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21 Aug 2007, 4:30 am
As I reported previously, National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys President Henry Sommer submitted to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law a proposal recommending that the Bankruptcy Code be expanded to allow Chapter 13 [...] [read post]
21 May 2007, 2:19 pm
  Following NACBA President Henry Sommer's testimony before Congress on May 1, the U.S. [read post]
3 May 2007, 10:15 pm
Henry Sommer, the president of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, also argued that the law created too much unneeded documentation. [read post]
2 May 2007, 8:18 pm by Dean T. Kirby, Jr.
Henry Sommer, President of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, testified that increased costs "and the widespread misperception that bankruptcy is no longer available (aggravated by collection agent misrepresentations to consumers) are the primary reasons that bankruptcy case filings have declined so precipitously. [read post]
1 May 2007, 3:59 pm
Burroughs and the next witness, Henry Sommer (president of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys), proposed a simple solution -- Congress should restore the bankruptcy law to its original intent before the Supreme Court's decision in Nobelman. [read post]
1 May 2007, 3:00 pm
Government Accountability Office Henry Sommer, attorney and president of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys. [read post]
17 Apr 2007, 2:29 pm
  Henry Sommer, President of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA) has repeatedly pointed out both that the rush to file before the law changed in the fall of 2005 absorbed a large number of people who would otherwise have filed in 2006 (and unnaturally raised 2005 filings) and that many people are under the misapprehension that they are no longer able to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.Quarterly filings, as always, tell a different story. [read post]
15 Apr 2007, 8:18 pm
As a result, more homeowners with subprime loans are forced to walk away from the homes, according to NACBA president Henry Sommer. [read post]
7 Dec 2006, 1:12 pm
"  NACBA President Henry Sommer went on to say that "No credible person in the field seriously disputs the fact that the bankruptcy law changes have been a spectacular flop. [read post]
20 Oct 2006, 1:47 am
"The National Association of Bankruptcy Attorneys says "phooey" to reform and points out that consumer bankruptcies are on the rise, costs are up, administrative burdens are increased, and, in the words of the association's president, Henry Sommer, "[t]he only thing Congress succeeded in doing when it adopted the 2005 bankruptcy amendments was to erect new hurdles in the path of people who legitimately and often desperately need the bankruptcy system,… [read post]
4 Oct 2006, 2:29 pm
Henry Sommer, President of NACBA, points out that the means test, intended to screen out abuses, has instead demonstrated that the credit industry's ten-year lobby was misguided. [read post]
14 Jul 2006, 2:39 pm
NACBA was represented by Peter Rubin and Henry Sommer, and CBA by Tom Gugliotti and Barry Fiegenbaum. [read post]
12 Dec 2005, 9:12 am
" Roadblocks to filing The difficulty in finding lawyers to handle bankruptcies pro bono has become a big national problem, said Henry Sommer, president of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys. [read post]
9 Dec 2005, 1:53 pm
Thus a house which might have been protected under a homestead exemption rule is lost, said Henry Sommer, president of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys. [read post]
18 Oct 2005, 5:38 pm by Legal Talk Network
Our special guests are Attorney Henry Sommer, a leading authority on consumer bankruptcy and Editor-in-Chief of Collier on Bankruptcy from Philadelphia and Attorney Gibson Pagter, Jr. a bankruptcy lawyer from the firm Pagter and Miller, APLC, of Santa Ana, California. [read post]
18 Oct 2005, 5:38 pm
Our special guests are Attorney Henry Sommer, a leading authority on consumer bankruptcy and Editor-in-Chief of Collier on Bankruptcy from Philadelphia and Attorney Gibson Pagter, Jr. a bankruptcy lawyer from the firm Pagter and Miller, APLC, of Santa Ana, California. [read post]