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The holiday season’s upon us, and so are the gift cards. Merchants small and large are selling the colorful plastic cards. There are some $50 billion worth a year in gift cards sold by retailers in the U.S.. In healthier Read More

Don Main knows about rock music and he knows about pizza. As it turns out, Main may know a thing or two about debtors and bankruptcy as well. Main, a former rocker, is president and co-founder of Puccini’s Smiling Teeth Read More

I don’t work for CNBC, but apparently we have something in common – tracking business and job statistics in the state of Indiana. CNBC’s in the business of news, of course. As for me, I need to know what the Read More

Browsing in a bookstore the other day, I came across an unusual book title. The book was written by a professional speaker named Patti Hathaway who teaches companies how to prepare for and how to handle change. It’s called, “Untying Read More

When I titled one of my earlier blogs Super-Rich Or Bankrupt – You Could Be Anybody, I wasn’t far off the mark. Sometimes I think about the way life’s reversals can change everything, at least for awhile, even for the Read More

Cook County in neighboring Illinois has an angry sheriff. Two weeks ago, Sheriff Tom Dart ordered his deputies to stop evicting people from foreclosed properties they didn’t own, “because many are renters who did nothing wrong”. Dart told an Associated Read More

No sooner had I finished sharing with my bankruptcy blog readers the welcome news about social security benefits going up 5.8% next year, I read about a man who got a whole lot more than a 5.8% increase out of Read More

Only last week, seniors got good news: social security benefits are set to go up 5.8% in 2009. The last time there was an increase that large was before I started my Indiana bankruptcy law practice almost twenty-five years ago! Read More

In my mailbox the other day, along with the bills and flyers, I found a mini-magazine from Trader Joe’s. This was no mere catalogue with pictures and prices, I discovered leafing through it, but a collection of stories about the Read More

Since each state has its own bankruptcy-related laws, most folks trying to find out if and how laws used in bankruptcy would work for them ask me about Indiana, and overlook federal law. As a long-time Indiana bankruptcy lawyer, I Read More

Together for better or worse, job markets and bankruptcy are joined at the hip. On the negative side, breadwinners’ job loss has always proven to be a main driver of bankruptcy, along with uninsured medical catastrophes and divorce. It’s no Read More

In my ongoing effort to bring the very best and most up-to-date advice to my Indiana bankruptcy clients, I read. I read a lot, and I read many different publications, everything from daily newspapers and news magazines, to bankruptcy publications, Read More