bankruptcy. Lawyers advise debtors on whether to file the cheaper Chapter 7 filing or the more expensive, and more likely to be … dismissed, Chapter 13 filing. We show that bankruptcy courts that allow lawyers to charge more for Chapter 13 bankruptcy filings …

Now that most chapter 11 “reorganizations” are glorified asset sales in which the debtor uses bankruptcy to prepare … itself for auction, the design of sale procedures has become a paramount concern to bankruptcy practitioners and courts … bankruptcy auctions. Yet two recent decisions hold that a bankruptcy court may cram down a plan of reorganization that denies …