Twenty years ago this month, Soapbox’s parent website, Bankruptcy In Brief, went live with four pages of basic bankruptcy information. My law partner quietly thought writing about law for the internet was off base. My lawyer colleagues thought I was giving away the store. I persisted (which wasn’t then a catch phrase)  because I was […]

I tallied up reader favorites from the 2017 posts on Bankruptcy Soapbox.  The balloting is a bit unfair, since the fall and winter posts haven’t had the same exposure that posts from earlier in the year. But take note:  the runner up is only about 8 weeks old. Your favorites, in reverse order: 10.  Making […]

Equifax and the CFPB have teamed up, sort of, to focus attention on consumer rights when dealing with huge consumer businesses.  Equifax, alongside Wells Fargo of the millions of unauthorized bank accounts, want to limit their customers’ access to the legal system.  Their boilerplate agreements prohibit customers banding together in class actions, and lock individual […]

Half the US population may be affected by the hacking of credit reporting agency Equifax.  I’m in that group along with 143 million other Americans. Stolen were names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers.  Some credit card numbers were also lifted.  Everything an identity thief needs to ruin your financial life. Equifax is […]