On May 24, 2019, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, reviewing in an en banc rehearing, overruled a twenty-two-year-old decision of the court. In Hurlburt v. Black, No. 17-2449, 2019 WL 2237966 (4th Cir. May 24, 2019), the Court found that the Bankruptcy Code allows a debtor to modify select home mortgage claims. This decision…

We are excited to announce that Kathy Shakibi has joined our team! Kathy joins with over ten years of litigation experience and four years of in-house experience as house counsel with a default services law firm. Ms. Shakibi graduated cum laude from Whittier Law School. There, she was on the Dean’s honor list and received…

On April 25, 2017, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the “OCC”) published a decision that orders U.S. Bank National Association to pay a civil penalty of $15 million for bankruptcy filing violations. According to the OCC, the Bank committed various errors related to the requirements under Bankruptcy Rule 3002.1 including: untimely, not…

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