The University of West Los Angeles School of Law has formed a bankruptcy clinic which will focus on litigation aiming its efforts at those who have been sued and cannot afford an attorney.  The announcement is here.  I will be the leader to get it going.  To start, I will be at the self-help desk at the bankruptcy court in Woodland Hills this coming Friday November 3 and Friday December 1 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.  I will have a UWLA law student with me and will try to give some general advice on bankruptcy litigation to anyone who shows up.    UWLA students are being offered school credit for assisting the efforts for a semester.

No appointment or registration is necessary.  It will be first come first served.

Email this morning from Misty Perry Isaacson:

Good morning colleagues.  I hope you all had a wonderful time at the Ninth Circuit’s Judicial Conference in San Francisco last week.  For those of you who were unable to attend, we missed you.

Please see the attached Save the Date and Sponsorship flyers that I received from the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society (“NJCHS”) regarding their upcoming gala event set for September 26, 2017 at the City Club in Los Angeles.  Tickets and sponsorship are also available off their website.  Read more…

From Prof. Bob Lawless,

As you may have read, the American Bankruptcy Institute has announced the formation of a Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy (https://consumercommission.abi.org/). The Commission has been given the task of recommending improvements in consumer bankruptcy at all levels. Chaired by retired Bankruptcy Judges William Houston Brown and Elizabeth Perris, the Commission is composed of seventeen experts who broadly represent the various stakeholders in the consumer bankruptcy system. The Commission has been saddled with me as its reporter. The Commission will issue a final report in December 2018.

The Commission’s first public meeting will be held during the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys’ (NACBA) 2017 Annual Convention on May 6 from 8:00 AM – 10:30 AM in Oceanic Room 1 of the Walt Disney Dolphin Hotel, the conference hotel. The Commission invites interested persons to request time to make an oral statement at this public meeting, and in addition (or alternatively) to submit a written statement to the Commission. To request a time for a public statement or to send a written statement, please use the Commission’s public email address: ConsumerCommission@abiworld.org. (I monitor this account.) Read more…

From Judge Martin Barash

For those of you that may be interested in following the Ninth Circuit appeal of the TRO enjoining the President’s executive order regarding immigration, here’s a link to the public webpage containing the case docket. This page contains links to all of the legal briefs filed in the appeal–on all sides of the issue–as well as the orders of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The final reply brief of the government is due later today, at 3pm Pacific.

The link is here.