Mm, it’s good.

When a senior law professor asks to see what you’re working on

The best movies are bankruptcy movies.

Judge Fagone (Bankr. D. Me.) and Eric Brunstad Jr. spoke on Appellate Trends at the ABI Conference at Bretton Woods last week. I got to sit amidst the stars and say a few words about discharge exceptions and solvent debtors. High-octane stuff for 8am!

My first time in Ann Arbor, for the Junior Scholars Conference at the University of Michigan. I met amazing people, got great feedback on my Jubilee essay, and found some windows with little depictions of Bankruptcy and Contracts!

UPDATE: My old firm, WilmerHale, just filed an 11-count, 63-page complaint against 52 defendants: the Executive Office of the President, the DOJ, a host of federal agencies, and cabinet-level officials (everyone but Trump and Vance).

It's submission season! This Essay is out looking for a good home in a law review. papers.ssrn.com/abstract=510...

It's been an encouraging and mind-blowing couple of months. The ABI inducted me into its 40 Under 40 cohort. My paper "Bankruptcy Fiduciaries" was named as a co-winner of the AALS Scholarly Papers competition. And my senior colleagues at Florida Law voted to promote me to Associate Professor [1/2]

💡New paper! People kept asking me what happens when defamation defendants like Rudy Giuliani and Alex Jones file for bankruptcy. So I wrote a little piece about it, now forthcoming in the Journal of Free Speech Law. [1/2]

Guys, if you teach Contracts, care about consumers, or just need a Wednesday Giggle, look up the House of Illuminati's "Willy's Chocolate Experience" in Glasgow.

💕 Did you know Valentine’s Day has a bankruptcy angle? The New England Confectionary Company (NECCO) makes the famous candy hearts. In 2018, the company filed for bankruptcy in Massachusetts and was purchased by Spangler Candy of Ohio. The oldest American candy exists today thanks to chapter 11! 💕

The art would get even better if a “true owner” shows up.

For any Contracts Profs teaching Dougherty v. Salt today, I offer this translation into Gen Z.

Great discussion at @ncbj_conf about whether bankruptcy is all about the bottom line. We, er, did not agree, but I think we conveyed some practical wisdom. Thanks to Jeff Bast and Mette Kurth for organizing, and to Judge Robson for presiding. Danielle Reyes and Hamid Rafatjoo, ready for Round 2?

🥳🎉🎊 CONGRATS to this amazing lady, who finished a crushing year as a PA Surgical Resident. Cecilia knows how to do things in the OR that I cannot even fathom! I saw her get up at 4am every day for 80-100+ hour weeks. No idea how she did it. Hubby and kiddos are super proud ☺️

And that's a wrap on the inaugural WHIRC conference hosted by Wharton, Harvard Law, and the amazingly hospitable David Skeel, Vince Buccola, Jared Ellias & Mark Roe.