newsletter 10 times per year,
distributed to ABI members.
New Generation Research's Bankruptcy
Yearbook & Almanac contains data about bankruptcy filings,
corporate statistics and more. Some information in the publication
is available on site. Also see BankruptcyData.com.
BankruptcySales.com
allows trustees and debtors to post listings of assets being
offered for sale.
Aspen Publishers is a leading information provider for attorneys, business professionals and law students. Written by preeminent authorities, Aspen products offer analytical and practical information in a range of specialty practice areas from securities law and intellectual property to mergers and acquisitions and pension/benefits. Aspen’s trusted legal education resources provide professors and students with high-quality, up-to-date and effective resources for successful instruction and study in all areas of the law.
CCH was founded in 1913 and has served more than four generations of business professionals and their clients. The CCH products in the Wolters Kluwer Law & Business group are highly regarded electronic and print resources for legal, securities, antitrust and trade regulation, government contracting, banking, pension, payroll, employment and labor, and healthcare reimbursement and compliance professionals.
Lois Law is a premier provider of digitized legal content to small law firm practitioners of various specializations. Loislaw provides attorneys with the ability to quickly and efficiently find the necessary legal information they need, when and where they need it, by facilitating access to primary law as well as state-specific law, records, forms and treatises.
Bankruptcy Organizations, Committees
and Discussion Groups
The Commercial
Law League of America claims to be America's oldest creditors'
rights organization. Their site contains a special update
on the final report of the Bankruptcy Review Commission and
other bankruptcy info.
Bankruptcy Roundtable is an e-mail discussion
group for bankruptcy attorneys to exchange information and
ideas. To be added to this group, simply send an e-mail message
to listserve@bankrupt.com
with "subscribe roundtable", without the quotes, in the message.
This discussion group is not for debtors.
Bankruptcy ListServe is another e-mail discussion
group, and is a very good resource for bankruptcy attorneys.
To subscribe to this group, simply send an e-mail message
to listproc@polecat.law.indiana.edu
with "subscribe bankrlaw", without the quotes, in the message.
This discussion group is not for debtors.
The U.S.
Trustee Program is part of the Department of Justice,
and oversees administration of bankruptcy cases. Their site
contains information about the U.S. Trustee program and the
bankruptcy system.
The National
Association of Bankruptcy Trustees is a non-profit organization
created to "address the needs of the bankruptcy trustees throughout
the country and to promote the effectiveness of the bankruptcy
system as a whole." Their site contains information about
their organization, news of upcoming seminars, links to legislative
information about bankruptcy, and a listserv and library for
members only.
The National
Association of Chapter Thirteen Trustees is an organization
"dedicated to promoting education and professionalism in the
chapter thirteen bankruptcy community." Their site provides
a forum for discussion of chapter thirteen issues and legislation
and contains their newsletters in PDF format.
The American
Board of Certification certifies attorneys as specialists
in business bankruptcy, consumer bankruptcy and creditors'
rights law. It is a non-profit organization, sponsored by
The American Bankruptcy Institute and The Commercial Law League
of America, dedicated to serving the public and improving
the quality of bankruptcy and creditors' rights law bars.
